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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

6/27 Deep Sea Headquarters - Snapper limits on both the 8 and 12 hr trips, Atlantic Sharpnose Shark, King Mackerel. Here is the photo from 6/21 12hr trip on the Kingfisher with CaptainTony Buzbee. Fish caught included Kingfish, Red Snapper, Atlantic Sharpnose Shark and Mahi Mahi.

6/22 Offshore Port A from Tunakilla - Waking up to a strong North wind, Cole and I met up with Wayne and his Dad aboard their 31' Fountain, Marlin Magic. By the time we got the boat in the water, the wind had died down to almost nothing and just like that we were screaming out past the jetties in search of a great rip that Wayne had hit the day before. They had gone 0 for 5 on bills the day before, and unfortunately we wouldn't do much better today. But other pelagic predators stepped up big, and within 5 minutes of trolling I landed a great wahoo to start off the slaughter.

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Wayne followed suit with a donkey of a Dorado, tipping the scales at 43+ pounds.

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After boxing that weedline bully, Wayne followed him up with a nice wahoo.

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Shortly thereafter, a cracked out blue smashed the center rigger ballyhoo but we were unable to hook up. Cole added a few more dorado to the box and the action slowed to a crawl for the hotter part of the day. We proceeded to grind along the weedline until we hit the holy grail of dolphin, both the mammal and fish variety.

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Once we topped off the box with more mouth-watering mahi, we spent the rest of the afternoon chasing down Mr. Blue Suit. Even after making two more appearances raising chaos in the spread, ole stickface never agreed to meet up at the boat.

Thanks again to Wayne and Mr. Brock for the great trip, definitely one I won't forget anytime soon!

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Sam

5/27 Port Aransas Inshore Report via K adiyaker - Got down to Port A Thursday (22nd) night and scoped out a couple piers, saw some trout action under lights off the channel, but decided to hit the sack and be ready for an early morning.
I got out to Brown and Root flats right at daylight and made my way in with the kadiyak. The goal was to scout redifsh as my buddy and I would be fishing the third coast tourney the following day. Right off the bat I come accross a good school of about 40-50 fish. If it was going to be this easy I wanted to try the new fly rod, but these fish were spooky and the school broke on my approach. So I paddled back around and drifted the area throwing pumpkin seed/chart paddletails and pulled out a nice 25."

These fish never schooled back up - possibly due to all the water back there. I left these and went searching for more schools.
Located a second on the northwest side between the islands. It was probably 20-25 strong, but didn't have the size. I pulled out a 22" red and kept moving. I paddled south and located some nice looking pockets in crystal clear water, but could not pull anything out of them. Saw lots of perch that liked to bite off my paddletail, but no reds.
The wind was steadily picking up (25mph) and gusting to 35mph. So I decided that I had gone far enough and the 1.2 mile paddle back, upwind was plenty so I called it a morning.
I went back to the island, fueled up on some dollar dogs at stripes and rigged up to hit Shamrock. I made it out there to find mercy water and more wind. With the wind to my back I headed out and caught a couple dink trout off the bat, but never hooked up on any fedfish. I was pretty beat from the morning, so I didn't make a 100% effort. I talked to a couple other guys and they had similar luck.
Saturday came and our game plan changed slightly - we decided to hold off on the BR flat reds and try the south jetty first. We've pulled a lot of good fish off of it and consistently in the past. Well that didn't happed Saturday morning, we were the first ones on the jetty a besides a couple skipjack we were skunked by 9:30 so we headed to BR flats - It was too late. With all the water on the flat it was accessible by nearly everyone and all the fished had been pushed off. I caught one rat red, my buddy saw a couple and hooked up with an estimated 25" that spit the hook.

After drowning our sorrows - I hit up the jetty solo that night in search of big trout and that red that eluded us in the morning. With a lemon rig and live shrimp on the surf side all I could catch were skipjack. So I decided to target reds in the channel and put nice peice of fresh menhaden on and worked it along the rocks, letting the current pull it out. On the 3rd cast I let it run a good ways and then BAM, big redfish on. I fought this guy for a good while before he finally approached the rocks. Being by myself I new it was not going to be easy to get this fish in. The tide was way out, so all the rocks were coated with that slick algae, then I had to step down one more level to the rocks that were covered with barnacles. So if you slip you on the algae, you fall onto a cheese grater - The waves were not too bad, so after a couple attemps and the fish getting into the rocks I finally got it netted. It taped out a 28" and was like a tree trunk, didn't have a scale so I couldn't weigh it. But I would venture to say this fish would have walked away with the tourament - if were only caught 12 hours earlier.
I put on another piece of menhaden and it got slammed while I was trying to work out a little back lash. It taped out at 26 3/4. The tide changed and the bite stopped. I went back to the surf side and managed one trout then called it a night.

The next morning I went to PINS - report to come.
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KadiyaKer

5/22 Deepsea Headquarters Reports - Fishing has really picked up again on the trips and the Kingfish have returned. In addition to the Kings they are doing well on Ling, Atlantic Sharpnose Shark and are catching a few Dolphin. Vermillion Snapper have been good on the 12 hr trips!

