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ziacatcher · Posted: Tue Dec 13, 2011 1:53 pm Post subject: Tuesday Surf Report

Got to the 10mm on PINS about 7:30 and there were no dead fish on the beach all the way down. Unfortunately, there were no live fish to be found in the water either. Had some chunks of whiting and frozen mullet that I used but NADA.

Worked my way back north all the way to FPJ. Very few people fishing and the ones I talked to weren't catching anything either.

This was about the only thing I was in the water. At least playing pop the man-o-war made the trip fun.

Saw this burned up 40' travel trailer about 1.5 miles down PINS.

Ducks on a pond leaving PINS

Conditions at FPJ. Deplorable!

Finished up at south sticks on MI and got a couple hardheads and a couple small whiting. Brought the whiting home to give to "Frazier" Crane tonight. He and 2 other birds have been coming around nightly looking for handouts. I've been keeping them well fed.

Finsonpins · Posted: Tue Dec 13, 2011 2:04 pm Post subject:

Thanks for the report. I got to PINS sunday and the ranger said they shut down the beach a mile down because of an RV on fire. Supposedly there were 40 sumthin people out there trying to put it out. I headed to SBH after and got skunked.

Chef Lefty · Posted: Tue Dec 13, 2011 2:58 pm Post subject:

FPJ - Fish Pass Jetties?

Growing up in the mid 70's, that place (before they silted it in on purpose) was one of the most beautiful places to fish and to shell hunt. Beautiful, clear water.

What a shame. Confused

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landlocked beachbum · Posted: Tue Dec 13, 2011 6:11 pm Post subject:

Yakmon · Posted: Tue Dec 13, 2011 9:37 pm Post subject: One old fish pass pic

This guy was on the wrong shoulder, but what a tube on this wave! I took this pic from the North jetty of fish pass around 1982. Man, those were the days...we would haul A after school to the beach when fish pass was boiling. Too bad that place is gone.

Yakmon

ziacatcher · Posted: Tue Dec 13, 2011 10:18 pm Post subject:

I've never seen waves like that here. Pretty cool

landlocked beachbum · Posted: Wed Dec 14, 2011 8:06 am Post subject:

DOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Sorry for getting off topic here, but MAN, you made my day!!!!!!

That looks JUST LIKE the conditions at the south jetty bowl the day that I'm speaking of except that the left shoulder was as tall and hollow as the one's right!!!!! Back that wave up about 1 second and put that surfer in the air above the breaking lip and you get the picture!!!!!!

Very cool, brings back great memories of the very FEW days that surfing in Texas was actually fairly good, relative to where I'd just come from. That's not a dis on Texas........................ Oahu just happens to be one of the worlds greatest surfing spots!! Wink

Past or present surfers, check this out: http://www.wannasurf.com/spot/North_America/USA/Hawaii/Oahu/
At least a few times a year almost every break listed here has WORLD CLASS conditions, and places like Kaisers, Threes, Populars, and Ala Moana are consistently great to world class on a weekly or biweekly basis during most summers, and North Beach (on Kaneohe Marine Corps Base) being that way almost all year, and challenging the north shore for quality high speed (WARP) barrels in the winter!!!!!!!!!! Shocked

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SALTYDOG · Posted: Wed Dec 14, 2011 8:40 am Post subject:

@Landlockedbeachbum
Not to rain on a good memory but you could not have surfed the FPJ in the 70's. Land was bought from an individual in 72. the park was opened in 79 but the jetties was not put in till some time after 82. Me and my helper would get on the beach at Port A and drive the beach to the condos behind the sea wall. That was in 82.

There has been some good surf off the jetties. I was told this buy some friends. I am not a surfer so no first hand knowledge.
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landlocked beachbum · Posted: Wed Dec 14, 2011 10:50 am Post subject:

You might want to back off the smoke there pal!!!! Laughing

We left Kailua, Oahu, Hawaii in mid summer of 1972 and moved to CC. I started going out to the island to surf and Fish Pass jetties quickly became my "go to" spot for surfing because of what I've already mentioned.

I started my senior year at King High School that same year, then my family moved up here in late September/early October of the same year,
STILL 1972 , but I came back a few times in the early mid seventies to surf, and the Fish Pass Jetties were................... still there! Very Happy

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PanamaYak · Posted: Wed Dec 14, 2011 11:43 am Post subject: got your back LLBB

I came home to CC in September '72 after two back-to-back combat tours in Vietnam and surfed some KILLER waves on the north side of FPJ during the middle of the week while the "kids" were in school. Sure looked like and felt like jetties to me! Saw one of my old class of '68 KHS surfer buds, Jimmy Kuddes in the water and we had a grand time. The FPJ were there in 1972. BTW, still married to the girl who I married on Oct. 1, 1972. Wassup Capt. Mike?

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Mad Dog · Posted: Wed Dec 14, 2011 11:58 am Post subject:

I have to agree the Fish Pass was there in the 70's. My folks would set up a light plant near the bridge. I recall what we referred to as the Corpus Christ Cut was open to the Gulf, late 60's. Caught hundreds of trout under the lights while it was open. Mom tied a 100' rope around my waist so I could wade out to the cut. She said she just wanted make sure she could recover my body in case the current ripped me away. Rolling Eyes

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landlocked beachbum · Posted: Wed Dec 14, 2011 12:29 pm Post subject:

I must say that when I made my first trip out to the Island in 1972 to reconnoiter and surf I was SURPRISED AS HELL to see them there, because it had only been two years before when we came through CC on the way to Hawaii, and they didn't exist then!!!!! Shocked

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justletmefish · Posted: Wed Dec 14, 2011 12:32 pm Post subject:

this link has some good pics and dates of fish pass
http://texascoastgeology.com/passes/fishpass.html
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landlocked beachbum · Posted: Wed Dec 14, 2011 10:07 pm Post subject:

Those pics are good stuff, but still don't go back to the beginning. Thanks for the effort just the same though! Wink

Wen I first saw them at 17 years old and KNOWING that I'd never go to college to become "educated", I knew without 2 seconds of thought and a shout of a doubt that they were WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAY too short for the channel to last!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Embarassed

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landlocked beachbum · Posted: Wed Dec 14, 2011 10:12 pm Post subject:

Sorry for the double post....................
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