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7/23 Good Fishing Early in the Week But Watch out for Bonnie - Seas will be 4 to 6 feet tonight(Fri) Snapper Season ends in Federal Waters at midnight 7/23.

Deep Sea Headquarters reported good fishing earlier this week. Captain Keith Schoolcraft on the 8hr Gulf Eagle trip on 7/19 Caught Red Snapper, Kingfish,

Atlantic Sharpnose Shark, Jack Crevelle .

 

7/15 Deep Sea Roundup 75 a success! - In spite of Friday's dicey weather the Deep Sea Roundup came in with flying colors. Here's a report via Extremecoast.com from Gabe who was on the boat that won the prize for the biggest Catch and Release Blue Marlin

Here are the Deep Sea Roundup winners for 2010

Meanwhile fishing has been great when the boats have been able to get out. Here is the catch from the 12 hr trip with Captain Clark on the New Pelican from Deep Sea Headquarters on 7/11 Amberjack, Dorado, Kingfish, Shark, Red Snapper, Tiggerfish, Vermillion Snapper

6/24 Port A - It was slow for the most part on the Jetties - Wallhanger had this Father's Day Report - Fished the North Jetties on Sunday at the shark camp. Fished from 6:30 to 6 pm. Caught two pup sharks and one trout. Fish were not biting at all. Full moon may have something to do with it. Talked to some guys that said they ran into some overnighters on Sunday morning that had lots of shark action. Some they couldn't get in to see how big they were.

On the 19th there were some Reds caught on live perch.

Still getting Kings, Snapper, Ling, Sharpnose sharks and a few Amberjacks offshore.

6/7 Offshore 6/4 with Deep Sea Headquarters - Captain Keith Schoolcraft and the anglers aboard the Gulf Eagle enjoyed a nice 8hr trip which included catches of Red Snapper, Ling, King Mackerel, Jack Crevalle and a Hammerhead shark.

5/27 Offshore Deep Sea Headquarters - The 8hr trip today hat lots of King Mackerel. Great weather and water conditions expected over the weekend. Look for Kings in close to the jetties - it's time.

5/20 Offshore Deep Sea Headquarters - The 12 hour trip on 5/17 aboard the New Pelican with Captain Clark had Amberjack, Ling, King Mackerel, Vermillion Snapper, Grouper and Sharks.

5/7 Offshore Adventures - Saltbranch went Wednesday and caught Vermillion Snapper. Catches included ling, Sharpnose Sharks, and King Mackerel this week.

4/2 Big Uglies and More Uglies from Port A - Oso Yakman filed this report from Charlie's Pasture: With the Big Ugly coming to a close, Mrs Y and I picked up some nice size crabs at Jane's and went to Charlie's Pasture Pier in Port A.
I caught the first big drum around 7pm, it measured 42"






The Sunset


Caught the 2nd drum around 9pm, she was just shy of 44".

Eun posted this report 3/30 from the South Jetty: Just got back last night.

no big blackies anywhere to be found @ Reddot. But some nice whiting and BIG grunt perch. Decent specks hitting under the lights caught 1 keeper but let the little guy go since i was jus fishing to burn time while my baits soaked.

In the morning the weather and the water were nice and warm and GREEN.

we caught our 2 day limit on sheepshead on live/dead shrimp. At the very end of the jetty



also caught me a nice pompano. Everything was caught a medium/light action rod with 12lbs test line and a lemon rig set @ about 8ft with kahle hook and using a cork rather than a lemon juice thing. Also, tossed a spoon and caught 2 small smacks....and hooked into, but missed, something BIG.

And Offshore from Deep Sea Headquarters 3/29 They reported Amberjack, Almaco jack, Kings, Vermillion Snapper, Warsaw Grouper, Spinner Shark.

3/19 Good offshore Bite on King Mackerel this week at Deep Sea Headquarters - Expect that King Bite to continue out on the rocks gradually the Kings will move in closer to shore and finally near the Jetties towards the end of April into May.

2/18 Offshore Port A via CCbobber and Funmeter Gene - They went on the 12hr trip at DSH on Wednesday 2/17 . Lots of Kings, Vermillion Snapper, and some African Pompano and a couple of Amberjacks.

 

11/19 Offshore Port A from Deep Sea Headquarters - Brenda says the Floater trips have been great averaging 80lb Yellowfin Tuna. Sunday, they came in with a 340lb Mako. Bhr and 12 hr trips reporting King Mackerel, occasional Ling, Vermillion Snapper and Sharpnose Sharks. Blackfin Tuna are still scarce on the 12hr trips. Look for the Blackfin action to improve with better weather.

