10/1 Packery is Hot - Great reports coming in from Packery Jetties this week both in the main channel and on the surf side. Keeper trout have been hitting lures in the main channel, Spanish Mackerel, Ladyfish and Keeper Reds have also been taken in addition to a few Pompano and Snook.
Offshore from JayandCoyote 9/30 - Shot out of Packery about 4 this afternoon. Lots of birds were on the northside just off the beach. Every cast was a skipjack. There were a few smacks mixed in and we boxed a few.
Water looked great. Made leaving work early worth it.
Going out to the near rigs.
CPR'd this king and caught a few more smacks.
This was heading home at sunset.
9/23 Topdog15 Weekend and Monday Packery Jetty Reports - Capt. Nate and I fished South Packery on Thursday of last week. Got there around 1100 and fished until 1600. Green water and decent winds made for easy freelining. The amount of mullet was unreal and everyone of them was running from something. The spanish were thick and the action was hot and heavy. Bites were coming as soon as the bait hit the water. Saw lots of reds caught as well. Saw a couple tarpon and one cownose free jump. Nate fished Friday and said the bluefish had shown up w/ several free jumping kings spotted.
Sunday, my brother, Jacob, and I fished the jetty from 0700-1200. The winds were a bit heavier but the water was still gorgeous. Tons of spanish, bluefish, and redfish caught. We kept three spanish measuring 22,22,24 inches. The mullet were much less abundant and didn't show up until after 1000. Also got a report that a king was landed after we left.
Monday, my brother and I fished from 0700-1200. The surf had turned violent w/ the ENE wind piling up water on the North Jetty and the SE swell from Mexico crushing the South Jetty. We fished the south, but there was no place to stand w/o getting wet. The inside of the channel was emerald green but outside it was yoohoo. The mullet were completely gone but the gulf menhaden had moved in thick. The spanish seemed to have moved on for the most part due to the lack of mullet and the sheer size of the shad (they were huge). Reds and blues were the main predators but we did see a couple silver backs rolling around. Had one roll right on a popping cork rig I was fishing for reds. Also missed a small shark on a piece of cut shad.
All in all, it was a very interesting series of events to witness over the course of several days.9/17 Porfetus reported on the status of the North Jetty - As the water came rushing down the beach, eroding the toe of the dunes along the island, all the water and sand rushed into the channel near the base of the dunes on the north side, washing some of the medium sized capstones into the edge of the channel. it also washed tons and tons of sand into the channel at that location, causing a shoal to form. however, with the high water in the bays dropping out over several days, I believe that most of it started washing out immediately, and continues to do so as I type. By the weekend most of that shoal should be dissipated offshore and to the south side of the jetties in front of the seawall.
Last Sunday catches under the bridge included some gag grouper, sand trout, croaker and whiting.
9/09 Monday Report from B-1 83 - "Channel water was rotten, but the surf side was as clear as it's been in weeks. I nailed a limit of slot reds in about 2 hours time along with a bunch of tiny reds - 12 inchers. I was using some shrimp as big as the fish they caught."
Art Toscano of San Antonio with this 32" Snook Caught and released at the North Packery Jetty over Labor Day Weekend 8/31.
9/02 Billy Sandifer's recent Panga catches out of Packery -
David Webb of Austin with a 51" Ling sightcasted to with Spinning gear 8/25
Rick aka "Skipjack" Underbrink of San Antonio with a ling on 8/22
Carlos Vergara with a 52" Kingfish caught 8/24
8/30 Gib's Offshore Report - These are a couple of pictures from Offshore trip on Saturday. All in all, it was a good day to be wih family out on the water. Nothing spectacular, but we did manage some kings, spades, snapper, grouper, and ling.
The pictures are of one of my sons who is now the Spade fish master. The little guy was relentless as he wore his daddy out then he wore his Nanna out. Six years old and he can operate the #9 old fashioned Penn, but he needed help baiting ad taking the 100 million spade fish he caught off the hook. That little rascal caught more big Spade fish in one trip than I have ever seen.
