150 lb silver kings on the palace flat, sight-casting from a poling skiff. Fly-fishing equivalent of a hole-in-one at Augusta.
The palace flat. 150 lb silver kings cruising gin-clear water. Al Dopirak on the platform, the groom on the bow. Plantation on Crystal River for the decompression.
Sight-cast redfish in the Aransas Bay flats with Baffin Bay Fly Fishing, poling skiffs at dawn across gin-clear water. Lunch at The Boiling Pot in Port Aransas—raw oysters, crab claws, cold beer. Three nights in Airstreams at Lazy A RV Park, fire pit dinners, dawn departures. Final evening at Rockport Seafood for blackened snapper and whiskey on the bay.