11/5 Offshore Port A from Deep Sea Headquarters - Peggy says the 12 hour trips are getting Blackfin Tuna, and the 8hr trips are seeing a few Blackfin Tuna, King Mackerel, Atlantic Sharpnose Sharks and Vermillion Snapper.

10/5 A jetty report from 9/30 from Island Mike - I decided to change it up a little today and made my first trip to the Port A jetties - Nicole tagged along to keep me company. Headed out about 5:30pm. The plan was to head out to the end in search of bull reds on spoon'r lures. The conditions were nice, the water was clear and the waves weren't too bad. So we hike it all the way down to the end and I find a nice rock to throw from. First cast........lost my $6 2oz outcast. So I tie on the 1 oz and throw it for a bit before goin over to check the channel side. A couple of casts over there and I managed to lose my only remaining spoon'r. So I'm sittin there for a while kinda bummed since all I had left was a soft plastic and some mirrolures. I decide to go back toward shore and fish the rocks and the guts. On the way back I see a guy with a fly rod and I could tell he was workin something. As I get closer he says" Hey...there's tarpon rollin here....they're small, but there might be some good ones." So I tell him I don't wanna potlick, but he insists. If I had been standing there I can honestly say that I MIGHT not have done the same. So anyway.....I throw out and the my paddle tail is hit immediately. The tarpon jumps a few times and then shakes me loose. I throw right back out and hook another......but this one is MUCH better than the first. The fight is INSANE. Jumped about 5-6 times on me and made a few strong runs as well. As I was fighting mine, the guy with the fly rod hooks up and lands another nice one. I didn't get pics of his since we were workin hard to get em released. Mine was a bit bigger than his, but not by much. Here's the pics (not quite the best..but they do the job). My first trip to the Port A jetties and my first Tarpon. What a day!

9/17 Lots of Reds at the Jetty - Offshore more King Mackerel, Sharpnose Shark and ling. Expect a few Tarpon at the end of the Jetty and in the surf at San Jose Island.

8/31 King Mackerel! - King Mackerel have been great just outside the jetties and up San Jose Island. Offshore the fishing has been good with perfect sea conditions the past week. The 8hr trips on Deep Sea Headquarters have been catching, Kings, Ling, a few dorado aka Dolphin, and sharks. Here is what we caught this past Thursday. Thanks to Lloyd the best deck hand ever.

Tyler

8/21 Mustang Island Surf Trout Report via Rick Sanders - Caught some nice trout north of Packery during week of 8/8 to 8/13. Seems I managed at least one large trout over 23” each day. On the 8th I kept 5 measuring 25,24,23,18, and 18 inches. On the 10th I kept a limit, all over 18 inches with a 25” and a 23”. On the 13th the water got beautiful and crystal clear. When I would hook a trout several more would follow it in. Some were huge and swam right by me.

At about 10:30 that day I got hit by a small stingray. My first time after all these years of fishing the surf barefoot. Luckily it was a small ray and only penetrated about ½ inch. On a pain scale of 0 to10 it was about a 5 or 6 consistently with some pains shooting up to 8 or 9 for a couple of seconds. This lasted for about 2 hours and was gone completely by about 3 hours. I can’t imagine the pain if it had been a big one that penetrated farther. As it didn’t seem to be getting worse and the fishing was very good I shined on the pain and went back to fishing after about 5 minutes. I wear ray boots in the bay but probably will continue to take my chances barefoot in the surf. Funny but I didn’t step on the ray but just stepped next to it and I guess frightened it enough to whip me.

Released many, many fish that were 16 to17 inches. All were caught on free lined piggies. I did try lures early every day but had no luck.

8/14 - Federal Snapper Closes on 8/15 - Fishing for Red Snapper has been excellent as the federal season comes to a close. Here Travis and Jennifer Williams of Marble Falls show off fish they caught 8/7.

 

Nephew, Tyler Williams caught this barracuda

 

The highlight of the trip was seeing this whale shark - Photo Courtesy of Craig Lusinger

 

 

7/21 - Reel Beast with a report - We hit it again yesterday, in search of Kings and Snaps. It was a little snotty out there by mid-morning, but we finally made it out to the snapper bank. During our five man limit, the seventh fish went eleven pounds, the eight was 14 pounds, the the ninth fish was 24 pounds. We pulled the next legal fish and left them biting. We hit one shrimp boat on the way in and nailed a 30 pound king on light gear, and we were done. Great day fishing, and with the seas rolling we even got some dance lessons in.

