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Originally Posted by JoeBeck
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
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I grew up about 350 miles North of there in Ft Worth.
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