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PACNW
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 Posted: Sat Mar 10, 2018 10:05 pm Post subject: NEW TO CORPUS CHRISTI |
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Hi all,
We just arrived Thursday from the Pacific NW to do a job here over the next few months.
While I was bummed to leave my winter steelhead season in full swing, it looks like you guys have some pretty good fishing in these parts. Trouble is, this is entirely new to us and any help would be greatly appreciated.
I don't even know what we would be fishing for. Perhaps the name of a local tackle shop that can get us dialed in?
Thanks in advance. |
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Texican
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| Posted: Sat Mar 10, 2018 10:47 pm Post subject: |
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Your first step should be a trip to Roy's Tackle for a seemingly endless buffet of gear, accessories and I'm sure a few good tips. Then, motor on over to Breakaway Tackle on Rodd Field Rd. Look to Nick Meyer for some awesome rods, reels and some sage surf advice.
GOOD LUCK!
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chapcat54
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| I would recommend watching YouTube vids on Texas coastal fishing. You can learn a lot from them. Simply go to YouTube and put in a search for "Texas Coast Fishing", and start watching them. |
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Tyler
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ziacatcher
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| Posted: Sun Mar 11, 2018 11:07 am Post subject: |
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| If you brought any of your steelhead with you here a lot of that stuff will work in the coastal Waters. They'll be no problem for trout Reds drum Etc. |
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PACNW
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| Posted: Sun Mar 11, 2018 12:49 pm Post subject: |
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| Tyler wrote: | | Where in Pac NW? I lived in North Bend, Wa until coming here in 1998. |
We live in the coast range between Portland and Tillamook. Lots of salmon and steelhead fishing to be had for sure! I have been doing that type of fishing exclusively for the last 30 years so walking into one of your local tackle shops here, I was COMPLETELY lost.
Everything looks so foreign. LOL! At least back home I know what gear actually catches fish and what gear catches fisherman.. Here I am starting from scratch and it is a little overwhelming. Ha! |
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PACNW
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| Posted: Sun Mar 11, 2018 12:55 pm Post subject: |
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| ziacatcher wrote: | | If you brought any of your steelhead with you here a lot of that stuff will work in the coastal Waters. They'll be no problem for trout Reds drum Etc. |
No, unfortunately, I left all that stuff at home. All I have is some heavy deep sea rods I picked up on my last job in CA. Once I get an idea of how I'm going to fish, then I can pick up whatever I need from that point. I'm used to floating down rivers in a drift boat or raft and working the water as I go not so much plunking and kicking back... But I'll do whatever catches the fish...  |
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PACNW
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| Posted: Sun Mar 11, 2018 1:00 pm Post subject: |
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| Texican wrote: | Your first step should be a trip to Roy's Tackle for a seemingly endless buffet of gear, accessories and I'm sure a few good tips. Then, motor on over to Breakaway Tackle on Rodd Field Rd. Look to Nick Meyer for some awesome rods, reels and some sage surf advice.
GOOD LUCK! |
Thanks so much for the advice! Breakaway Tackle was closed today so I went to Roy's. Awesome place but I started to realize that I would be shooting in the dark buying anything at this point so we quietly left. LOL!
Thanks again, I'll hopefully talk to Nick soon.  |
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PACNW
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| Posted: Sun Mar 11, 2018 1:01 pm Post subject: |
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| chapcat54 wrote: | | I would recommend watching YouTube vids on Texas coastal fishing. You can learn a lot from them. Simply go to YouTube and put in a search for "Texas Coast Fishing", and start watching them. |
Been doing that since yesterday and now I'm thinking I need a kayak. LOL! |
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Donnie
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You have your choice here - pretty much anyway you want to fish, wade and cast, get a boat and drift and cast, drive-stop and cast (surf fishing), fly fishing, pier, jetty, various ways of off shore fishing.
There may be better places to live for a fisherman, and our Cajun friends probably have some ideas on that - but I think this is it.
Just try it all - mine is surf fishing, but I have tried just about everything - from deep sea for wahoo, barracuda, and God knows what all - down to fly fishing for alligator gar in the Nueces. Surf fishing can be different every day, some days bait, some days lures, some days both, some days the surf rolls your butt off the beach and into the dunes.
Best thing about fishing down here is you are going to meet some of the most decent people you have ever known.
