Corpusfishing.com

ThisIsTheLife · Finger Mullet Joined: 17 Jul 2014 Posts: 20

I'm looking to take my niece and nephew when they come to visit, Anyone know where to go tide pooling around the Corpus area?

wannafish · Posted: Mon May 25, 2015 12:55 pm Post subject:

What is "tidepooling" Question

ThisIsTheLife · Finger Mullet Joined: 17 Jul 2014 Posts: 20

its going at low tide to look in tide pools for different crabs, fish, sea stars, different creatures like that.

anyone know locations of any good tide pool areas down here?

landlocked beachbum · Posted: Mon May 25, 2015 1:25 pm Post subject:

Tide pooling like you're speaking of takes rocky shoreline for the most part. Good luck on the Texas coast! Sand, sand and sand.....

I used to love going to Laguna Beach when I was in 5th grade. I could spend all day in the pools. Same thing in Hawaii when there was no swell worth surfing. Wink

_________________
Dave

"The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has it's limits". Albert Einstein

ltorna1 · Full Grown Flour Bluffian Joined: 17 Apr 2009 Posts: 3240

Such a fun time, but like Landlocked said, not a lot of natural tide-pools here.

There are a few other cool things that you could do with kiddos that will get them hands-on with the marine life here.

1. visit fishpass jetties and north packery. If its nice you can snorkel, but its not the clearest its not you work around the rocks and scrape them below the low tide-mark with a fine mesh dipnet and see what critters are growing on the rocks. You can usually get cool barnacles, little fish like blennies, and little crabs.

2. if you come in the late spring early summer, you can go to the surf and scoop up some floating sargassum and sort through it. You can find all kinds of juvenile fish including seahorses, pipefish, sargassumfish, and neat crabs. Go on youtube and search "mahi girl is eating well", and see whats out there Smile

There is usually a huge accumulation of sargassum at the base of the south Port A jetty.

3. Get a small bait seine net and pull it through the seagrass beds in the Laguna madre. They may sell one at roys or academy. Plenty of seagrass beds along laguna shores road or the JFK causeway. You can get all kinds of cool stuff in the summer. Just teach them to shuffle their feet in case of stingrays.

If you do any of these, please post some pics and let us know what the kids find!
_________________
...if my boss ever finds this forum I'll be unemployed...

landlocked beachbum · Posted: Mon May 25, 2015 1:52 pm Post subject:

Ditto on the Sargassum weed and it's inhabitants. About half way through fifth grade we moved back to CC for the 3rd of 4 times. I was amazed and enthralled at the Sargassum fish!

Likewise on the seining on either side of the JFK causeway. We used to do a BUNCH of that. Wink

_________________
Dave

"The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has it's limits". Albert Einstein

OneMoreCast88 · Posted: Mon May 25, 2015 2:40 pm Post subject:

I agree fish pass jetties is your best bet.

Also the Texas State aquarium has some hands on exhibits. You can touch harmless stingrays and small sharks.

STXwaterfowler · Pony Mullet Joined: 26 Apr 2015 Posts: 76

We went and found baby shrimp, crabs, and fish just north of Indian point pier. Across from sunset lakes. the kiddo and wife had a blast. They're oyster beds so be careful walking out there. Just past it is Sandy with lots of hermit crabs to find.

wannafish · Posted: Mon May 25, 2015 8:23 pm Post subject:

thanks for info.

ThisIsTheLife · Finger Mullet Joined: 17 Jul 2014 Posts: 20

Thanks for all the good info, guys