7/21 Port A Near Shore via Lost Cajun 7/17 - Had to work the Sheriff's Association Conference in Corpus this weekend and my coworker/friend from Austin Dawson, invited me to come in early and fish with him on his 20' Robolo "Chief". Also joining us was another Austinite David.

We set out from AP around 2:30 for the frist anchorage and had baits in the water by 3:30.

A couple of jack up rigs apearently stacked out at the anchorage.


Our first strike came about 3:45 a nice King about 38". I grabed the rod and quickly brought it to the boat when we noticed a nice sized Ling was following it in. Dawson grabed the gaff and got ready to bring my fish abord and David dropped a bait for the Ling. Just as my fish hit the deck we hear David's reel go off as he hooks up on the Ling. After a short struggle the ling is brought along side and since it was larger than the King and obviously a keeper I did the honors with the gaff and we had two nice fish on board before 4:00. Things got fuzzy for me after that because as I went to gaff the Ling my glasses slid off my nose and fell into Davey Jones Locker.

We regroupped, got the lines back out and started trolling again. The next strike came about 5:00. And Dawson reeled small King just as we passed the stern of one of the ships in the anchorage. David landed it by hand and released it.

About 15 minutes later we hook up on another King and and David lands a 30" king for the box.

Next strike came about 5:30 and I picked up the rod, set the hook and started to fight the fish when I noticed it break the water. No King this time, but another Ling. The fish jumped 3 times and put on a nice fight, but turned out to be a little short so we released it.

The action slowed and we decided to head in about 6:30 so we could troll around the Jettys for a while before calling it a day. When we got there we found a feeding frenzy in progress with the water boiling and the and birds bombing several school of glass minows.

The picture does not do justice to the action. It was like that in every direction.

We put the lines out and started trolling and a few minutes later we passed by the edge of a boil we got a strike and I grabbed the rod and passed it off to Dawson. He quickly brought the fish along side and I gaffed another nice King, the largest of the trip.

The rest of the day the action was unbelieveable. The strikes came three and four at a time and as we would grab the rods and start fighting the fish it would usually get cut off. On the second such multiple strike event David hooks up on something large and as he sets the hook the other three rods went off. Those three all got cut off quickly but David's fish was headed for Cuba. He never really slowed it down even after increasing the drag pressure on the Avet 6/0 and after about 3 or 4 minutes the fish either broke the 25 lb test or got cut off.

We rigged back up and troll around the action again and had another multiple hook up event where all but one got cut off. Again it was David's fish that stayed on and and it was another nice fish. After a nice fight he got it close enough to see that it was a keeper size tail hooked Kingfish, or so we thought. When he got it along side we could see it was actually a very large Spanish Mackerel. So large in fact we had to gaff it to land it because of the tail hook. After measuring it at 29" we called it a day and headed in about 8:00.

All agreed this was one of our best days of life. One we'll talk about for years to come.


Left to Right. Dawson, myself and David.

7/1-7/12 Megarockstar Nyati Report - Scott finished the report...

Man... Lots of fish. Beware, LONG REPORT

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7/1 Rockstar Nyati Report 6/27 - 6/28 - A full crew boarded the Nyati Friday afternoon, with its hopes set high on various pelagic battles to be had. Capt. YT had made his modifications to the boat and we were ready for another long weekend trip. We make it out packery late in the afternoon and the voyage begins. There was a slightly higher onshore wind pickup than we had hoped for and with the wind and swells come nearly straight south, it made for a very wet ride. We traveled through the night anticipating the morning bite upon our arrival.

Come sunrise, we are out to a familiar location. The seas and wind are starting to taper off and things look good. Lots of structure around us, lets hope the fish cooperate.


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The morning bite is pretty slow and things are questionable. Bait is slightly scarce and not abundant as we've usually seen. The weed is also hardy present in the gulf making us ponder the method and direction of the predators. We continue to troll in the blazing heat.


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After a while we finally get our first knockdown. Mickey hops in the chair anxious to see what we have encountered.


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Here she comes...


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A couple minutes later the decks are bloodied by the thumping of a panicking Wahoo.


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This baby is being dedicated to sushi and gets iced down immediately.


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Shortly after Nate gets us another Wahoo that comes in Lit-Up


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We continue to troll around hoping for more afternoon goodness.


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About an hour or two later our prayers are answered and Nate gets back in the chair and hammers a trolled up Yellowfin Tuna.


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This baby is carefully taken care of and preserved for more sushi...


