12/31 Packery - Sorry for the lack of reports but after the red tide hit, the dredging began. Got this from Jim who wrote - Just moved to Corpus and went out on Packery Channel jetty and landed this nice black drum on December 20th. Of course it was too big to keep so we took some pictures and let her go.

Hopefully more to come!
Jim

10/18 Packery - The Red tide status changes daily. Good reports of Redfish, Spanish Mackerel and even a Kingfish on Monday. The front will slow things down. Let's hope the cooler weather and northerly winds will dissipate the red tide bloom Meanwhile check out this Epic Offshore report from 10/15 from My Fish out of Packery - Went out of Packery yesterday and got into a couple wahoo along with probably 10 cuda's. We ended up with two wahoo 83 and 19#'s. My buddy Tim was on the rod for the big one and got his first!! His bar is set high! My buddy Jeff got the smaller one. We lost one other one that was dumping a 50 wide and ended up cutting 300 pound mono. Oh well, you can't catch em all! Great day on the water and some wahoo for the crew!

Tight lines,
Tarus

10/6 Packery - Good fishing earlier in the week for redfish out on the ends. Will Sanchez also got his first Tarpon.

Slot redfish still strong around the bridge and back towards the bend (lots of crowds on weekends) Flounder beginning to show along the channel and outside the rocks in the surf.

9/29 Packery Jetties - Good crowds but please take the trash and broken shade tarps with you.

9/23 Packery Jetties - The finger mullet are still running strong and there have been a lot of redfish out there to greet them. Skipper reported he saw at least 8 limits of reds brought off the South Jetty. He limited out but says a large gold spoon would have been a ticket. Jacks, Tarpon, Fat Snook and Grouper were also caught this week. The forecast looks great for the Mosquito Fleet getting offshore too!

9/15 Packery Jetties - Loads of finger mullet coming out this week with redfish following them. Spanish Mackerel, Bluefish , Ladyfish, Trout are there too! Don't be surprised if Jack Crevalle show up at the ends this weekend to wreak havoc on the mullet migration. Don't be surprised to see Kingfish or Tarpon either.

Surfdragon did well earlier this week further up the channel. 9/14 Meeting up with my friends today for some fishing,Got a late start getting there.Getting there at 10 am the conditions were favorable ,Mullet were there and the right amount of current to do the trick.At my arrival my buddies had limited out with reds,It didnt take long for me to limit out either.
Caught my limit so fast i stuck around for a little longer just to feel the drag of those brusesing reds on 10 lb test.Baits used live finger mullet and piggies.
I think every one out caught there limit in no time.Heres some pics
of the while i was there. I think like only two reds that were oversize one was taged the other released,the one tag ran like 29 inches.
I was back home in no time,Went out just for some red fish action and did we get it. another fine day of fishing with old friends.

 

 

9/2 Tropical Storm Lee has the water up and rough today and the water could go to the dunes this evening 9/2. Expect conditions to improve Saturday.

NP Jetty via HR2222 8/28 - Caught/released 20in red on lemon rig and live mullet.

Guys next to us caught 50in King using mullet as well

Something hit my line at 100mph and as fast as it was running it stopped and my lemon came back up to the surface. Intense on light tackle.

Fish caught between 6:30-7pm

Offshore Short Rigs 8/27 via Txluke - Hit the water Sat. We trolled with some ribbonfish and landed a 100" sailfish. This was my first trip to the blue water and a big shout out to Captain Mike Hart for taking me. Here is a pic of us letting her go to fight another day.

8/17- Murf reported 8/13 - Just hit the jetty, water is COLD and murky! However, the green seems like its heading to shore.. Maybe by tomorrow it'll be killer again.. Caught four 5lb skippies on live bait.. I think its only gonna get better.

Offshore Packery 8/14 - The mosquito fleet headed out Sunday with the reports slow but the blue water in close. There were several chicken Dolphin and a few ling reported in addition to King Mackerel and Spanish Mackerel in Close.

