Captain Kev's Archived Blogs
A Guide To Birding Sites In And Around Corpus Christi Texas
4/16/12: Laguna Light Texas Wader 2 and others
4/20/12: Notes on choosing soft plastic colors
5/7/12: The Ethics of Deposits
5/15/12: How I Carry My Stuff When Wading
5/17/12: A New and Perfect Ending
5/28/12: How Best to Use Prop Baits
5/30/12: Some Strange Fishing Pictures and Why I Like Them (Or don't)
6/8/12: PENDING STATE RECORD TROUT!!!!!
6/16/12: Excerpt from my "book in progress"
6/25/12: Tips on using the Power Pole
7/11/12: Description of Productive Places and Patterns
7/13/12: A Reaction To an Article on Lure Color and Fishes' Eyes
7/29/12: Another Note on Guiding Ethics
8/11/12: A Seminar on The Effects of Timing in Trout Fishing
8/18/12: '13 Book About to Open, But Don't Forget December
8/27/12: New Colors of Paul Brown's Original Lures
9/3/12: An Inadvertent Experiment Showing the Negative Potential of Bad Scents
9/17/12: Testimonial about my new book
"Think Like A Pro" Test (35 questions, Updated 10/24/12)
10/2/12: Preliminary response to trout tracking study
10/21/12: Purchasing the right waders and other winter-wading equipment
10/21/12: New Classified Ads page and solicitation of blog topic suggestions
10/23/12: Resisting the Temptation to Jump the Gun on Autumn Patterns
11/1/12: Problems related to my hard drive crashing
11/1/12: A Bucket List of Spots for Fanatics
11/6/12: Comments About On The Water Etiquette
11/12/12: Alternative Ways for CCA to Run the Trout Division of the STAR
11/15/12: CCA Pledges Money for a Research Facility at A&M Corpus
11/21/12: Several Common Mistakes
12/4/12: Boat and Motor Maintenance Tips
12/5/12: A Creative Way to Give a Little Back
12/9/12: The Solo, The SSteel Split Ring Pliers and Open Dates
12/11/12: Response to an article about starving black drum
12/17/12: Guest blog: questions about fishing channel edges
1/2/13: Responses to questions about fishing channel edges
1/3/13: Product review for Mojo Sportswear Company Jacket
1/5/13: It's Cold and I Bet I Know What's Coming!
1/8/13: Holy Grail Gyotaku paintings finished and for sale!
1/8/13: Keeper Series of Gyotaku prints now for sale
1/12/13: Testimonial from purchaser of Keeper #1 and #6
1/26/13: Guest blog by Heather Nicholson regarding newly available poster art
Click on the titles below to view the PDF files from which the pieces of poster art are made:
1/27/13: Congratulating Jason King and commenting on trout tournament formats
2/1/13: New titles I recently earned
2/7/13: Participation in Eyes on the Islands Program
2/24/23: A discussion and list of Corkies I can't do without
3/24/13: Heartbreaker Gyotaku series of paintings finished and for sale!
3/25/13: Thanking Brandon Brehm for clarifying a concept related to using Corkies
3/30/13: Guest blog from a Virginia angler on a creative way to improve presentation skills
3/31/13: Proving a point about fishing on a day when signs of life are absent
4/13/13: Dates and times for scheduled Monster Maps seminars...seats available
4/29/13: A story with a point and a question
5/3/13: Two men catch the same 30-incher twice within a week
5/14/13: Customer Sheldon Arey mentions a potential solution to hypersalinity in Baffin
5/27/13: Information on new lures in the MirrOlure family
5/29/13: Disturbing and encouraging news about nesting sites in Mesquite Bay
6/20/13: Introduction to my new book: Captain Kevin Cochran's Top 50
6/20/13: Invitation to Five Fundamentals seminars to be held in August and September
6/29/13: Water quality and fishing improved recently in Baffin
7/10/13: New and Confusing State Law Prohibiting Uprooting Seagrass
7/16/13: Customer Tim Balin provides a welcome testimonial for the new book
7/24/13: New book to be available at several retail establishments
7/24/13: Jason King's story of the big one that got away
8/3/13: Comments and ideas during the Dog Days
8/3/13: Lessons we can glean from wading birds and a reference to a video
8/8/13: Brett McDanald wins the Chupacabra Outdoor's CPR photo contest!