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A couple hours later things begin to pick back up and we get Jay in the chair (It's not a bucket this time!). He is excited and ready to beat up on some fish!


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Action on the surface as he brings it in...


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Not long and in comes a beautiful Bull Dorado


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Great job Jay on a week's supply of Mahi Sandwiches for us!!!


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Right now we are pondering about the lack of billfish in the area, despite some of the other good eats making their way on-board. YT takes a break and refuels...


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We keep on trolling hoping for a monster. I manage to take a cool pic, which would also make a sweet wallpaper for all you Nyati-ites...


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This pic turned out pretty good as well.


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As daylight fades, the Tuna-torch from the rig blazes on..


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Come dark YT, Scott, and Nate crash out after giving a great effort on the day crew. Night crew is up to bat, and out on a mission... TUNA. Things for the first few hours are very slow. Until midnight I think we only had maybe 4 Blackfin including this monster by Bizzy


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After midnight, things begin to pick up. I get an average Yellow on a Jig.


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Shortly after, Mickey nails his first keeper YFT, on a jig...


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By now we are loading up on Blackfin and have a nice bait stash. Bizzy ends up nailing the always elusive Black Jack.


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We decide to make some long drifts for a while to see what would happen. We also begin chumming and after about 15 minutes we begin to get some action in the lights. It is time. I get out the custom Popper from HWK and break her in. It was so beautiful and the work is simply amazing, I almost felt guilty for using it.. but not really.. muhaha


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Within a couple seconds, on the very first cast, Tuna blow the crap out of it. The first one missed, but never fear, a couple seconds later his buddy exploded on the surface after it. Very Cool. A job well done on the lure Howard!

This was the first and probably smallest of the Topwater Blackfin (and released)


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I continue to play with the topwater and catch some really grander Blackfin Tuna. Since the ice maker hasn't really caught up with us, we have no reason to keep the Blackfin anyway and release all that are candidates for release.

We pull back to the rig and make another LONG drift... chumming like crazy. With daylight about an hour away, it is all or nothing. Fortunately I hook up again, this time on cutbait and land my 4th Yellowfin of the wee hours of the night.


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As we are about to wrap things up Bizzy is able to sucker a Rainbow Runner in the lights...


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It is now daylight once again, and YT, Scott, and Nate get after it.


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Unfortunately things are amazingly slow in the morning. We fish and troll for a few hours with merely nothing. YT decides it is time for a cleansing and we cool off in the water for a bit. I go to the front and realize what may be the reason the Marlin are currently fearing the boat..


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Like a scene out of an old monster flick...


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We get out, and run a couple hours towards home.. then come up on the shelf and put lines back out. Shortly we get several knockdowns by mystery fish. After about an hour we get some excitement. Up on top I see the fish just after it hit and is a brute. Nate hops in the chair and begins battle.


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A few minutes later and we have him surfing on in to the ice box...


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I get the leader and YT sticks it with a gaff, and over comes one of the largest Wahoo i've ever seen.


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Congrats Nate on a Massive 'hoo!


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We trolled for about an hour more only being pestered by Bonita. We call it a weekend and head in with some top quality table-fare, much of it will go into the beautiful art of sushi making, and eating.

Thanks to YT and the great crew of the Nyati. Also thanks to Nate's chick Sarah for taking pics when we were all busy in the mayhem. We may not have got any bills this time, but we made up for in other goodies and plain ole fun. We will have our revenge on the pointy bills very soon I suspect.

 

7/1 1 Reel Beast goes on a scouting run - We picked up a tail less King also, short one on the stairs. Short scouting trip to 22 miles, lots of Kings, Barracudas, and of course the highly endangered Red Snapper.

 

6/27 Stump filed this report - Fished the short rigs out of Port A on 6-27-09 and caught some Kings and a Cobia. The Cobia was caught on a perch site casted and the Kings on ribbons.

6/4 Come Sail Away - Several sailfish reported caught at the Port Aransas Jetty Mouth this week. Though it is not unheard of it is not all that common either. Texas Charter Fleet has the complete details at http://www.texascharterfleet.com/fishingreport.htm This is Kay and Bill Culpepper June 2nd.