Gunbuyer had some fun on 8/15 "Went offshore this morning with the intentions of going to the ant hills rigs. Had two air tanks, two guns, a bang stick, two coolers, 17 gallons of gas, and 4 rods. The boat was loaded well... went 15 off and decided to add the 5 gallons to see how we were consuming fuel in the head sea loaded like we were. Well it turned out we were only getting 3.3 miles or so per gallon.... The ant hills are 74 miles round trip... We trolled to a rig 19.5 miles SSE of packery and commensed spearfishing. Shot about 10 snapper and caught a couple cobia. While free diving I saw what appeared to be a monster Grouper!! I grabbed my tank and went down only to find out it was a over 54 inch jewfish! IT was longer than my gun!!!!!!! He was huge and not scared at all. I know it is illegal to shoot them but even if it werent that thing would kill me!!!!!!! We are going back out tomorrow or wednesday weather permitting with 27 gallons of gas and all of our gear to hit the ant hills. We wanted to shoot a 50 +++ pound amber jack today but I guess we did alright! Hope you enjoy the videos I will post momentarily. "

7/14 Packery Channel - Several Tarpon reported this week including two today from Councilman Kevin Kieschnick who texted me that he got a 30" and a 40" at the end of the jetties on live bait. My friend Riofrio says that folks were catching trout inside the channel all week during the middle of the day on DOA shrimp and live shrimp under lemon rigs or popping corks.
Offshore Packery has been good for snapper in Federal waters though some of the more popular rigs are getting picked clean of legal snapper. Sargassum weed lines and weed patches are producing Mahi Mahi both chicken and adult and also a few wahoo for trollers.

7/7 Packery Channel - Here's a quick report via HROD222 - Caught three trout all over 17in on channel side using a lemon rig and live mullet. Caught them between 10-11am. Should be good fishing for the rest of the week. Had a break off not sure what it was.

Great fishing offshore with the lighter winds out of Packery this week. Gunbuyer went out July 4th and posted "Went offshore this morning left packery at 5:38. went towards the ant hills 17 miles and caught 7 chicken dolphin and shot one. Swam with them and there were literally 500 or more little guys there. The average size was like 12 inches. We tried trolling faster to lose the little ones and catch something big but that didnt happen. Left 500 chicken dolphin and headed for the rigs. Trolled around a couple times and nothing. Tied up and caught one snapper. Dove and caught nothing. Went to a different rig due to lack of fish and over crowding... surprising amount of people out there. Went to a farther rig to catch fish and be alone. Caught 2 cobia, 24 and 32 pounds. Caught many more snapper and a couple sharks. When diving I saw like 10 keeper monster amber jack and the biggest mangrove snapper ever. I shot a 12lb mangrove about 3 weeks ago and this one was BIGGER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! But he was apparently that big due to his intelligence. He saw me and took off like a bat outta hell.

6/23 Packery Channel- Windy rough conditions made it tough last weekend even in the middle of the channel. ( See photo below from Sunday) The winds are down and the water should settle. Expect reds and trout this weekend if the water turns green. Live bait including mullet and shrimp has worked recently for the reds and trout. DOA shrimp lures and suspending baits should also pick up trout.

5/17 Packery Channel - Redfish and a few trout reported today with finger and pony mullet accounting for some the trout. On Monday there were several tarpon caught and king and spanish mackerel along with some hungry bluefish and a pompano.

5/13 Packery Channel - Good fishing for redfish and jacks this week. The surf was huge so be careful on the ends.

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5/6 Packery Channel - Fishing has been tough the last month or so due to the heavy winds and the sargassum especially on the jetties. This last front this week improved the overall fishing. Redfish and trout were caught in the channel at the jetties. Surfdragon fished the bridge Wednesday and reported a mixed bag of flounder, redfish and trout.

 

 

4/16 Packery Channel - Lots of sheepshead, most undersized, mangrove snapper and a few grouper ( remember the groupers have to be 22" ) Tarpon reported rolling off the end of the Jetty Friday. Trout, redfish, small snook and Jack Crevalle also reported this week. Sargassum remains bad on the surf sides and at the end of the jetty.

4/7 Packery - Jacks are still around as are slot redfish. This is the time of year that small crab imitations work on an outgoing tide. Gulp Crabs walked along the rocks and freelined will catch the reds if you see the small crabs in the water on the outgoing tide. Dark fat mama spoon'R lures work great too! Look for trout and even a few flounder on live shrimp under lemon rigs or popping corks. Spanish Mackerel and Kings could show up when the winds calm and the water clears.

4/1 Packery - Jacks are Back. Mexico Mike says they came in droves off the end of the jetty. Spooner lures and spoons took most of them.

