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No, It Ain’t All About Money
This past Saturday, March 19, 2011, a total of 501 volunteers joined together in removing forty-four tons of trash between...
Billy Sandifer
Capt. Billy is a local fishing guide, birder, & conservationist on the Texas barrier island "Padre Island." He focuses on improving conservation of natural resources and enjoys spreading his knowledge to others. He is known as the "Padre of Padre Island", and has organized the local "The Big Shell Beach Clean Up" for 14 years. He has received the Conservation & Environmental Stewardship Award by the Coastal Bend Bays Foundation.
Current Events Bring Back Old Memories
Well, if you are alive to read this we have survived another winter. I'm supposed to be sight-casting to tarpon...
March Beach Cleanups and Other Good Things
Well, I wrote last month's article on the great late-December trip with the Hanson family of El Campo and if...
Good Day or Horrible Day - Your Choice
The right rear corner of my exhaust manifold is broken and boy does that Suburban ever get loud when fighting...
Time of the Starving Moon
When you mention jack crevalle to saltwater fishermen you can rest assured you will get an immediate reaction but till...
The Passing of a Brother and Concern for Sharks
On Saturday, 09 October, my shark fishing mentor and brother in spirit of thirty-four years, Karl Boardman, passed on at...
What We Know and What We Think We Know
It has been too hot for too long and I eagerly await the cold front that is forecast to come...
Water Temps, Tagging Surf Trout, and Unusual Developments on PINS
Every now and then I write about the cold offshore currents that impact the beaches of Padre Island National Seashore....
“Yeah, I Read it But I Just Don't Care.”
The past eighteen months have been some of the poorest fishing I have ever experienced and likewise it has been...
A Puzzle and Family
I have always told everyone that all good things come from the sea in June. The fact is that I...