5/28 More from Memorial Day Weekend from Hoggeman - We fished with our two friends in Port A on the Mar Azul 8 miles offshore and 26 miles up from Port A. The fishing was Hot!!! We caught Snapper, Red Fish, Drum, Tom Tom, Trigger, Shark, Sting Ray, Strawberry Grouper, Ling, Kingfish, Blue Runner, Jack fish, and Sand trout. We used cut Bait, Squid, Mullet, Pin Perch, Gulps, Rattle traps and live shrimp. We fished around the larger rigs in state waters so we could keep the snapper. We also lost a large ling after a 25 minute battle. We broke a rod in 1/2 using Gulps mullet yellow and green watch your drag offshore "note to self". I will say for a while we stopped fishing and started catching.
Hoggeman

5/23 Yakmon Beyond the Breakers in Port A - I had been watching the weather all week hoping the window would stay open for some much needed offshore paddling, and it did! I slept near the Port A jetty to beat the crowd and hit the water before sunrise around 6:00am.



I could see the faint outline of birds diving in the distance chasing some prey and hoped I would find some kingfish nearby. As I paddled through schools of bait fish, I didn't see any predators at first, but as the sun continued to rise, I noticed schools of little tunny destroying bait at the end of the jetty. I cast a small spoon on a steel leader into the crowd, but they wouldn't touch my offering. After repeated casts, I finally cut the leader off and hooked up immediately to a mini freight train on very light tackle. I was rewarded with a 6 pound shark bait!



I caught a few of these and then decided to head out to some rigs I could see in the distance. I trolled spoons for a long time and ran into a couple more schools of little tunny, but nothing bigger. I cast around weed lines, but no luck. I finally made it to the rig and tried some cut little tunny on the bottom for snapper, but I just caught a couple of hardheads.....these rigs have been picked clean of all bottom fish. I trolled around the rigs and had a couple of hook ups from kings, but couldn't get a solid hook set on the lures I was using. Most of my bites were on a spro bucktail jig with a large pink grub tail added. I also got a couple on a large kastmaster spoon. I went 0 for 6 on kings. Next time I will use ribbonfish! There were lots of boats on these rigs and they were all catching kings on ribbonfish. Most were trolling, but there were a few tied to the rig using unweighted ribbonfish. Most of the kings were 15-20 pounds with a couple of bigger ones mixed in.

I caught one more little tunny at the rig and as I was fighting it, I noticed a small ling cruising around the kayak, looking at me for an offering. I threw a couple of pieces of bait overboard to keep him interested, landed the little tunny and dropped a small spoon overboard. He ingested it immediately, and shortly thereafter, I had my first ling of the year.


Small, but fun on light tackle. The hook came out easily for a good release.

I paddled to a rig further to the South just as I started to hear the sound of thunder in the distance. A very large black cloud was hanging around on the shore with cloud to ground lightning and heavy rain. I fished for a while longer hoping the cloud would go away. I had forgotten to take my handheld GPS and didn't realize how far I was from the jetty. I asked a man in a boat to look up the distance and he said, "it is 6 miles from here to the jetty." Great! I began my long journey to the beach about the time the wind switched offshore and began to pick up. The flat seas became a little choppy at the wind picked up to about 15-20 mph and it was now raining. The wind was also blowing straight at me - offshore! I paddled for about an hour and a half into the head wind and didn't seem to be making much progress. About that time the wind calmed back down and it was easy sailing again.

I paddled about 17 miles yesterday and got so sunburned I can barely walk, but what a great day on the water. The green water was most of the way to the beach but it didn't get much better the further out I paddled. Spotty weed was present in the water, but didn't hamper trolling. I only caught 1 Smack today and was surprised there weren't more out there. Should be good fishing today too!

Yakmon

5/14 South Port A Jetty - Lots of Skipjacks and Spanish Mackerel caught recently. Watch out for Jack Crevalles as they have been taking lures meant for smaller quarry and the result is usually a spooled reel. King Mackerel, Atlantic Sharpnose Shark, Vermillion Snapper and Ling have been caught offshore.

5/6 Cinco De Mayo Corpusfishing Charter - CCBOBBER arranged a 12hr Charter with 19 other members of Corpusfishing.com's message forums. Here is Rabbit's Photo and Description. "In the picture showing the total catch for the day starting from left to right. Hammerhead Shark, 2 stringers vermillion snapper, African Pompano, Amberjack, King Mackerel, Dolphinfish or Dorado, Cobia, African Pompano, Amberjack, 2 stringers vermillion snapper. All the stringers on the ground are vermillion snapper. Some people caught more some less but every one had a great time. The Captain and crew did a great job in my opinion. The ship we were on was called the Pelican and its out of DeepSea Headquarters in Pt Aransas, Texas." More

A couple pics that I took or had taken. This was my first offshore trip and I really enjoyed it. The weather cooperated for a change. There were a lot more pictures taken by other people hopefully they will post theirs. The captain and crew did a very good job.

