Port Aransas News

CONTRIBUTED PHOTO The Vent Comedy Club, located inside Gators, 4610 S. Padre Island Drive, will host comedian Todd Larson featuring Johnny Luna at 8 and 10 p.m. today.

All classes must be prepaid. Information: artcenter@centurytel.net or www.portaransasartcenter.org SCREENINGS: Life Line Stroke and Osteoporosis Screenings will be held Wednesday at Bay Area Hospital, 7101 S. Padre Island Drive.

BOLIVAR: Trout are fair to good on the south shoreline on slow-sinking plugs. Black drum, sheepshead and redfish are good at Rollover Pass on fresh shrimp.

Charlie is a member of Team Oso Hardcore Wade Fishing Club. Call 361-939-9830 or visit www.teamoso.com.Reach Chad at 361- 463-6545 or www.rockportredrunner.com.Reach Frankie at 361-701-7711 or captfra We've seen schools of black drum moving back onto the flats lately, probably because of warmer bays.

Galveston City Manager Michael Kovacs talks with a city employee in his office at city hall Friday afternoon.

TODD YATES/CALLER-TIMES Johnny Lopez, an employee at North Shore Boat Works in Ingleside, brushes on epoxy resin on the Harbor Ferry boat Independence to seal support beams replaced due to water damage.

FREEPORT: Sand trout and sheepshead are good on live shrimp on the reefs. Redfish are fair to good at San Luis pass on cracked blue crabs.

Cost: $35/person. Information: 361-729-7555. MERCHANTS DINE: Port A Merchants Dine Around is from 5 to 10 p.m. Monday in Port Aransas.

CONTRIBUTED PHOTOS Eighteen boats from the Bay Yacht Club sailed from Corpus Christi to the Port Aransas marina Jan.

The Mission-Aransas National Estuarine Research Reserve Coastal Training Program will hold "Climate Change Communication," a workshop at the University of Texas Marine Science Institute in Port Aransas.

Contributed Photo A Scat Cat party boat out of Fisherman's Wharf in Port Aransas recently returned from a 56-hour offshore trip with 72 yellowfin tuna, 120 blackfin tuna, about 450 vermilion snapper and a 167-pound mako shark.

In Port Aransas, two men are arrested and charged with robbery. Christopher Shaw, 28, of Port A and James Mason Junior, 31, of Ingleside were taken into custody Tuesday in connection to a home invasion and robbery that happened back in November 2011 at a vacation home in Port Aransas.

NORTH SABINE: Trout are fair to good on the Louisiana shoreline on topwaters and Corkies.

South Texas Real Estate Appraisers are invited to a luncheon program to discuss Department of Veterans Affairs changes at 11:45 a.m. at Silverado Smokehouse .

NORTH SABINE: Redfish are good in the marsh on small topwaters and Stanley Ribbits.

The $4 million grant will fund a five-year study to better understand the microscopic algae that produces ciguatera toxins, focusing on the Gulf of Mexico and the Caribbean.