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npikayaking1 · Joined: 12 May 2013 Posts: 4

I am new to the coast and learning how to fish down here. Have a small boat and would appreciate your direction on where to go in the North Padre Island and Packery area. Thanks and Merry Christmas to you all.

steve78412 · Posted: Mon Dec 09, 2013 6:20 pm Post subject:

The Fish Pass Jettties are where I've had great luck with sheepies. I used a sand pump to gather a limit of ghost shrimp, into my bucket of sand and water. I would fish just off of the rocks, usually about 5 feet deep using a regular hook and split shot, because you will lose a lot of rigs among the rocks. Drive right up to the jetty, make sure you have a beach parking permit, and walk out to near where a second tier of jetty rocks begin. I always fished on the side opposite of the channel, or where the channel would have been had it not been filled in.

Steve

mickeyd · Posted: Mon Dec 09, 2013 7:40 pm Post subject:

Not right area but there are some at the T in the Sailboat Channel between AP and Port A as well as next to the barge facility just W of Lydia Ann/Shrimpboat Channel(not far around the corner from Fina Docks). Look for the pile of rocks next to the sand flats just past the barge facility coming from the Lydia Ann/Shrimpboat Channel intersection running W away from Port A.
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landlocked beachbum · Posted: Mon Dec 09, 2013 7:47 pm Post subject:

I don't live down there of course, but on my visits I've seen more than a few really big ones on the channel side of the south Port A jetty, and darn close to the parking area. Wish I could come down and test that out!
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AcousTennis · Full Grown Flour Bluffian Joined: 13 Sep 2010 Posts: 1319

Any channel right now seriously. I wake up in the morning and just watch them eat off the pilings and walls around the canals and channels. If your brave hit the bridges and scrap off barnacles for chum. Drop a live shrimp down and wait for em. Try to back them out away from the pilings gently before you hookset or they will suicide run into the pilings.
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TexGator · Flour Bluffian in training Joined: 22 May 2012 Posts: 429

What AT said. scrape the barnacles works great

Mason · Horse Mullet Joined: 30 Dec 2007 Posts: 102

really anywhere with some sort of structure. rocks, jetties, bridge pilings, etc. live or dead shrimp, they usually arent that picky.
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joejoe7716 · Posted: Tue Dec 10, 2013 5:19 pm Post subject:

mickeyd · Posted: Tue Dec 10, 2013 6:27 pm Post subject:

Most of that area is within an area where a beach permit is usually required but you may have hit upon something with the boundary markers. The Fish Pass area itself is well outside the actual confines of the state park but maybe the beach area is considered otherwise. A good area for surf fishing for pomps as well.
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joejoe7716 · Posted: Tue Dec 10, 2013 7:11 pm Post subject:

http://port-aransas.net/mustang_island/fish_pass_jetties.aspx

steve78412 · Posted: Tue Dec 10, 2013 7:36 pm Post subject:

mickeyd · Posted: Tue Dec 10, 2013 8:43 pm Post subject:

Makes sense as we have been checked for permit just to the left of the access #2(towards the Mayan Princess, et. al. condos) when we last fished in that area.
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