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 luck7/13 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."
9/25 Packery - Trout and reds inside the channel earlier in the week due to the rough weather. A good report Thursday with Slot Reds and good sized Croaker being caught near the end. Expect King Mackerel and Tarpon to be into the mix when the water gets calmer and cleaner.
Here is a report from 9/24 from "Lord of the Hardheads" Met a friend about 7 at the jetties. Not much was going on caught 2 21" Reds in the channel and a couple of snapper. When I was starting to head in saw a crowd up at the front of the jetty on the surf side. Fishing was nuts up there birds were working and people were catching lots of reds and croaker. As I started cleaning my fish by the truck the Game Warden pulled up and started checking every one. It was amazing how many people suddenly decided to leave. Not much else was caught in the channel other then some small trout.
9/18 Recent Packery Reports - Bluffer Reports from South Packery 9/17 The reds weren't in there much today, thru live piggys both sides.
Heres a shot of a bunch of Jacks all in there today. They were smaller size though.
Surfdragon was out on North Packery 9/16 At last my first day of fishing with my new fishing license, It had been so long without having a break to go do what i love.
Well i called up my brother and we dicided to go take a look.
Stoped by to pick up some finger mullet on the way out to the jetty.
Started at south jetty and water was outstanding,Clear no weed , just beautiful. Will the current wasnt running like i like it to,And it showed us just that. No fish on this side but on the north side, It was on fire.
Bait was scarce, Glad we took some out there. Reds and some scatered
spanish macs,and no kings.Schools of reds were passing by.
Slot reds and over size were hitting just about any thing you would throw. Heres a few pics i took,Wish i would have taken more but was busy.
We caught our limit,lost some and left them bitting.
Had a great time on my first day.
What a day sometime you catch fish and sometimes you dont.
The reward is just enjoying the day.8/31 Bluff Rat's report on a short rig run 8/30 - Myself, the old man and uncle made a rig run today. on the water a little before 6. calm, calm, calm. great conditions. got some bait and gas and out the jetties we went. little to no surf made it easy to get out. one bad thing....NOT ONE SNAPPER.oh well. lots of menhaden blowin up around the rigs along with some HUGE spadefish...i tried like hell to catch some, but have no idea how, all my efforts were pointless. i caught one nice smack..dad caught one REALLY NICE smack and uncle caught a nice king. had a few big hits while jigging...zipped some line and let go...maybe small AJ's? lots os fun. cant wait for next time!
OH...if you look at the pic of me with the rig in the background....in the corner of the helipad you can barely see a pelican......about 3 pounds of his crap came within about 2 inches of my head 10 minutes after that pic was taken. close call!
8/29 Gib reports on 8/28 - I fished Packery yesterday evening that was truly wonderful. I saw several Kings being landed on the end and good size ones in the mix.
It was a variety pack yesterday with Red, Trout, Snook, Mangrove, Jack, and perhaps some I have forgotten about.
8/21 - Careful if you want to park and drive into the Packery Jetties. The sand is very powdery and four wheel drive is recommended. Fishing has been good this week including for Outcast who posted this report - The best fishing day I've had in 3 years fishing @ Npackery today.
Arrived just before sunrise and started tossing the topdog in the 1st gut, most fish were missing managed 1 trout and 1 skipjack.
Switched to finger mullet (tons in the water) managed a few fish w/ the dozen bait most fish were undersized for me today. Except for one nice oversized Red CPR'd.
I quit counting fish after 15 of each species. Redfish,Snook,Trout.
I caught Mangroves, Jacks, Spanish Mackeral as well. All caught on 3-4" shad (very plentiful). I know I landed over 60 fish today and brought home 4 trout to eat. Mostly fished w/ 1 oz carolina rig, but switched to freelined w/ a split shot in the afternoon.
The best part of the day was as witness to a very good flyfisher. In his 1st 15-20 minutes he caught two trout over 25 and a 36+ Tarpon.
The water clarity wasn't great at all but a good green, at high tide I could just make out the tops of all the rocks. Their was some small weed rolling in as I was leaving and the wind had picked up to above 15. The surf was flat for the most part all day.
I left the jetty at about 2:30 and the fish were still biting.Skipper Krueger also picked up this nice 20" Flounder and a few dink trout using free lined shrimp.
8/14 Snook! Will Sanchez and his son report - Last Tuesday Morning I went out south of Bob Hall, but water was a little too rough, so I went out to NPJ. I was throwing a trout killer (texas chicken) and landed a 28 inch Snook! It jumped out of water 4 times! It was a awesome fight. Here is a pic.
My son and I went out a few days later and caught some more. No big ones but we did both hook up at same time.
Anyway we had a great time catching them, and no fun releasing them. They kept slicing my fingers with that gill plate!! Ouch!
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