The picture behind the truck is a 20" fatty. I told him he was 2 and half inches off the state record. That is a lot of length, but when you show a little guy two and half inches, their eyes bug out. It was priceless!!
Hopefully, here they are:
8/26 - Things are looking up at Packery with reports of Trout and reds caught on live bait. Water looking much better!
8/16 - Gafftop at Packery from "Gonefishing" who reports Last night we decided to go fish just down from the new boat ramp at Packery. We had one pound of dead shrimp, some leftover fishbites and some leftover croaker for cutbait is what we were using. From about 7 pm until 11 pm we got a few small croaker, but nothing spectacular. Right before midnight the gafftop started hitting. The largest we caught was just under 20". In total, we kept 5 gafftop and 10 croaker.
I know these croaker are nearly bait-sized small, but cleaned scaled and cooked for about 3 minutes in the microwave with some salt the taste is simply incredible.8/07 - Water has been dirty at times and the fishing for the most part has been slow. The north Packery surf side has seen cleaner water with some Trout, Skipjacks and even a nice Snook. Skooker Ed shown here with a 24.5 inch Common Snook he caught on a storm bait and released 8/4
7/29 - Lots of weed and brown water inside the channel. Jp3 had this report from 7/25 and 7/26"I made a quick trip about 3:45 with some bait i caught in my crab trap. Didn't do any good with it. The tide was ripping out pretty good. Water wasn't as brown as i thought it'd be. the surf was rough and brown, but nice looking green water wasn't too far out. Just before I left, I switched to a swim bait and landed 4 snook and a few ladyfish, making it a great day. Those were the first Snook I'd ever caught and the most fish I'd caught at Packery."I didn't have the camera Friday, but went out and caught a couple Sat. My wife had the camera so here's one pic. Not the greatest, but oh well. None of the fish were very big, 13-16", but they fight great. "
7/25 - Expect a lot of weeds and dirty water from the water emtpying from the bay and from the rough surf. When conditions settle expect a run of Redfish and possible Trout, and Spanish Macks if the water clears. Here is a report from Jp3 from 7/23 on the conditions:
Just had to check it out. Tried to get the Pics up yesterday but photobucket was running really slowly and couldn't get them up loaded.
7/8 A report from MikelCCTX from 7/07 - We fished the rocks with live shrimp from 12:00 to 1:30, and caught 3 trout and a sheepshead. Two of the trout were 20", and the third one was marginal at best, so he lived to swim another day. We saw Titeline leaving right when we got there, I only recognize him from his pictures, and felt like Garth and Wayne in Wayne's World "I"m not worthy, I'm not worthy!!" Other than that, we saw a guy catch a snook with a white Rattletrap, and another guy caught two trout next to us. Another guy was also fishing with a Rattletrap. I think someone around here started a Rattletrap craze.
Until next time,
Mike6/27 Titeline's Latest Haul 6/25 - OK boy's one more time, get a pint of shrimp at Clem's and take your lemon rig to the north Packery and catch some trout... Wait just a minute, that didn't work today. So plan "B"... Try free-line live shrimp in the channel, now that worked. Caught 6 up to 22" on a very hard morning of fishing...(retained 3) Water was clear, fairly lite winds, but very few fish coming through the channel. Here some pic's for everyone stuck a work...Also you need a new red hat to catch fish...
6/20 Packery Jetty Fishing - Fishing is hot with lots of nice trout being caught on Croaker and rattletraps. Skipper Krueger landed this 4lb Flounder while on vacation at the South Packery Jetty 6/19. Photos courtesy of Morris Studios Flour Bluff :)
6/15 - Snookered 6/13 - Fishing next to Packery Jetty , With Capt. Nate and Topdog15, Snookered landed this big Jack Crevalle.
6/13 Friday the 13th Packery Report from Titeline - Finally got a morning to myself away from all the doctors so I loaded my jetty wagon and made my way to the North Packery looking for Specks. Stopped on the way at the Bait Bucket for a pint of shrimp and got in the water at 7:45am. The birds were working large balls of bait in the channel but my lemon rig just wasn't working. So I went to Plan "B" Free-lining... Very hard to cast into a 20mph wind so I added a small weighted float and that was the ticket 8 trout between 17"-22". Also one very large Whiting made the cooler. Who say's Friday the 13th is un-lucky.
