|
|
|||||||
| Home | Forum | Online Store | Information | LJ Webcam | Gallery | Register | FAQ | Community | Calendar | Today's Posts | Search |
 |
|
|
Thread Tools | Display Modes |
|
|
11-02-2009, 05:11 PM
|
#1 |
|
Senior Member
Join Date: Nov 2008
Location: San Diego
Posts: 370
|
Steve I plan to stay on this beautiful Earth for a long f'n time
 Jim love the old pic of the lighthouse, very cool. I take it you grew up in that area? Dean was telling us the lighthouse was built around 1850 |
|
|
|
11-02-2009, 05:30 PM
|
#2 |
|
Senior Member
Join Date: Jul 2007
Location: San Pedro
Posts: 999
|
Incredible Post Joe
|
|
|
|
|
11-02-2009, 06:49 PM
|
#3 | |
|
.......
Join Date: Jan 2009
Posts: 1,509
|
Quote:
Port Aransas is the closest really good Saltwater fishing to Ft Worth though I fished off jetties, wade fished, and fished in the surf all the way from Galveston to South Padre. As a kid I spent a lot of time in that area before I got into the four wheel drive, North Padre to Mansfield, surf, Jack, King, Bull Red and sharkfishing scene, or essentially moved on to larger fish. If I moved back to Texas I'd consider Corpus hard as a place to live, and then I'd fish down the beach off Padre. I'm not knocking the fishing you did by any means as I know it's a blast. That said: you were just down the road and a trip down the sand from some of the best surf and kayak fishing on the planet. If you want to see some big fish try south of there off the beach. Here's some recent Padre picks from extremecoast.com a website devoted to fishing that area. Not my pics just giving you an idea of what's down there.  Jack Carvelle at the mansfield jetties  Bull Red same location  Blacktip Mansfield Jetties  Tiger Shark North of the jetties North Padre Island  Cobia North Padre basically the same area  King Mackerel (similar to a Wahoo)  Kings, Jack, Spanish mackerel.  Tiger shark North Padre  King Mackerel on the popper  Jacks and Kings working bait  Jacks kings and sharks on bait  Jack Cervelle on bait You should check out the report that goes with those last few pics here: http://extremecoast.com/reports/report080609.php One last tiger...  Not for the faint of heart.... but I'm just saying if I was in that area that's where I would go fish...  Once again great report! I think between your post and those pics I just found I just convinced myself I need to make a rod trip down there! Jim Last edited by Fiskadoro; 11-02-2009 at 07:01 PM. |
|
|
|
|
|
11-02-2009, 06:57 PM
|
#4 | |
|
BRTF...bought & paid...
Join Date: Mar 2005
Posts: 1,247
|
Quote:
 Get one of those bad boys, and (hopefully) paddle his arse into the sand...
__________________
Adios Tman Gaffer for Clay the Fishcatcher 
|
|
|
|
|
|
11-03-2009, 01:44 AM
|
#5 |
|
Senior Member
Join Date: Mar 2005
Posts: 224
|
[QUOTE=Jim Day;46645]I grew up about 350 miles North of there in Ft Worth.
Incredible pics Jim. I'm from Gladewater myself....grew up flyfishing Toledo Bend....trot lineing the Mississipi for big yellow cats and drop netting in the swamps of the Atchafalaya River for blue crab all night long with my dad talking to the owls. |
|
|
|
|
11-03-2009, 05:34 AM
|
#6 |
|
Senior Member
Join Date: May 2005
Location: 2 inches above sea level
Posts: 503
|
Redfish are as tasty as they come. The only tough part is they have scales like armor. Evolving alongside bull sharks will do that, I guess.
__________________
"All I got was a rock" |
|
|
|
|
11-03-2009, 06:55 AM
|
#7 |
|
Senior Member
Join Date: Jun 2008
Location: Cardiff, Ca
Posts: 185
|
Sweet pix all around. Question, what the hell do you do with a huge Tiger Shark like that? Looks like they are keeping them, no?
|
|
|
|
|
11-03-2009, 07:41 AM
|
#8 |
|
Señor member
Join Date: Mar 2005
Location: San Diego, CA
Posts: 1,627
|
Thanks for the report, looks like a blast!
|
|
|
|
|
11-03-2009, 11:06 AM
|
#9 | |
|
.......
Join Date: Jan 2009
Posts: 1,509
|
Quote:
Jim |
|
|
|
|
|
11-03-2009, 03:34 PM
|
#10 | |
|
Senior Member
Join Date: Aug 2008
Location: Vista
Posts: 1,111
|
Quote:
Looks like a great place to fish..... |
|
|
|
|
|
11-03-2009, 05:40 PM
|
#11 |
|
Guest
Posts: n/a
|
Killer Thread and Nice Picts
|
|
|
|
11-04-2009, 08:37 AM
|
#12 |
|
Senior Member
Join Date: Mar 2007
Location: Seven minutes from the launch!
Posts: 987
|
Sounds like an adventure, Joe.
Ahhhh, the memories of mosquitos and wide open fishing. It's tough to say which there are more of, but I'll go out on a limb with the mosquitos
. I fished the saltgrass along the Texas coast nearly every week of my life as a child. The epic fishing for specks, reds and Flounder is something I think about often. My favorite topwater plug back in the day was a natural bone colored Jumping Minnow. To watch a single Redfish or an entire school of bull-reds charge that plug was heaven on earth. Big Speckled Trout love those 'walk the dog' type plugs too. Those were the days!The Texas fishery is a great example of how proper management (DFG with watch-dog anglers) can sustain an incredibly complex body of water...under heavy pressure. To people who think Southern California has heavy pressure, think again. Every person with a truck has a boat in Texas and there's a lot of trucks . Nearly every man, woman and child loves to fish...all the time. A funny way to look at it: take your average nine year old girl here compared to an average nine year old girl in Texas...the nine year old girl in Texas can pitch an 1/8 ounce leadhead under a dock with a Shimano Chonarch SF baitcast reel, accurately, without backlashing. She'll probably see that school of fish holding just off the Oyster bed and make a cast without telling you, too. Even with all those people fishing, the fishing is ridiculously good...if you know where to go, and when. Kinda like here. It's just a different attitude towards enjoying the outdoors over there. The mosquitos of the Texas Coast deserve another mention (try being allergic to them and fishing everyday  ), but the people you'll meet make up for it. The word genuine comes to mind in reference to the common folk. Make sure to brush up on your eye contact before planning a trip. It would be funny as hell to watch the MLPA/BRTF "try" to do what they're doing here to the people of Texas..can you say "get a rope"? I remember when the Redfish numbers were a little low due to a couple bad winters (the bays froze and killed a lot of fish). They built up a well recieved stocking program to achieve the numbers of fish they enjoy today. Someone could learn from this if they wanted to actually look at the science involved. Since the Southern California fishing is better than it's been in thirty years, let's just shut down fishing entirely  .
__________________
  
|
|
|
|
|
11-03-2009, 07:23 PM
|
#13 | |
|
Senior Member
Join Date: Jun 2008
Location: OC
Posts: 397
|
Quote:
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Hybrid Mode