Waiting for every one to get there.


On the boat waiting to leave


My stringer of vermillion snapper weighed 31 lbs


My Amberjack weighed 19 lbs


Picture of all the fish caught


Myself, robert, gene, nita and sharon paid to get our fish cleaned while we went over to Fins for dinner. Talk about lazy fisherpersons.

 

4/1 Kayaking the Jettys with Yakmon on Sunday - He reported on the message board: I headed out to the jetties for some kayak fishing on Sunday. I saw a few macs busting the water in the early morning, but didn't have much luck with them. I trolled a 1 oz spoon around on my kayak and caught an early season king at the mouth of the jetties. It wasn't much of a king, but cool nonetheless. I trolled from the jetty to Horace Caldwell a couple of times and headed out to the buoys in the channel with only 1 micro king and one small spanish (released). The water was off color but there was a slight color change around 100 yards past the end of the jetty that moved in with the tide. No seaweed at all in the water, and the water was a little nippy. The mouth of the jetty was boiling with whitecaps as far as you could see. Lots of people on the jetty fishing, but I didn't see many fish caught. One large flounder was caught on the first few feet of the jetty on the surf side, and there were some folks catching large sheepies just off the end of the South jetty.
Here is a pic of my first king for the year....haha.



Off the end of the South jetty.

3/21 Offshore Adventures - Mary Ann Reports A boat load of King fish and a nice Amberjack was brought in on an 8 hour trip aboard the Adventurer out of Offshore Adventures, 3/21/09. A great day fishing!!!! Kayak fisherman out of Crab Man Marina have been bringing in some nice red fish and speckled trout from the Lighthouse Trails. Bay fisherman have brought in red fish, speckled trout, sand trout, red fish, black drum, sheephead, and a few flounder.

3/20 St Patty's Day !2 Hr from Offshore Adventures - Mary Ann says "Offshore Adventures had a great day on the 12 hour trip aboard the Adventurer. Sunshine, Blue water and 19 black fin tuna made the anglers very happy. They also caught several nice king fish, mangrove snapper, vermilon snapper, and lane snapper. Other trips have brought in limits of kingfish and vermilon snapper. Bay fisherman have been catching red fish, black drum, trout, and a few flounder."

3/4 from 3/2 Offshore Report from Robul - We had a small window and we took it. We ran out of port A early Monday morning it was a nice chilly 44 degrees. We where out of the jetty's before sun up and pointed the bow towards southern. We where on a mission for some wahoo. We got to southern probably around 730-745 and started our troll. We put ballyhoo on the outside out far and up close we where fishing Yozuri divers. It was pretty slow at first only a few knock downs on the outside which where kingfish. Major feed was at or around 10 am and the little watch didn't lie this time. Right on schedule around 1015 all 4 got knocked down. 3 came in real easy I knew they where kings. The one I picked up was on my 6/0 wide and it was giving me a good little run. Got it to the surface and to my pleasant surprise it was a Black fin Tuna probably around 25 lbs. Man I was happy Dinner tonight is gonna be yummy! We got back on our troll not 20 minutes later another double knock down. This was what we where looking for long hard fast run these where definitely not kings. I had one pole and my buddys friend had the other he was puking all morning.. haah. we told him too bad catch this fish. We worked these fish for a good 10 minutes and I finally get mine to the surface. Hell yeah its a Hooter she looked to be about 45-50 lbs.. She saw the boat and she went to the surface and turned and shook her head and she was gone just like that. Man I was ******!!! The sick guy gave up on his and handed the pole over. Another 4-5 minutes we got the other hoo to the surface this one wasn't getting away. got the gaff in it and on board she went. Probably around 45 lbs is a guesstimate. we set out another spread and trolled for hours only to get picked up by kingfish. We tried a drift put one on the bottom hoping for a jew fish but only picked up snapper on our circle hooks. Broke out the venting tool poked em and let them go. It was a beautiful day on the water mostly 1-2s with a few 3s mixed in. I saw at least 5 other boats out there 4 of them where > 20 foot single engine boats. You wouldn't catch me that far out with just one engine!! We where in the Bertram (sea hawk) if it was any of you guys out there. Iv got some pics at the house on my camera I'll post them up later. Also a quick vid of a mako giving us a nice show probably made 10 good jumps 75 yards of our stern. The cap said he was a baby though > 200 lbs looked pretty big to me though.







heres the vid good jump right in the start and towards the middle.. there may be some unapproriate language on . so be careful at work but the audio you cab barely hear..
enjoy
http://www.ccstreetscene.com/multimedia/robbie/fish/mar02/mako.AVI

2/19 Offshore Report from Deep Sea Headquarters - Dan says when they have been able to get out, the 8 and 12hr trips are producing lots of Kingfish, Vermillion Snapper, and Sharks. Wednesday's trip produced an 81lb Warsaw Grouper and a Blacktip Shark over 100lbs.