5/31 TITELINE is back with another limit! - Well I'm back in action a little ahead of schedule. Went to the North Jetty at daylite with a pint of live shrimp from the Bait Bucket in the Bluff. Walked all the way out but the waves were busting over the end so I had to move back to one of my favorite rocks in the channel. Starting catching trout on the first cast with a lemon rig. Lot's of weed coming in on the current but managed to catch a limit before 9am. Also caught three small Red's right next to the rocks. Lot's of trout coming in from the gulf going to the bay's. A big thank's to my surgeon, Dr. Steel for going easy on me. If you have to have someone cut on you he's the guy.
Meanwhile Chuck 3000 and Cheeseburger made it offshore: Chuck reported - How'd everyone else do? I know plenty of folks made it offshore sunday. We caught some cobia, grouper, and cusk eel and got some good karma by giving some guys a jump 12 miles offshore in a jon boat. We saw some other folks work hard for cobia but the good bite was early. Four before 9:00, tossed a ~38 incher back and probably could have caught a lot more. I almost freegaffed one.
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CHUCKCheeseburger had a fun day too! - Only managed two nice pics from all the action on Sunday.
My son Max and his almost state record Atlantic spadefish. I looked it up. He was about 4 ounces short.
My 35" redfish that I released so it could make more redfish. Having an extra tag onboard made it hard to release but I bit my lip and am counting on the fish karma to kick in :)5/1 Packery - Winds have things roughed up but earlier this week TITELINE filed a report from 4/29 After a long illness I finally made it back to the Jetty for some good ole trout fishin'. Conditions were perfect, water was clear and bait was everywhere. On the way I stopped at Clem's for a pint of live shrimp. There were on the small side but it didn't seem to matter much to the trout because they gobbled them up as soon as they hit the water. The first two fish I landed free-lining were 22" and 23" long. After that I changed to my lemon rig and caught 4 more plus a 30" Red on the surf side. Walked off the jetty at 11:30am with a cooler full of trout. Great day on the water....
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4/24 Packery - Spanish Mackerel, Skipjacks, Jack Crevalle, a few trout and Slot Reds recently. Here is a report from 4/23 from SurfinSapo who says : e went after we got off work this morning. I only caught perch. This man caught a jack and my other buddy snapped his line on a jack or bull red we think.
_________________4/6 Offshore Report from Chuck - We went overnight sat-sunday to Big Southern. Winds did not calm down saturday evening as predicted so we had a pretty rough ride out. Still we tied up before dark and caught as many as we wanted of crevalles and bigeye jacks to 30 pounds. We also had a king rig out that kept getting taken by a big shark. We hooked him at least six times and twice got him tired and real near the boat after 20 minute fights. However after he cut through 200 pound steel cable figured we didn't want him close to the boat. By 330 we still didn't have anything worth eating in the box (just two jacks for future chunking) but finally got into a mingo bite. (vermillion snapper) Bite was hot until about sunrise and the box was full by then. Largest was just under 5lb.
Sunday was a beautiful day so instead of heading straight back we checked out a rig and mustang island ship reef. Missed the wreck on the first anchor attempt and was too lazy to try again. We chunked and got a couple atlantic sharpnose and finished off the rest of the beer.
Anyway in the rough ride out we had some boat issues...lost the trim motor and got a sticky gear in the steering...I fixed the trim motor but can't get the steering wheel off.
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4/6 Packery Jetties - Lots of weed is rolling in making it tough on area beaches. When the water was green earlier in the week Jack Crevalle and lots of Spanish Mackerel were reported. Trout and a few flounder were caught inside the Packery area near the 361 bridge on Live Shrimp.
3/6 - Offshore Packery 3/1 from Chuck - Weather gave us a small window to head offshore yesterday. Left the dock at sunrise and after stopping at the short rigs for bait tied up 28 miles off packery at about 9:15. One fella brought dive gear and five minutes after going down he came up with a big fish. The rig is full of amberjack, he says.
