7-16-09

There was lots of action both on and off the water here on the Redneck Riviera. I did 2 cooking demonstrations for the deaf and hearing impaired. The first one was for the senior group.

I called to the Kiolbassa Sausage folks in San Antonio and told them what I was doing and they sent them all $5 coupons for their sausage.

Then Friday we did the youth group…

When they surveyed the kids they said they would rather have a cooking demo than go to the aquarium. That really made me feel special and I was glad I could get them coupons also.

I shared recipes and they ate up all the demonstrated recipes.

There will be lots more pictures on the website http://www.buddysblends.com/ later…all that cooking made me hungry for some more fish…so

And the son caught one only its mother could love.




The all filleted up good and I will probably work in another demo for the senior group featuring fish.


For those that voted for the dessert thanks and you can keep voting till the 19th once a day Red White and Blue Contest. It is the Red White & Blue Rice Cream Sundae and it sure was a hit with the kids down here. Sorry yall I didn’t know there was some kind of sign up to vote and I won’t ever get in one of that contest again. I will give the prize money to the Deaf and Hearing Impaired Center here in Corpus to help them out a little. I have a post on the site back about page 12 that says so too.

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7-1-09

Well it has been awhile since the last report and I don’t want folks to think that we have stopped catching fish because of the heat down here.


The mangrove snapper have really been thick and there are not enough people helping WhoDaMan and SonOfDaMan with catches of the fish.

I now have evidence that the mangrove are eating up the stone crabs.

No wonder these fish taste so good all they eat is stone crabs and shrimp.

WhoDaMan was asked by the city of Corpus Christi to do some cooking demonstrations.

There wasn’t an empty seat in the room…everyone must have enjoyed the food cuz there weren’t any samples left.

WhoDaMan, WifeOfDaMan and DaughterOfDaMan took a little side trip to Pennsylvania to visit some of the relatives that weren’t born south of the Mason Dixon Line.

Real pretty country up there and it was like some one left the AC on as there was frost one morning the 1st week of June…we didn’t even have a frost in the middle of winter here on the Redneck Riviera.

I had to drinks some of their beer just because of the name.


Their driving leaves a little to be desired…look at this horse drawn wagon tailgating this camper…I don’t think any of them were warring seatbelts either…

Well most of the butterflies are heading north on their spring migration.


Yep all of those little black dots and the big yellow smears are butterflies.

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5-20-09

Son of Da Man is taking Father In Law of Da Man AKA Grand Paw of Son of Da Man crawfishing with him...he said it beats playing dominoes...they will start catfishing next week...he will add rod holders to his walker so he can fish 3-4 rods (hey its another limit)

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12-5-08

Just because there hasn’t been a report in awhile doesn’t mean we are not still out there taking care of any wildlife imbalances. WhoDaMan with his faithful companion SonOfDaMan were called on once again by the Texas Parks & Wildlife Department or TPWD for short to take care of a mangrove snapper population that had gotten completely out of hand and was ravaging the shrimp population of Corpus Christi Bay or CCB for short.

I called the local newspaper to report that we were the only volunteers that showed up to help out the shrimp on CCB

The local outdoors writer said he would help so we went back out and did it to them again.

Sometimes you discover your ice chest is not quite big enough.

I noticed a Navy Veteran and asked him if he had caught anything.

He said no so we gave him some fish and ice…he looked me in the eye and said “God Bless You Mister”. I told him he had and I was sharing the blessing…and “God Bless You for protecting our country”…we shook hands and I wished he had a bigger ice chest.

SonOfDaMan was not quite satisfied with catching gar with rod and real so he has started hand lining them.

We ended up catching 4 of them this way.

Besides giving fish to the veteran some also went to a widow in the church which she really appreciated as she hasn’t been fishing in awhile. This helped make more room in the freezer so we can keep going too.

A report showed up in the paper about some of our adventures and can be viewed at
http://www.caller.com/news/2008/nov/23/a-day-on-the-bay/ make sure you look at the photo gallery for the article.

The duck season split is happening now and by the time it opens we should have a fowl report (pardon the pun). SonOfDaMan has volunteered to assist me in finding ambush spots for the white bass migration that should start happening soon. More pictures are on the http://www.etoepfer.texfly.com/ website.

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11-10-08

Hunting season has started and that leaves most of the water to WhoDaMan and SonOfDaMan. The day started off with a real nice sunrise signaling that the catch would be good. Just like the old saying “Red at Dawn Fish Take Warn” or something like that.

We started our assault in the downtown area where there was a mixed catch waiting for us.

Yep down here on the Redneck Riviera there is a new definition of “Tail Gate Party”

Mangrove snapper, specs, galftop and drum with a few skipjack thrown in.

I told SonOfDaMan that we should take the skipjack and head to the river as the Texas Parks & Wildlife Department or TPWD for short reported that there was low baitfish counts being registered…I suspected gar and I was right.

There were so many that we were catching’m 2 at a time on double drop rigs.

Long rods and heavy line were the combination from keeping them from making it to the rail road track or RRT’s and breaking us off.

SonOfDaMan is shown here hoisting what may be the largest stinger weight wise that the Fish Slicker Stringer Company has ever had load tested.

WhoDaMan didn’t really have anything to prove so I didn’t hold the stringer up for my picture. As SonOfDaMan said “They aren’t the biggest gar we have ever caught so we made up with it by catch a bunch”…That’s my boy. Keep what you catch and pretty soon you too will have a freezer full. More pictures are on the http://www.etoepfer.texfly.com/ website.

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10-27-08‏

Well its been too long since the last Redneck Riviera Report. Back tracking a little DaughterOfDaMan and WhoDaMan went to the International Rice Festival placing with all 8 of our dishes in the 4 categories.

We did not feel the love from the local competitors or judges and cannot wait till next year for the Texas Rice Festival.

And now for the outdoors portion of the report…SonOfDaMan and I were finally able to get all the lights arranged and on line powered with the new hurricane generator I bought. Flounder showed up the 1st night along with huge schools of bait fish.


We also found ourselves along with the bait being attacked by cutlass fish.

After loosing a number of really good hooks we went back armed with wire leaders and did a number on them.


I confirmed with Texas A&M and they built a machine in the 70’s to fillet them.

I used a machine developed in the 80’s and did it myself.

They have some really nasty teeth so be careful.

We have tried them pan fried a couple of different way as well as sashimi style. So come on down while they are still biting (pardon the pun) and get you a bunch. It wont cost as much to get home cuz gas is down to $1.92 a gallon in Portland across the bridge.

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10-1-08

WhoDaMan has not lost track of his responsibilities to the wildlife of the Redneck Riviera. SonOfDaMan reported catching alligator gar and redfish in the same spot. I was afraid there might be some breeding activity between the two species and went to check it out. We missed several gar strikes that afternoon and as the tide picked up in the river I hooked this redfish.

SonOfDaMan snapped this picture just as the red was lunging for my throat. Fortunately its teeth became entangled in the massive amount of chest hair I have which kept it from ripping out my jugular veins. I used an old trick from the Greek octopus fisherman and bit it between the eyes to kill it. I thought it best not to publish these pictures as it wasn’t a pretty sight. This proves how aggressive hybrids can be. On an earlier trip SonOfDaMan tangled with this alligator gar.

Sorry about the bad photography on my part as the spots on the tail (very similar to a redfish’s spots) didn’t show up. The dynamic duo will be heading to Choke Canyon on Thursday evening for some night fishing to be followed up with a morning of water thrashing. More reports as they happen or close to it.

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