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Old 11-02-2009, 01:38 PM   #1
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Great report!!

You know I've fished right there where you were fishing in that tidal slew that winds back behind the lighthouse. We used to fish it wading before Kayaks, we'd take a skiff in there then walk around stalking the fish. You had to watch for rays, I had a buddy that got spined in there good.

Go back far enough and there's a cut that takes you due North to a huge wide open shallow flat. Sometimes that area is just loaded with Specs and Rat Reds. But I'm talking about back in the seventies though so it's been a while.

That lighthouse has been there forever. I think it was built in the early 1800's, I heard the confederates attacked it several times in the Civil war. It's amazing it's still the same after all these years. I almost didn't recognize the place with all the vegetation. That used to be just sand water and grass in there. Not as pretty, but very fishy.

Here's an old photo of it:


Your post definitely makes me homesick, I never thought about fishing that area with a yak, it must just be a blast.



Thanks for the report.

Jim

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Old 11-02-2009, 03:28 PM   #2
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Thanks for the excellent read and pics!
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Old 11-02-2009, 05:11 PM   #3
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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
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Old 11-02-2009, 05:30 PM   #4
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Incredible Post Joe
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Old 11-02-2009, 06:49 PM   #5
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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
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

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Old 11-02-2009, 06:57 PM   #6
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Tiger shark North Padre

Another Tiger shark North Padre...
Jim
OK, now I wanna go...

Get one of those bad boys, and (hopefully) paddle his arse into the sand...
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Old 11-03-2009, 01:44 AM   #7
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[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.
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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.
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Old 11-03-2009, 06:55 AM   #9
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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?
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Old 11-03-2009, 07:23 PM   #10
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Steve I plan to stay on this beautiful Earth for a long f'n time
LOL...Joe..glad you have such a great sense of humor! You guys rock and I am just jealous that I cannot get my sweetie out on a yak to fish with me
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