5/1 - Deepsea Headquarters Reports - When the boats have been able to get out they have been catching Atlantic Sharpnose Sharks, Vermillion Snapper, ad few Blacktips and Amberjack. The King Mackerel have disappeared temporarily.

On the Jetties fishing for Trout and Reds under Lemon rigs with live shrimp has produced good catches recenly.

4/24 Jetty Update from Rockhopper who says - "There have been a few kings. Smacks now and then. The trout bite has been on at the end of North and South. Lemon rig and shrimp has been most effective. Redfish are thick at the end of the North. The trout have been very healthy. 22-28". I have not been as effective w/ my plastics as my friends that Lemon rig but they are there."

4/19 - Offshore on a Party boat from R edskinner - I went deep sea fishing for my first time this past Saturday. Apparently the trip on the previous day experieced 7' swells, but on saturday the water was nice, calm, and clear. I think only one person on the boat provided chum. Lesson learned for that guy: don't drink all night before deep sea fishing!

I have to admit, bringing in vermilion snapper with what feels like a 2x4 isn't all that exciting. A few of the red snappers (that we had to throw back) gave a little more fight, but nothing compared to using light tackle. Alot of people kept grumbling about having to throw them back. For us, rules are rules, so we didn't complain. My buddy and I shared our catch and ended up with about 10 at the end of the day.

It was shoulder to shoulder with about 80 people all around the boat. So when someone caught an Atlantic Sharpnose Shark it turned into a cluster ____ (fill in the blank) as people kept refering to it. Minimum of 5 lines were tangled when 1 was brought in. Luckily I was the 1st one on the boat to bring on in. It was my highlight of the day and a good time to call it quits, avoid the cluster, and enjoy the day. Out of 80 people, only 9 sharks were brought in, so I felt special.

With some drum from a previous trip, we had a good little fish fry/grill that night. I'm sure glad someone recommended to buttermilk marinate the shark, cuz that stuff is STINKY.

4/16 - 4/12 - 4/13 Port A report via Kadiyaker - Went down to the island with my wife and a friend and his fiancé. Finally got there late Friday and checked out our night time hot spots. The wind was probably around 20 and very cool out of the north. We didn't see anything promising and decided to hit the sack and get up early.
The wind picked up even more over night and was now somewhere in the 30s and still cool. After surveying the situation, we thought if we could get around the south jetty we could find some protection. We were in a 24' Outback and had to turn around after venturing past the protection of the north jetty - it was crazy out there, white wash coming over the top of the north jetty. We considered a point in the channel then decided the Fina docks were a close sanctuary. The current was ripping in so we tied up to the structure and worked lemon rigs baited with live shrimp down the bulkhead. This plan paid off as we boxed two nice mangrove snapper, a sheep's head, two nice 20 & 21' trout and one red. Called it a day around 1 and headed in to rig up for the jetty.
We hit the south jetty around 7 with plenty light to make down to our spot. Right off the bat I hook up with a nice 24" trout, then Dusty hooks up with another nice trout. With barely any light left I hook up with an awesome 28" trout, didn't have a scale, but she was every bit of 7lbs.

(recognize my wife in the pic?)
Went on to catch two more. We left with 5 trout ranging from 22-28"
Sunday we woke to absolute calm. With the calm water we headed to the jetties. I was really hoping to see bait getting blown up, so that I could put my new TFO fly rod to use, but it was fairly dead. We jetted out to a shrimper with a ton of birds around it thinking there may be something going on and that didn't pan out. We then ran to Hog island and used the trolling motor to work sand pockets searching for reds - we finally hooked one before getting a call that a buddy was hammering the reds off the south jetty. So we headed back, but our buddy had limited out and had moved on for trout. There was already another boat that moved into his spot and they weren't catching anything. We anchored to give it a shot and Dusty's fiancé hooked up with a nice pomp. Saw a couple huge smacks busting mullet but nothing consistent. We called it day around 1 and headed to the hacienda...

Forgot to mention the green water was rolling down the channel. By the time we were leaving it was well past the crab man
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4/5 Offshore and the Jetty - Offshore fishing for Snapper is closed in Federal waters and will be until June. Charter boats have been reporting good action for snapper in Tx waters. Longer trips have been catching Atlantic Sharpnose sharks, King Mackerel, Vermillion Snapper and occasional Tuna and Wahoo.

The Jetties are still producing Sheepshead and some Spanish Mackerel and Jacks have been caught when the water was green.

3/27 Deep Sea Headquarters - When winds have allowed they have been doing very well on King Mackerel and Atlantic Sharpnose Sharks. Still good snapper fishing in state waters. Sheepshead fishing remains good around the jetties. Some flounder being caught as well.

3/7 Deep Sea Headquarters - reports two State Snapper trips did very well this week with numbers and size on Snappers. On the longer trips they are still catching lots of Kings on the Rocks and Atlantic Sharpnosed Shark, and a few Dorado.

 

 

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