1/29 Offshore Report from Deep Sea Headquarters - The 8 hr trips are producing King Mackerel, Atlantic Sharpnose Sharks and Vermillion Snapper. The 48hr trips are enjoying great fishing for Blackfin and Yellowfin Tuna, Amberjacks and Mahi Mahi have also been caught.

Some nice specks reported this week on the Surf side of the south jetty on Mirrolures. Lots of Sheepshead around too!

12/31 Offshore 8hrs with Deep Sea Headquarters - My kids and a friend went on the 8hr trip on Tuesday 1/30 see bottom pic. There was a good crowd on board and everyone caught vermillion snapper and blue runners. Five Atlantic Sharpnose sharks were reported, in addition Lane Snapper were also brought in. I got this screen shot from the Portanow.com Deep Sea Headquarters Cam. Visit them for some great pics. Check in each afternoon around 3:30 to see the 8hr catches.

11/13 :Port A - Charlie's Pasture is Open! - Charlie's Pasture has reopened just in time to catch the tail end of the Flounder run.

Offshore via Deep Sea Headquarters - Long Range Tuna Trips have been producing Yellowfin and Blackfin Tuna and Dorado. Here is the catch from Capt. Brennan's long range trip 11/2

10/31 Offshore via Deep Sea Headquarters -Here is a pic from Wednesday's 12hr. 518# Bull Shark, limits of Kingfish, Shark and Vermillion Snapper.

Pitbull had this Jetty Report - ME AND OLD TIMER HIT UP THE AP JETTY TODAY AND COMENCED TO SLAYING THE BULLS IN TOTAL WE BROUGHT IN 13 AND LOST 7 ALL RANGING FROM 35 TO 40 INCHS ALL FISH LANDED WHERE CAUGHT ON CUT MULLET
HOPE YOU ENJOY THE PICS

10/23 Offshore via Deep Sea Headquarters - The 12hr trips have been getting Blackfin Tuna, some Mahi Mahi, Atlantic Sharpnose Sharks, Vermillion Snapper and Kings. 8hr Trips getting King Mackerel and Atlantic Sharpnose Sharks.

10/16 Offshore via Deep Sea Headquarters - This 12hr Charter from 10/13 on the New Pelican got into Blackfin Tuna, Vermillion Snapper and Atlantic Sharpnose Shark.

North Jetty via Hoggeman from last weekend. Looks Like Redfish, Flounder and Spanish Mackerel biting.

 

10/9 Offshore via Deep Sea Headquarters - Captain Kelly tells me "We are catching Kingfish, Shark, Vermillion Snapper, Ling and a few Blackfin Tuna on our offshore trips"

Here is a catch from a 12hr trip 9/27

 

9/20 Port Aransas North Jetty 9/20 from Hardheadted - My son,Eric, and I camped three days on the N. Jetty and all I can say is it was insane with the reds in the corner of the jetty and beach. We caught a limit each day and released probably 40 or 50 more reds. Eric caught 5 oversize and I caught one. There were so many there I quit using my reg. rod, an ugly stick with an Okuma CD50, same for Eric, and started using my ultra light. Probably caught and released 10 or 15 including the 1 oversize on the ultralite. only 1 racoon spotted all weekend and 1 coyote. The final count for the 3 days was 18 reds,21" to 27 3/4", 1 trout 17", one black drum 21". Surf was dirty and full of grass but that's where the Redfish were. Never even made it out to the shark shack or the end of the jetty. very time I woould start out Eric would holler -- "Dad get the net!!!" What a week !