We were so excited we didn't even look at the fish before throwing it in the box. It wasn't until the ride back that I realized it wasn't amberjack. We cut up both Crevalles for chunking on a future trip.
Zak (the diver) said that schools of red snapper followed him around everywhere he went underwater. Gulf snapper regulations don't make sense, the three of us not diving caught probably 60 snapper with most being legal size. I also pulled up this 18# monster and its 17# little brother.
Rest of the fish box was filled with 3 spanish macks, 2 bluefish, and 12 trigger. I was surprised to see typically nearshore fish like spanish, bluefish, and crevalle almost 30 miles out. Besides all the snapper, we tossed back an undersize king and a small AJ.
NOTE BE SURE TO DIVE WITH A BUDDY AND ID YOUR FISH
2/21 - Packery Jetty Report via Surfdragon 2/20 - My next stop was packery channel with the surf side being chopy and the inside channel being in just the oppisite the water was greenish and slightly murky but it looked good,Talked to gentle man fishing withwhat looked like live mud minnows he said it was slow with perch bitting.
1/17 - Offshore Packery 1/12 from Chuck3000 - "After successive 15 hour work days headed offshore saturday from Packery on an unplanned and un prepared for trip. Only been here for three months so not a lot of experience where the good spots are. At the close rigs and caught three decent trigger and many undersize red snapper and pigfish. Some fellows in a small whaler said there were some good rigs about 20 miles farther east, so off we went. All we had for bait was about 2 pounds of squid and four pigfish in the livewell. Long ride out there straight into the waves which were mostly 2-3 with the occasional 4-5. Cleaned up on triggerfish left them biting (no more squid) with 16 in the box biggest about 5 pounds. I would have killed for more pigfish or a livewell full of pinfish. The four pigfish resulted in one 5 lb dog snapper, two breakoffs, and cut fingers as I stupidly had my fingers resting on 50 pound braid when the drag started screaming off (lost the fish too). Maybe a dozen big red snapper, buddy caught one at least ten pounds which broke my heart to toss back. Ended the day with 16 trigger and the dog snapper, left them biting next time will prepare better. "
1/4- Packery Jetty via Rooster - I went down to the South Jetty on the afternoon of 12-31-07, the water looked good and it seemed like you could cast-net bait if you tried. I fished for about an hour and a half on both the channel and the surf side throwing gulp swimming mullet and Rat-L-Traps with no luck, just baitfish biting off the tail of my gulp. Seemed like the fishing was pretty slow for everyone else too, all I saw caught was one monster perch. I also saw the most turtles i've ever seen out there. Here are a few pics:
_________________12/24 - Packery Jetty- Gib reported good action for Sheepshead easily getting his limit earlier this week. The bait of choice is fresh caught ghost shrimp suspended below and eighth ounce egg sinker and fished above and around the rocks.
12/13 - Packery Jetty- The big bite out there this week consisted of good sized sand trout caught on shrimp and fishbites.
Meanwhile keep your eye on the ball on amenities promised on the South Jetty. The city apparently didn't learn after the big beach driving battle that the fishing commmunity wants the bathrooms and showers, parking etc promised in the vote to fund Packery Channel. Now it looks as though they continue to favor Mr.Schexnailder as he has requested the city only put temporary structures there so as not to impede future development on the adjacent property.
http://www.caller.com/news/2007/dec/09/packery/
12/7 - 12/2 Report from Surfdragon - I Went fishing last wednesday 11-28-07 to the packery. The weather was nice the water was semi flat and nice color green to it. Arriving at the south jetty a fellow by the name of alfred i hope i got the name right,Was at the end of his fishing trip with a nice sringer of trout.
Nice trout alfred,Trout were caught on the surf side on Piggy perch.
Birds were huddled up near the tip of jetty. Did not see any finger mullet
around but i had brought my own.Another fellow by the name of don was having agreat time with artificials in the green with black chartreuse and glitter trout killer.
Another fishermen was using a gold spoon and managed a red fish.