Redfish are also in the channel with slot and oversized being taken on cut bait and shrimp. Sheepshead and trout have also been caught on live shrimp.

3/25 Packery and Offshore Packery - Spring Break and lots of sargassum hampered fishing in and near the channel recently. However Gunbuyer and a friend headed offshore via Packery for some fishing and shooting 3/24 and here is his report- Went offshore today around 10:00am it was much nicer than yesterday with better formed swells. Trolled around waiting for sun to show up hooked two kingfish in the little whaler loaded with scuba gear. I tried to gaff my fish while holding the rod. Lost my fish but I did gaff my buddies!!!!

We scuba dived and shot. I shot a decent red snapper and a NICE Mangrove!!! Freedove and shot 7 more sheepshead. The cooler was full and ice was melting so didnt get our limit of 10. It literally took 10 minutes to shoot 7 sheepshead. THe water was 54.0 degrees at 50 feet!!!!!!!!!!! FREEZING! I will have another report tomorrow!

3/17 Rio Frio Reports 3/13 - Trout and Sheepshead on the fly from Packery.

3/11 Finally - A Packery Report this one is from Romeandrone - Decided to wet the hook yesterday after work with a bud of mine due to hearing that the sheepies were out. Picked us up some live shrimp got to jetties with water a little rough. Rigged up my line and the rest is history. We got 5 total between us both with a few missed chances. Total time spend out there was an hour, hour and a half at the most "note to self. I need to invest in jettie shoes" almost became a victim to the rocks a few times.............lol.

1/29 SAPolice23's Report - After being so caught up with life and its time constraints, Me and my wife took a two day mini vactaction to Corpus Christi. We got there on saturday at around 10am, picked up some live shrimp and headed out to NPJ. The day was beautiful and the conditions were decent. I finally baited the reel and tossed it out. I was there for about 3 hours and caught about 3 specs at 15 inches that were released and kept a 19 inch fattie that swallowed the whole hook. I had a few good hook ups, but they got off. All in all, it was great being out there and wetting a line. Cant wait to go back. My wife actually enjoyed being out there so I might take her back haha.

1/20 Surfdragon's Report - Im not even going into detail, I got skunked,Only two gigantic perch that actually took some drag. So i got some pics of the water and construction on bob hall . Water looked real good under packery bridge, kinda brownish south of bob hall and looking better noirth of bobhall,sea weed was present south of bob hall and hardly none north of bob hall. Tod from onterio canada and family fishing north of bobhall a frienly family i met just driving around enjoying the day.Ill be on vacation starting on sunday ill try and post up.
see ya on the beach.
















seaweed on first cast ,see you later.














Constuction on bob hall in prgress.












Tod and family from onterio canada.






HEADING ON HOME ,NO FISH BUT A GREAT DAY AT THE BEACH.
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SEE YA ON THE BEACH NEXT TIME.

11/5 Here's Surfdragon's report from 11/1 - The reds are still biting Just a heads up on prefrontal day at the packery, Mullet were every where
the surf was kicking and there was sea weed present.The wind was blowing out of the southeast the water was murky in the surf and greenish in the channel. Red fish were being caught early mourning in the channel and then the tide slacked and the fish were being caught in the surf if you could fish it due to waves crashing against the rocks. Tried north of the jetties on the surf
with my grandaughters and just hung out on the sand,Mullet were presaent but no fish. As i write this ill be loading the truck and heading south of bobhall to give it a try. Front has moved in and can imagen what the surf looks like. Metting a couple of friends out there,Give you the results later. Heres some pics of the day.

10/15 Packery Channel - Good fishing for lots of species this week. Snooker Ed has been hitting the trout at the end of the jetties on his sex lure ( swim bait) with quite a few nice fish and the occasional snook too! Slot reds, ladyfish and black drum also reported. Look for flounder and try finger mullet on a carolina rig.

 

Meanwhile Offshore out of Packery 10/9 aboard the Superfishal - Mickey, Heidi, Jason, Porkfetus, DElliot and yours truly, got into lots of chicken dolphin off of the rips and weedlines near Southern. Here D.Elliot jumps off the helm to play deck hand

Back at stately Elliot Manor - the haul

 

 

10/7 Packery Channel - Spanish Mackerel, Redfish, Jacks, Ladyfish and a King Mackerel. Weekend prospects look good but expect huge crowds. Here is a report from Skipper 10/4

Nice Wind was blowing pretty good out of the north, but I ended up with 2 keepers. The pic is 27 3/4" and the other was 25".

