Rob Lord had scheduled a flats trip with me this past Tuesday to fish on Saturday. A few days later we were looking at hurricane force winds.We weren't quite sure if we were going to fish by Thursday evening but I told Rob to wait and see what Friday brings. There wasn't that much rain associated with the storm and by Friday evening the tide had fallen to normal levels. I drove out to the marsh West of Bridge City and the water looked great so we decided to fish the next day. Now my concern is the wind forecast that went from Northerly @ 7 mph to Northerly@ 10 to 15 mph. I am so glad we didn't cancel the trip. We boated 8 or 9 Reds and had 1 Flounder to the boat that might have kept this morning. We missed another 4 or so Reds during the trip. All were rat Reds from 12 to 19 inches except for one 26 inch 6 lb. beauty Rob caught early on in the trip. The wind was light in the morning with a beautiful sun rise but kept building after 10:00am. The Reds didn't seem to care as we caught fish from right after day light up until around 11:00am. We called it quits around noon as the bite had slowed way down. We may have caught another bite around 2:00pm when the tide should have really started falling but we didn't. The fish hit Zoom horny toads in the morning but after the sun got up we switched to a Strike king spinner bait the rest of the trip. Rob had brought his mother Patsy along so she could enjoy the scenery and maybe catch a fish or two. The Red she caught had several beautiful spots on it's body.I had to work until midnight Friday and was worried about being tired, it's funny how a good bite can rejuvenate the soul. I really had a good day with Patsy and Rob and was glad to see the marsh survived the Hurricane. Tight lines, Mike