I used finger mullet with no takers,stuck around for a while longer with no bites.Heres a few more photos of josh and cant remember the other guys name catching a couple of reds on small crabs on the humble,When the fishing was real slow for every one else using dead and live shrimp.
Ill be on vacatoin this week and plan on fishing and hunting this week,Hope on having some reports soon.just some other photos to look at. See ya! ....
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11/15 - Packery Jetty - 11/14 Spoon'R reported Jack Crevalle to 20lbs early in the morning on his Fat Mamas. Fishing was slow right before the front with a few large croakers and some keeper trout. Finger Mullet were scarce.
11/8 - Packery Jetty - 11/7 Report from Lee Ochoa who writes: Thought I would stop by and pass on some news. The Bull Reds are still very active at Packery Channel. My wife and I took a quick day trip out there yesterday 11/7 and it didn't take long to hook up with some bulls. About 30 minutes into the day I had hooked on to my first bull to bad I lost the that one but on my next cast I hooked on again and this one did not get away. It measured in at 41inches and was tagged. We were using cut mullet. I have added a picture.
Great site.
Thank you,
Lee Ochoa from San Antonio, Tx
Rabbit posted this report 11/5 - Went out south of BHP this morning and the current was ripping north and lots of weed, I couldnt keep my lines out. Decided to hit NPJ, I hadnt fished the jetties yet. Went over there and netted some shade threw out two lines and a few minutes later I looke up and one of my poles was heading out over the railing, ran down and grabbed it about the time the line broke. Reeled it in and looked at the other pole and it was heading for the water, ran down and grabbed it just in time and the fight was on. Fought with it for about 5 minutes the darn thing was heading for cuba, then the hook came loose. Reeled it in and rebaited and cast out again, turn my back for a second and looked back and the pole was trying to go over the railing again, grabbed it real quick and the fight was on again. 10 minutes later I landed a 13.3 lb Jack Cravelle. That was the first jack that I have ever been able to land. Seems a school of Jacks came thru just tearing up the water bait was flying everywhere. That action lasted about 15 minutes and that was all. Fished untill 12:30 pm without another bite so I decided to call it quits. I did net a bunch of mullet and large shad 6-8 inches in size, brought them home and put them in the freezer for later. Called yakman and he came over and got the Jack for his shark bait.
Sunrise on the beach
Picture of me and the Jack taken by yakman.
10/31 Packery Jetties - The water is rough at the end but there remains a good Bull Red bite on the ends. Slot and Bull Reds , Spanish Mackerel and a few Flounder in addition to some good sized Croaker and Mangrove Snapper.
10/23 Packery Bulls from 10/23 - Here's a nice report from Surfdragon: Went on a fishing trip after work at the packery channel,My brother and i ,
left around 830 pm.Being that there is no light i decided to just stop and buy some frozen mullet and my brother stoped and cast netted some finger mullet at lugunna shores,So we met at packery. Arriving at packery there were only a few people fishing but they had results laying on the concrete, A few bull reds that were tagged so at least some thing was bitting. Ran into the game warden working the jetty and he was in the process of giving some fines.Just doing his job,Just minnutes after setting up our rods my brother lands a nice bull red. Well no slot reds for us that night but we still had a good time fighting the bulls, At the end of two hours of fishing we caught a total of ten bulls and they were still going
strong when we left.Heres afew pics of the reds.Fish were released.
Well thers some of the photos of our trip the weather was nice and cool and the surf was nice and flat. The water had a greenesh color to it,Baits
used were fresh and frozen finger mullet and croaker.10/23 Packery - Lots of small redfish on the surf side and plenty of Gafftops being reported. Spanish Mackerel and Skipjacks have also been caught. Look for a good run of slot and oversized reds to come in addition to Jack Crevalle as the water dumps out of the bay bringing lots of finger mullet and other bait right to their dinner table!
10/04 South Packery - Slot Reds and a few Bulls reported lately on mullet. Tarpon have been hooked as well on the calmer days using live pony mullet but none brought up for photos. Spanish Mackerel and a few Bluefish caught. A few large trout have been caught on live whiting and finger mullet.
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