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PACNW
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| Posted: Sun Mar 11, 2018 5:40 pm Post subject: |
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| Donnie wrote: | You have your choice here - pretty much anyway you want to fish, wade and cast, get a boat and drift and cast, drive-stop and cast (surf fishing), fly fishing, pier, jetty, various ways of off shore fishing.
There may be better places to live for a fisherman, and our Cajun friends probably have some ideas on that - but I think this is it.
Just try it all - mine is surf fishing, but I have tried just about everything - from deep sea for wahoo, barracuda, and God knows what all - down to fly fishing for alligator gar in the Nueces. Surf fishing can be different every day, some days bait, some days lures, some days both, some days the surf rolls your butt off the beach and into the dunes.
Best thing about fishing down here is you are going to meet some of the most decent people you have ever known. |
It sure seems that way. We're staying in an RV park and everyone is so nice. We just love TX! You still have a lot of freedom here! We were in CA for most of last year and that state just sucks (not to offend anyone from CA). It is night and day difference between here and there.
Everyone we have met here has been so nice and friendly it has really been a pleasure! In CA, we went to Costco on a Sunday night and everyone looked like they wanted to kill each other. 
We certainly feel blessed to get to spend the next few months here. Not sure I'm looking forward to the heat I hear about but given how nice everyone is here, it will be worth it! Tight lines |
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ziacatcher
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| Posted: Sun Mar 11, 2018 5:55 pm Post subject: |
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Hey, PACNW, where down here are you staying. You never said if you were here in Corpus or Rockport or Port A. Some of that will determine what kind of gear you want and what kind of fishing you'll do.
A good 7ft rod with medium fast rigged with a 30 or 35 type spinning reel with 20lb braid will catch you just about anything you want in the bays and most of the stuff in the surf. If you really going to be in to Surf fish and you need to go to something like a 12-foot rod and some heavy tackle. So depends on what kind of fishing you want to do[/list] |
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Donnie
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| PACNW wrote: | | Not sure I'm looking forward to the heat I hear about but given how nice everyone is here, it will be worth it! Tight lines |
fyi, on the heat, at the worst of it, July maybe, I dont know, but head out to the beach - and there is almost always a gentle breeze to cool you off.
Dont forget sun protection though - never forget it - nothing will ruin your love for this place faster than an awful sunburn. My cousin and his new wife from up in the central texas area - came here for their honeymoon - around 1965 or so, it was cloudy, they not knowing better , figured they were safe. The sunburns they both got cost one a stay in the hospital, the other a week off from work. They have never been back.
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PACNW
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| Posted: Sun Mar 11, 2018 7:12 pm Post subject: |
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| ziacatcher wrote: | Hey, PACNW, where down here are you staying. You never said if you were here in Corpus or Rockport or Port A. Some of that will determine what kind of gear you want and what kind of fishing you'll do.
A good 7ft rod with medium fast rigged with a 30 or 35 type spinning reel with 20lb braid will catch you just about anything you want in the bays and most of the stuff in the surf. If you really going to be in to Surf fish and you need to go to something like a 12-foot rod and some heavy tackle. So depends on what kind of fishing you want to do[/list] |
Corpus... Not to far from CCAD where my job is. Thanks for the tip. At least I know what rod to go buy to get me started. Thanks! I'm not probably going to go the surf rod route...to much stuff to pack home but a 7' rod can be very versatile no matter where we go.  |
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PACNW
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| Posted: Sun Mar 11, 2018 7:18 pm Post subject: |
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| Donnie wrote: | | PACNW wrote: | | Not sure I'm looking forward to the heat I hear about but given how nice everyone is here, it will be worth it! Tight lines |
fyi, on the heat, at the worst of it, July maybe, I dont know, but head out to the beach - and there is almost always a gentle breeze to cool you off.
Dont forget sun protection though - never forget it - nothing will ruin your love for this place faster than an awful sunburn. My cousin and his new wife from up in the central texas area - came here for their honeymoon - around 1965 or so, it was cloudy, they not knowing better , figured they were safe. The sunburns they both got cost one a stay in the hospital, the other a week off from work. They have never been back. |
Yeah, did that once a long time ago on the west coast... miserable! I'll buy some of that cool sunblock clothing you guys wear down here. Can't wait to look the part even though I'll be a newbie. |
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