2015 Easter ditch fishing safari

[burbotman]

The annual trip to the Houston area to visit family just wrapped up. As nice as it is to see family, my son and I have turned it into a ditch fishing safari. For those not familiar with the municiple districts south of Houston, they have a network of drainage ditches to handle runoff. Many hold water year round and host an amazing variety of fish, over the years we have caught gar, carp, bass, tilapia, sunfish, cichlids, turtles and snakes.

Here are some pics from this year

Edit-PM to mods to move to fishing forum

[double gun]

Cool, that looks like a lot of fun.

[burbotman]

Cool, that looks like a lot of fun.

I have quite a number of fish pictures to add but I will wait until the thread is moved

[Tundra Monkey]

Ha....well played!!!

I never would have seen this if you put it in the fishing section.

Reminds me to do my yearly scroll in there :happy0180:

[the local angler]

i wish i had that kind of a back yard.

[burbotman]

Some pics, start with LMB. Very common catch, top water frogs are lots of fun

[burbotman]

Bass

[burbotman]

Lots of cats, nothing big but very common

[burbotman]

Some big sunfish

[burbotman]

Cool catch this year, Texas cichlids

[burbotman]

My favorite fish to chase down there, Spotted gar.
100% sight fishing. Lots of small ones

[burbotman]

And some bigger ones

[burbotman]

And finally, just to keep a person honest.... As if water moccasins were not enough :)

[Gary K]

Well looks like I know what I'm doing next time in in Houston !

cool pics, crazy catch with the cichlid!

[burbotman]

Well looks like I know what I'm doing next time in in Houston !

cool pics, crazy catch with the cichlid!

The cichlids were quite the surprise, we caught 6 the one morning.

Pretty well any standing water down there holds fish

[pipco]

Thanx for posting. Cool variety!

[the local angler]

i think you are one of the luckiest fisherman now, such and incredible diverse species at your back yard.

[burbotman]

i think you are one of the luckiest fisherman now, such and incredible diverse species at your back yard.

Would be nice, it is only an annual trip each spring.