8/13/13: Excitement over a discovery of a Laguna rod's versatility
8/22/13: Picture of a transparent trout
8/26/13: 2014 Book to open 9/1/13
9/3/13: Great idea for enhancing fishing log entries
9/10/13: Reference to a study on the potentially damaging effects of the Boga Grip
9/10/13: Dates set for upcoming seminars on fishing with Corkies
9/19/13: Thoughts about Kevin Van Dam's comments about the "best" fishing line
10/1/13: Special discounted rate for October charters
10/3/13: Click here view a cool short video on the importance of large fish
10/3/13: Ad shows customer Brett Macdanald winning Chupacrbra Outdoors CPR contest
10/14/13: Maximizing the Use of a Boga Grip
10/22/13: Introducing the South Texas Signature Birds series of prints--Now finished!
10/30/13: Copies of Tricking Texas Trout, Second Edition have arrived!
11/1/13: Product review for Salt Life Sunglasses
11/11/13: Product review for Academy H2O Express reel
11/17/13: State to solicit input related to speckled trout fishery again
11/24/13: Testimonial from a participant in this weekend's Corky seminar
11/27/13: 2014 Calendars made from the South Texas Signature Birds paintings
11/29/13: PDF used to make South Texas Signature Birds Calendars 2014
12/10/13: South Texas Signature Birds Note Card Sets have arrived!
12/10/13: Click here to access a coupon worth $50 off a Laguna Custom Rod
12/11/13: My new filet knife, the Bubba Blade, is "One Bad Ass Knife"
12/29/13: Angler Matt McCollum's record catch
1/2/14: Data related to Jason King's big trout caught since 2009
1/6/14: Give your opinions to TP&W on trout limits and flounder regs by clicking here.
1/6/14: The email I sent to Art Morris about the state's proposed changes to trout regs
1/21/14: Friend Jason King, Customer Matt McCollum and I on the cover of TSF Mag
1/23/14: Update on TP&W's proposals regarding changes to trout limits
1/28/14: Wanting to do more commissioned paintings
2/19/14: Update on the reels I've been using
2/26/14: The "pending state record trout" pic phenomenon rises again
3/19/14: Musings on the year's events to this point
4/3/14: State adopts 5-fish trout limit effective September 1st
4/24/14: Lessons gleaned from last winter's results
5/9/14: Seminar Season is here! Possible Monster Maps dates
5/22/14: Monster Maps seminar date set--Big Lessons seminar described
6/12/14: Update on finalized seminar dates
6/26/14: Special Pre-production offer on my new DVD: Primetime Trout Tactics
6/27/14: Description of my new Blu-ray movie: Spring Migration 2014
7/1/14: Part One of a Two-Part Guest Blog by Jason King
7/7/14: Part Two of a Guest Blog by Jason King
8/11/14: On Bacteria and Boating Safety
8/18/14: Special offer on North America's Iconic Birds 2015 Calendar
9/8/14: Strategies for coping with bull tides in Autumn
10/17/14: Six Birds of Sea and Shore Postcard Sets
11/3/14: Comments about recently productive patterns
11/4/14: Comments on using HomePort
12/15/14: Update on the fishing and dates available
12/23/14: Introducing Wing Nut's Quest, my new HD Video
1/10/15: Using a concept of "thirds" to locate fish
2/25/15: Technique and Pattern which produced yesterday's Nine Pounder
2/27/15: Customer Welcome Letter with Lurelist
5/9/15: Guest blog identifies NOAA web link useful for monitoring water quality, etc.
6/4/15: Letter regarding future funding for the TCOON Buoy system
6/23/15: Link to an article describing speckled trout spawning habits
to proceed directly to the speckled trout article, click here
7/23/15: Comments on some of the best wading accessories I've found--ForEverLast
8/24/15: 2016 Book opens 9/1--Remember December!
9/23/15: Special offer on 2016 Songbirds Calendars
to view all images used to make the 2016 Songbirds Calendars, click here
10/7/15: About the new line of "high value" Laguna Rods--Laguna Liquid Series
10/19/15: Reminders about some early cold-season basics for big trout
12/31/15: Partial list of Operating Principles I Use on a daily basis
1/2/16: Complete list of the 306 species of birds I identified in the field in 2015
1/22/16: Link to a video showing trout feeding at night
1/22/16: Comments on video referenced above
3/12/16: Monster Maps and More now for sale separate from CAFBULM
4/10/16: Four new questions for the Think Like a Pro Test (answers at bottom of page)