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[lildave360]

The journey begins Thursday morning at 5 am in Austin, TX. The alarm goes off. I pop out of bed like a child eagerly awaiting Christmas morning. I quickly gather my belongings and load up in the truck. A quick kiss good by to the misses and I'm on the road headed down I-35 toward paradise. A quick 3 hours later and I'm rolling into Corpus. My mind racing a hundred miles per hour pondering what might be. A quick stop at Cosway for some live bait (shrimp and perch) and I'm off again, in hot pursuit of Bob Hall Pier. I finally arrive around 10ish to setup shop. I unload the cart,my rods, and the rest of the gear, and proceed down the pier. The first place I stop and setup is btw the 2nd gut. I setup shop and not a few moments later my good buddy Jaime from Alice shows up. He is here for the long haul just like I am. We both set up and after a few hours of fishing with live piggy perch nothing to show for it. We switch to live shrimp and we start catching whiting and more perch. At this time I figure it's time for me to bust out the cast net and see if I can find some finger mullet. I spot a few in the surf and bam I get about a half dozen and 2 horse mullets. So we thrown them in the bucket and hook a few up and still nothing. After trying all day in the second gut we decide to relocate towards the end of the pier. We setup shop at the end of the pier and try there for another 3 or 4 hrs and nothing. At this point I had walked back toward the front of the pier and noticed more mullet in the surf. I told my buddy lets move back since we weren't catching at the end and we decided to do so. So we set up shop in the second gut again with nothing to show. Around 4 AM I noticed large schools of horse mullet running in the guts so I netted up about a dozen for cut bait the next day. I finally get about an hr or two of sleep and when the sun starts to rise so do I. I re rig all my rods with fresh cut mullet and around 8 AM my friend Jaime gets hit and hit hard. But with his luck the fish runs under the pier and around the pylon and snap, the line breaks. He is upset of course but that's life. Then about 20 minutes later my rod goes off. I set the hook and I tell Jaime this one isn't getting away. We get him landed and it turns out to be a nice 26 1/2" red. Looks like this fish had a run in with a shark cause he had a nice little bite mark on him. Soon after that the rain begins and we have to seek shelter. After about 10 minutes of heavy rain it stops just as quickly as it had begin. We head back to our spot and re rig and bam another run on my same rod. Jaime grabs the rod this time since i wasn't close by and brings in a nice 22 inch" red. We re rig and bam another one, this time it was under sized. A quick pic and release back to the gulf. This would continue through out the day, picking up reds here and there. One guy even asked us what we were using and we gave him some mullet and on the first cast bam, he hooks up with a 23" red. He then proceeds to ask if we would sell him some of our bait and I told him I had plenty and didn't mind sharing with him. So he cast again and bam he gets another, but it was undersized. And then the bite just turned off. They were gone just as quick as they had appeared. The afternoon was slow with nothing to show, but once the sun went down the bite would turn on again. We caught more reds and heard reports that people were catching drum down at the end. So my buddy Jaime moves on down to the end and proceeds to catch one as well as his 3rd red, but really his second red since one of those was technically on my rod. lol Anyhow, we both end up catching our limit of reds for the day and release many more. We saw many people catching reds around us. I guess if you were in the right spot you were getting hooked up. Saturday morning we started out early again after a few hrs of sleep. I netted up some shad that was in the surf and free lined him on my light rod. Not even 5 minutes later, bam another red. this one would measure at 24". After that we would catch more undersized and call it a day around noon.

Overall, this trip was very successful. We had a blast and the fishing was off the hook!

Total fish for the trip was 7 keeper reds, and 1 black drum. Almost all were caught on cut mullet, figure mullet, and live shad.

Here are a few pic i hope you enjoy!!!

This my set up at the pier.



This is me with my first two red of the day. If you look closely you can see the bite marks on the big one. The small one was released.



A few more pics of the pier. As you can see we had the pier to ourselfs.





This is a pic of the keepers of the trip.


Here is a pic of my buddy Jaime Z and myself sporting our catches.


Me posing with the fish!! lol


Jaime posing with the fish! Don't let him fool you he only caught 2 of those fish!

[ironmanstan]

Nice 7 reds and a drum.
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[Lord of the Hardheads]

Congrats on the Fish. Those all day and all night trips are always a blast.
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[Skillzzz9]

Good day at BHP. Didn't look too crowded
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[FB PHIL]

Glad to see you guys had some luck after I left Fri at around noon. I remember seeing and talking to you guys. I was out there this morning and snagged a drum about the same size as the one in your pics and had a heck of a time hand lining him up bymyself with 15# test line. No one else was catching anything today and the water was rough and sandy colored.

[OutCast]

Sweet trip report, good pics. That BHP sure looks empty for a weekend w/ so many reds in the surf.

[THE_BLUFF_RAT]

nice catch guys...but by the number of fish in the pics, im hoping there was a third person in your group...
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[Chef Lefty]

Sweet work on an "Off Weekend"

Hook'em Horns!!!

Thanks for the pics.
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[snakecan2]

yup.. with game warden you have some explaining to do with no avail..
nice report, watch out on daily and bag limits.
dont give UT a bad rap by posting over bag limits..

oh by the by Gigem Aggies..
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Fish and Hunt Baby.... so tight lines and clear scopes.

[Central Scrutinizer]

Just for reference, check Page 29 of the 2009-2010 Outdoor Annual. The last bullet item under "Possession of Fish"-

It is illegal to be in possession of a number of fish that exceeds the daily limit while actually fishing.

Not harping on you guys, but like other have pointed out, be sure of the Rules and Regs while out on the water (and especially when posting pictures with a story that backs up an infraction)

Nice stringer of fish, though, and an especially nice touch of sharing the wealth of your bait, especially in the context of some of the 'ruffians' that have been spotted by the locals, as of late.

[Ray]

Dave,

Great weekend and great fish. I'm glad you all did well; wish I could have been there with you!!!

I have never fished from Bob Hall Pier. What are the negatives?

Some one mentioned ruffians; what is that about? I just want to fish! I do not need trouble!!!!!!

I have thought of fishing the piers and levees but never have done it. Think I'll try it our next time I'm down.

Thanks!!

Ray
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[lildave360]

I guess non of you guys pay attention to detail. We were there from Oct 1st- 3rd. I caught my limit on Friday as did my buddy. And on Saturday morning I caught I caught 1 more. I guess if you would have read the report rather than just looking at the pics you would have noticed. Anyhow, I'm not trying to start a mud slinging contest but I just wanted to set you guys straight.


Thanks,

[lildave360]

I guess this is why I don't post many reports. You guys are often quick to judge someone. All it would have taken is a quick read of my report and you would have noticed we were there for almost 3 days.

Any who, just thought I would express my opinion!!!

Thx

[Skipjack]