9/26 Packery via Surfdragon - Got a late start,Stoping at roys bait and tackle to restock my tackle box.
I tell you its heaven in there. Not much of a report for me,There were a few reds and spanish mackerals caught. Water looked great surfers were out and
finger mullet were out doing there thing.Just not the best time that i like to fish, Full moon,
In the morning but its about to change.Heres a few pics of a kid with a nice red fish and surf conditions south of bob hall. Water was green,Bait fish was
present hardly no sea weed.The water was at low tide in pics. kIWI was present too! ( My dog). See you on the beach.

9/25 Packery Redfish Bite HOT! - Frayeknot's report was just one of many this week with good fishing for Redfish.

Some very exciting reports and great advice has been posted regarding the Redfish and mullet action at the Packery Channel. I made a last minute decision Tuesday night to head out of town and get in on the action. I told my son about it and we watched the weather. We knew it wasn't going to be Chamber of Commerce weather but we took the gear we thought was best.
Wednesday morning we loaded up and headed out into some horrible traffic due to the rain here in San Antonio. Eventually we got out of town and made into Corpus Christi a few hours later...this was on the horizon!



At the Jetty we could see there were several fisherman there. We netted some mullet and then made our way down and found one of the suggested spots. Minutes later Chris is hooked up...



Then he and I...



We landed 5 before 1pm. We let this one go. It was right at 20".



Confident we would catch our limit, we stayed a little longer.It rained a little but it was warm. Offered some tackle to the Jetty Gods. A few runs but no hook ups. We packed it up and left to get some food and dry off.
Went back to the jetty around 3pm with high hopes. The tide was moving out with force. We caught a few skipjacks. Saw several Reds landed on the channel sides of North and South Jetty.
Chris landed a Spanish Mackerel after a few cut offs.



Satisfied with our catch, we packed it up and made our way back home safely. Everything came together at the right time and we really enjoyed the time together.
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9/16 Surfdragon's Redfish Report - It's been a very long wait with hot weather sargassum (weed) and storms.
Well my time finnally came long working hours and just hectic conditions i decided to wait summer fishing for fall fishing.
My first fishing trip in about three months,Boy was i needing the fishing fix.
Every thing came together and decided to try my luck.
The day turned out great,Even got drenched from a passing shower. But what the hell somebody has to catch fish. water looked great for reds some seaweed in the water but nothing to write home about.
Finger mullet were on the move,Fish caught were snook, reds (slot),snapper
and even saw a tarpon hook up,But the tarpon won walking away. KING fish juming out of the water was also seen. heres some photos of the day. Its just the begining of fall fishing, Baits used finger mullet,live shrimp, perch
on bottom and lemon rig. Limits of reds were caught by most of the people fishing. see ya on the beach! Wife and i limited, brother one.

9/9 Labor Day Report - An oversized red, Keeper reds on the North Jetty. A small snook, small trout, and scattered ladyfish. Spanish Mackerel also observed though not caught.

8/13 Good Water Clarity and Some Snook and Sargassum around - Central Scrutinizer reported 8/12 Made the run to SPJ (at the very end) this morning, and the surf has cleared quite a bit. A fresh round of Sargassum rolled in, BUT it also brought in some clear-"ish" water to the jetties. Still pretty green, only had 5-6 foot visibility. Had a limit of sheepsheads in no time flat, although the bigger snapper (>14") are still elusive. 4 foot viz at-best on the bottom.

Snook as far as the eye can see, but......... no-go there. Got run by a large school of jack cravelle as I was about the leave . Spadefish are still smallish, so no shots there.

Still better than spending the morning behind the computer at the Office.

Forgot to mention it, but the two guys at the end of SPJ reported that they saw a tarpon rolling right after sun-up. Beauty, eh?

7.5 Tiger - Earlier this week a 7.5 foot Tiger Shark was reported caught from the South Packery Jetty. The shark swallowed the hook and they were not able to release it.

8/7 Sort of Epic Offshore Report from Frayed - Well, not in the usual sense. Participants included Capt. delliot, Co Capt helliot, Tyler, Augs, Porkfetus, Rockstar Mickey, Yours Truly.