8/26 Port A - Dean Slowride Thomas made a run with son Nico this past weekend in search of Kings but instead caught lots of Spanish Macks

Nico hooked up

 

Here is Jason's late report from 8/14 Got offshore around 2:30PM out of port A. We we going to troll around the inshore rigs for some kings. Picked up one king at our third rig. While trolling around the rig a tree washed by so we went and checked it out and caught 2 undersize ling. pulled back up to the rig and hooked up with a nice ling on a trout rod. Fish didnt know it was hooked and we swam her right up to the boat. Brian got it up to the boat and I was like its too green to gaff! tried to lip gaff it with a berkley grip but we quickly decided we would rather loose a $10 academy gaff than the liper. I stuck it, and sure enough it went crazy and ripped the chord off my wrist the gaff went one way and the ling swam off with a nice wahoo lure in tow. Oh well. We were at the sandpipes at this point and started seeing flying fish! After losing the ling we were bummed and couldnt end on a bad note so we stopped at some surface action and I pitched my bucktail jig on my curado at the fish. I got hooked up and was ready for the king to break me off when it jumped and I yelled MAHI! Couldn't believe it after about a 10 minute fight we get her boat side and a bull was swimming right under her. Brian dropped a bait and got him hooked up we successfully gaffed him. Brian gaffed mine and we headed in! What a day!

1 king
2 Mahi's
3 Ling





Jason Slocum

8/14 Port A via Deep Sea Headquarters - Prior to the rains last week I went out to Port A to inspect the catches on Thursday's 8 hour trip. Lots of Kingfish and a surprising amount of large Bonnetnosed sharks along with some small Barracuda and a Bluefish. view from FINS restaurant. Below, Tom Finch of San Diego inspects the day's catch.

8/08 Port A via Deep Sea Headquarters - DSH reports Wednesday's 12 hr trip yielded a limit of hings, a blackfin tuna and some grouper. The 8hr trips have brought in Atlantic Sharpnose Shark, a few Mahi mahi and Kings. Federal Snapper season closed earlier this week. Weekend seas look fine.

7/17 Port A - Jetties are looking good for Kings! Calm seas for the next few days. Kyle T aka "Ginman" filed this report from 7/13 We Met a friend of mine Larry Mathys at the Marina Port A Sunday morning at 5:00am with Alfonzo, Joseph, Mike, Me, and my 5 year old son Kolton.

We do some cast netting on our way out, but do not have much luck, only putting another 6 - 8 live baits in the live bait well.

Make our way to the Jetty's and are met with 2 - 3 foot seas, but with a 15 plus knot wind, there was no back to them, and it was a bit bumpy going out. We take our time and put out a few lines and do some trolling as we head to our destination. Not long after that, we have our first knock down of the day, and Kolton puts our first fish in the box, a 10 - 12 pound king.

 

Put the lines back out, and a few minutes later Joseph puts his biggest king to date in the box. This trend continues as we keep boxing some more kings. We then get a big knock down and this fish just keeps taking the line off the reel. But after a 6 - 7 minute battle, and he spits the hook out. Not sure what it was, did not really fight like a king fish, but based on the pull, I bet it would have gone over 60 lbs!!!

The kingfish bite stops as we get into the deeper water, and we are limited with what we can put in the spread because the water is dirty with scattered weed everywhere.

We do get a couple more knockdowns and both of these are around 36" Mahi's.

We finally get to our first stop, and in less then 20 minutes we have our 6 man limit of snapper. Kolton was bringing them up 2 at a time (pic attached). We were selective on the ones we were keeping, releasing the smaller ones.

The seas had calm down to 1 - 2', and it was becoming a gorgeous day on the water.

We move on to our 2nd stop, and the current is moving so fast, we can barely get our lines to the bottom before we our off the spot. We try a couple more times, but nothing to show for it so we move on.

On our way to our next stop, we find a great weed line and start fishing it. We put several Chicken dolphins in the box and then decide to troll this weed line. We get a couple knockdowns but it is chickens, hitting some lures that were almost as big as them!!! After 45 minutes, and nothing to show for it, we bring the lines in and go to another spot in the area.

Next spot has fish all over the place, but again the current was moving too fast, and it was very difficult to get our lines down. The few knockdowns we did get, the fish went back into the structure and broke the line. We did hook a 4 1/2 foot shark on the kingfish line, and brought the fish to the leader after about a 15 minute fight. We released that fish, stuck around for another 20 minutes and called it a day.

We hit the dock with limits of Snapper, Kings, and 17 chickens. a very good day in our book.

7/11 Port A via Deep Sea Headquarters - DSH reports excellent fishing for King Mackerel and Snapper on both the 8 and 12 hr trips. Some Ling, and a few large sharks coming in too. A 70lb Wahoo was caught this week.

7/09 Port A Offshore - Squalls and rough weather made it tough on smaller boats in the Deep Sea Roundup. My friend Mako has a good report here on extremecoast.com

Check out this smoker king from 7/03

 

I caught this 50 pound kingfish last thursday off an oil rig about 20 miles out of port aransas. I free lined ribbon fish and hooked up with this about 30 seconds after I let out the bait.

Patrick Meyer

 

 

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