By Capt. Mike Williams
A lot of days, when it’s cold, wet and raining like today, these events take place a lot, in Galveston’s cafe’s, coffee shops, and bait camps…a group of mostly older men sit around and tell tall tales of past fishing adventures that have taken place over many years of fishing the Galveston Bay complex or the Gulf of Mexico. Some of the stories can be hard
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Tall Tale from Tarpon Alley
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MirrOlure Field Tester
By Capt. Mike Williams
After I had MirrOlure make the first factory made 51M series lure and was on board as field tester, I decided to do what they wanted me to do, which was design and field test lures; then see if that lure would take trout in the surf and bays of the Galveston Bay complex. One cold winter night I had to go the store for my wife…it was late and nobody was in
MirrOlure testing
By Capt. Mike Williams
When I was a Mirrolure field tester, my job was to design and field test different lures. In the sixties and seventies, that company already had lures that worked well in our bays and surfs. In that time period, two of my favorite go-to lures was the “legendary classic” 52M28 and the “trophy trout killer” 52 MSHP. I came on board with Mirrolure in 1980, and the
I had a dream
By Capt. Mike Williams
When people get old they have take a lot of medicine for one thing or another. Sometimes the medicine can make a person have bad dreams at night, but some nights those same medicines might produce a good dream. A while, back I had a great dream that lasted all night until I woke up the next morning. I could see this dream very clearly and it
The Last Tide Out
By Capt. Mike Williams
December 21, 1983 I was working as a field tester for MirrOlure on different color patterns and also on rattlers that would later come the R series in a MirrOlure. I was fishing with another man and we stated fishing at daylight. The air temperature that day was in the low seventies and the tide came in most of the morning; we were able to catch
Rollover fishing – Year in review
By Capt. Mike Williams, Tarpon Express
Well, it’s almost Christmas. I think overall 2014 will go down in the records books as just a fair year as far as fishing. The brightest fishing which improved in 2014 for me was the flounder fishing. It seems to me the two-fish limit at the peak of the migration in November helps or is helping the overall catches for most people fishing for flounder. I told a man