Late start 9 am got pushed back into a hangover start 11.30 AM. Ran the Supafishal out to Ranzells. The two plus hour run was populated by a whole lot of drinking, lots of bad jokes that left my gut sore, only surpassed by a bruised tailbone due to an misjudgement in shuffling over in my seat while the supafishal dropped 5 feet into a hole. Ouch. Glad co capt couldn't hear everything back in sheboygan, it got pretty bad. There shall be no t-bagging allowed in said sheboygan! LOL.

Found a rip and trolled up NADA. Oh well, let's tie up.

I'm a mangrove snapper addict. Problem is getting stealthy baits to them through the friggen chubs turned out to be a challenge, but still managed a few. Rockstar Mickey yanked up a Rock Hind grouper, quickly pointing at the beast saying: looks like bait, lookee that thing. To which I said noooooooo, we're gotta catch a dozen of those things and fry them up! (love rock hinds)

Fixing to run back in, Tyler hooks up with Dusky on Augs' heavy duty spinning setup (that I want to steal, Van Staal or sumptin like that). Gets off then Augs finds him again. So, a late start out turns into a late return.

Back in at dark (been through packery at dark a few times, no biggie), and hilarity continued. Undoubtedly the worst offshore catching trip ever but the most fun ever!

Pics:

Capt:



pork and rockstar watching spread



yours truly



Tyler trying to break Augs high dolla rig



Augs contribution: the Dusky





Me and Rockstar trolling till I got kicked off the helm. LOL



Lost our sun well be before seeing land



Portuguese style mangrove snapper about to go into oven

8/5 Bottom up view from Central Scrutinizer who said - Headed out this am about 7:15, hoping to take advantage of the calm conditions the past few days. The access road to the south jetties is pretty chewed up right past the blacktop, so I turned around and headed over to the north jetties. A little better there, thanks to the "road" that they maintain.

Visibility was much less than I was hoping for, but I was determined to spear some fish. Headed to one of the spots I know well, about 50 yards from the end. All the fishing action was on the surf side, so I had the channel side to myself. MAYBE 5-6 foot viz at the surface, even less on the bottom. But the fish were thick!!! Got a limit of sheepshead (all 16-19") in about 15 minutes. Started scouting out for snapper, and I'm glad to report that there is no shortage of 8-12" fish!

With the poor visibility, it was tough to get close up on the bigger ones, although I did spook a BEHEMOTH mangrove that could have easily gone 8 lbs. Left all the smallish ones for another day, and settled for the limit of sheepshead.

Another good thing to report is that the snook didn't take a beating from last winter or the red tide. For anyone wanting to catch some, head to the channel-side, 25 yards from the end, 10-15 yards from the rocks/waters edge. The bottom is <10 feet, and the monster snook are cruising just about everywhere! There are some BIG fish down there. 25-30"+ LOGS.

There was also an abundance of very small stinging nettle jellyfish, but surprisingly, I didn't get hit once. Out of the water with dinner and into the office before 9:30. Not a bad way to start the day.

7/29 B1 - 83 fished South Packery 7/26 and filed this report - The water was perfect - pale green with just enough chop. We boxed 6 trout, with the biggest at 19 inches. Threw back a dozen or more dinks and 3 undersized reds. Oddly enough, the water seemed cooler than a few weeks ago. That can only be a good thing with the weekend coming. All fish were caught on live shrimp on lemon rigs.

7/23 South Packery Jetty Report from Will Sanchez - Went out to spj about 8pm weds night. Decided to pick one lure and head out. Started throwing and got a hit on my 5th cast. Next cast I felt something nail it, I hooked it and it started taking line. I didn't know what it was until it got close! NICE surprise, 25 inch Snook! I took it to my truck, came back and caught another one! It was between 23 and 24! I thew that one back and took off. I hadn't caught any of those since last year. Last time I caught decent fish was right before last storm, we caught 9 reds there.
Here's the pics.


Water was a little rougher today, caught one trout at end of day. Well good luck

7/13 Packery Jetties - This report from over the weekend from CARDSHARK "We fished packery near the bridge past weekend people were catching nice( 3-4 total) summer flounder,one nice 27+ trout on I believe a live mullet,rat reds,a few nice sand trout in the mix,tons of grander croaker( 8-12 inch size)all day.Ladyfish and croaker ate up all our live bait.Pretty slow overall though."

6/24 Packery Jetties - Nickaway reported only two footers near the jetty and some small trout this morning. Water is looking a lot better. Driving is much better around the afternoon with the lower tides.

Offshore - Liberty Ship Trip out of Packery 6/21 from Tightrope who says:4 of us went offshore out of Packery yesterday and the ride out was fairly rough but doable. . We headed out to the Liberty ship and tried to drift but waves and wind were to much so ended up anchoring. We had a great day and ended up with a mess of Lane snapper, Red snapper, and one 46 inch King. The largest Red snapper was 24 inches. Here are some pics




And like the Govt......... doing our part to save the Pelicans

6/17 Lots of weeds - But there is enough water clarity according to Nickaway. Reports of Tarpon and Kings at the end of the Jetties where the water is a bit cleaner than the murkier surf.

Meanwhile Rick Sanders did pretty well 6/16 - 6/16

Fished the surf 6/15 and 6/16 with lures and free lined croaker. Water was dirty, current was bad, weed was very thick in the north, waves were big. Finally found some trout Tuesday at 11 am close to north Packery. Kept 8 trout to 20 inches. Quit at 1 pm.
Went back Wednesday morning and only caught one but it went 26 inches. The water got better the farther south you went on Mustang.

6/1 Crowded on the Jetties - Fishing was slow early but reports of Jacks, Redfish, Trout, a few Kings and Spanish. Bob Bennett got the catch of the weekend with a Tarpon on his custom Breakaway rod.

SurfinSapo has some great pics and a cool underwater video from the weekend HERE

 

Meanwhile with the calm seas, Ziacatcher went with his son's family offshore for Memorial Day and here is his report : My son and his wife, my wife and I, and our 2 grandsons went this morning for our first off-shore adventure on my son's boat.

This is me and my 3 year old grandson, JJ before leaving the dock.



Went out from Packery to the nearest rigs. Hooked up some ribbonfish on rigs I made and began to troll. Shortly after putting the baits in the water on of the reels start clicking. Brought in this 46" king.

The next 45 min. or so and no other takers. Went and anchored up by a rig and began seeing cobia swimming around. Put a strike pro clown minnow on my in-shore rod and had a few cobia following it. Slow it down and twitched it once and she went for it. Put on quite a fight.

Here's the lure.


And here is the hooked cobia with another following it.



When trying to land her she flipped and one hook was in her and the other was through the back of my hand. Here is the fish and me both hooked.



With 2 nurses on board First Aid was no problem. Cut the treble hook where all 3 hooks join, separated the 3 hooks and pulled the one that was in my hand through and I was back to fishing in a matter of minutes.

A great day with the family and catching fish was just a bonus.

5/27 SPack Jetty via Tarzan - Jacks and Trout today with lots of mullet around. Expect a huge crowd and lots of boat traffic this weekend. Redfish too!

5/20 Report from Nickaway 5/19 Lots of weed on the Gulf Side of the south Jetty, water clarity still good. Sargassum is turning the corner and coming into the channel on incoming tides. The lea of the North Jetty is pretty calm with some trout caught on that side.

Reddrum North Packery 5/18 - Small Spanish Mackerel were caught that were just over the legal limit size.

5/7 - Spanish Macks, a few slot reds and a King Mackerel and even a Sharpnose Shark reported this week.

Here is a report on the South Jetties from Gotmullet? on 5/3 Caught this guy yesterday on cut up Perch.
He was released to live another day
Put up a good fight in and out of the water.

Sorry about the blurry pic, camera phone.

(Not much action going on as nobody was really catching anything out there)

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4/21 - Spanish Mackerel are in with the clear water - Surfdragon filed a report here

4/10 Return of the Bluff Rat! - The Bluff Rat returned after being seriously injured in a motorcycle accident and filed this report from South Packery: My will power is weak...against doc's orders....i went fishin, FINALLY! went to sopac around 7, water clearin up nice..low surf..and finger mullet comin back! fished live shrimp on bottom and in about 1.5 hours...me and FIDO limit out sheephead...what a blast. FIDO baged a couple trout as well. saw one guy catch a nice slot drum, another caught a small red, one caught a flounder. then i layed my eyes on somethin beautiful....a big o smack jumpin out the water after mullet!!! i tried like heck with a spoon but to no juice



FIDO and the stringer

4/2 Sheepies! - Ziacatcher caught and released 40 sheepshead on fresh dead shrimp before being potlicked out of his spot! :)

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3/24 Water Murky - The current has been fairly strong so best bet is to try closer to the bridge. Spring break is over so access to the N. Jetty should improve. Sheepshead still being reported. Try freelined shrimp or Doa lures for keeper trout . If the weather warms and the water clears watch for Spanish Mackerel at the ends of the jetties.

3/12 Dredging is over and the Trout are biting - Latest reports say good sized trout are biting by the bridge on live free lined shrimp. Keep in mind spring break begins this weekend. Zahn Road will be one way coming out so no access in that direction during Spring Break. The South Jetty access could be a problem too with the sand moving vehicles moving sand in front of the seawall. Remember no dogs allowed on the beach north of Packery during Spring Break.

2/10 Dredging and Rough Weather - Both are making the water dirty and the fishing tough recently with little or no reports from the Jetties themselves. 2/6 a group went offshore to the nearshore rigs but only landed undersized Red Snapper.

12/21 North Packery via Bluffer - Still on the hunt & well since surf sucked bad yesterday decided to hit the jetties today.
Got out there to find water WAY low and moss exposed everywhere on the rocks.

Set up long rods with cut mullet one in the channel side and one in the surf side. Also thru dead shrimp on small rod under a float & only dink specks with it. NOTHING on the long-rods.
And BTW them rocks are VERY SLIPPERY with exposed moss on em. Busted my Butt bigtime when tried to closer to edge.



Kept hearing a buzzing sound and looked up and saw "fan man" this guy on a motorized parasail was cruizing all round out there.

yall remember fan-man, crashed in a outdoor boxing ring in vegas

Gotta get one of these, would be a excellent fish-spotting tool!


Had to do a little 4-wheeling to get in to the NPJ. access road closed so went down along channel edge from boat ramp & up over the dunes (berm) to get in there. Nice having a 4X4.

Skunked again today but had a good time trying!

11/19 South Packery - Jacks are Here via Bluff Rat - Got there right after sun up to find even better conditions. plenty of finger mullet, clear water, almost no surf. not a whole lot happenin, but we got 1 big whiting and one nice flounder....then the jacks showed up!! awesome watchin them fly around destroying the mullet!! free lined a mullet on my little rod, started to think that was a bad idea when i hooked up it broke off pretty quick, so i rig up some bigger equipment...hook up again, and we fight for about 10 minutes. that was fun, but we didnt get anything else after that. spoke briefly with mr. Will Sanchez, he got a nice jack also. very beautiful day









WILL AND HIS FISH

11/5 Finally A Report Here is one from Surfdragon from BHP - Packery - Finally my day off arrived,With clear skys and cool weather.
Stopped at bobhall first with gates open for free fishing, Not bad.
Water was clear and green,with shad around some of the columns.
Fishing was some what slow with spanish mackerels being caught on plugs and man o lures. Stayed for a while with no luck,And decided on north packery jetty.
Fish caught were black drum, slot reds ,pompono,mangrove snapper
and spanish macs. Heres a few pics of the day and some fish.

10/19 Red Tide has pounded Packery since 10/14 but things are looking better -- Here is a report from BHP - Packery to Port A from Skipper "Went to BHP and the SPJ, then to Port A. The water is looking a lot better. It is dirty green but no red tide symptoms. Lots of people surfing and fishing. Here are a few pics from Port A. The first pic is from Friday, kind of a before and after deal. The second is about the same area.







Here are a few pics from SPJ




Adios"

10/5 Redfish and Mangroves reported - Gib said he fished 10/1 "Hit Packery this afternoon being told wind was lighter than anticipated. It was this way for a short period of time until that bank of clouds over the city, I believe, started sucking it in and cranked it up a notch or two.

I saw about 10 to 15 Reds caught. Most of them in the lower slot range and several undersized.

There are a lot of Mangroves - caught about 8 or 10.

Also caught several undersized Trout. Those surf Trout sure are pretty.

Everything was primarily on mullet, croaker, and cut perch. Basically, anything we could get in the castnet."

 

 

 

 

 

 

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