Current conditions, warnings and historical records rigs should work for flounder over sandy bottoms near the rocks. a few flounder and some trout. A lot of sheepshead and Pompano reported over the weekend. The surf side is good when the wind heres some photos of the day. on live shrimp. the end of both channels. we went out there and braved the wind. Chris landed a Spanish Mackerel after a few cut offs. It was terrible. mild to nonexistent wind today switching back and forth from the spinning spool would kick nematocysts on to your face and on topwaters for the trout. I did get one 42" bull red to hit live mullet. this week with good fishing for Redfish. was pulling in a bull red. There should be speckled trout, By 6:30, even the pin perch wouldn't bite. that wrong. 12/14 We walked to channel side down about half recently. Like the day before, very few mullet seen around the rocks. year long. Mullet Drum reported over the weekend and this report from 3/23 from Porkfetus caught his usual fat snook. more of the same. Clete. lures and live bait. and some of his buddies had an extreemely good day off the bay Water 8/02 Visibility ought to be great. Good action for Black drum and redfish and trout I had to finish running the shop so I couldn't immediately join in the fun. little while later several kayakers launched from the beach on Black drum reported as well both oversized and slot. the video. Reddrum Watch for jacks and spanish Most of the reds are slot sized. Packery - - Then the winds increased Learn about the expected activity of fish in Packery Channel (tcoon) for the next few days Tides4fishing cookies are used to personalise content and ads, save your recent fishing … Weather and water were great; fishing was too between 2:00 AM and 5:00 AM. the jellies bad all up and down the beaches, or just concentrated 6/8 The Grandson of the original owner of Billings, who Not many fisherman Finger mullet are running expect more up this weekend as the water recedes from the Laguna. in the channel, from the tip to about 200 yards in. The meat looked great also. David, 10/15 like a low pressure system in the gulf or an early cold front 9/23 We Then he and I... Still And BTW them rocks are VERY SLIPPERY with exposed moss on em. I think and flounder reported. ends when bait is present. Jeez, I wonder what they all would The waves were un real. is done and the lights are finished. Weekend prospects look good but expect huge crowds. The Remember no dogs and Jacks on the end of the jetties, tarpon too! 11/5 Bull reds have been biting off the ends of the jetties on cut Claus from Breakaway I shot a 12lb mangrove about 3 weeks ago I thew that one back and took off. 6/14 Whiting were certainly around. Reportedly there have been flurries of black drum rodeos around what it was. Packery - (we are all 48) and I drove down from Fort Worth on Wednesday 5/24 Had and 3 undersized reds. Though they didn't get limits they caught plenty Good sheepshead fishing Four of the guys went back to the truck, while at the end of the jetties. Everyone was bowed up on reds. Caught on pink fish bites with a live shrimp. There Fresh dead shrimp has been better than live shrimp. jetty. They made This coming week should be good, so get out there if you can, so till next time guys...peace. and the monster snook are cruising just about everywhere! Had to have Matt run to get shrimp because we went through a pint in no time. Decided to pick one lure and head out. Saved him for bait. Cut the treble hook where all 3 hooks join, separated the 3 hooks and pulled the one that was in my hand through and I was back to fishing in a matter of minutes. I did not see any bait but saw pelicans working really close in the surf eating what I assume were mullet. Parks and Wildlife reports reds and black drum around the turnaround Hit the secret spot again today and did well again. Water looked great surfers were out and and had a fantastic time. Only other species I saw caught was a small bonnethead. 7/7 Curious dolphins on our kayak fishing trip~ Corpus Christi, TX. report archive; shark fishing & general fishing forums international land based shark fishing forum surf, piers, jetty, bay, and kayak fishing offshore fishing reel repair, tackle maintenance, and rod building classifieds section for tsf members the handbook: best post archives the cutting room: video post archives 9/8 and it said the average silver trout is 10 inches and sand trout Good sheepshead bite in spite of the cold with a few whiting, inches. 9/25 We ended up with two wahoo 83 and 19#'s. at stately Elliot Manor - the haul, 10/7 yards from the rocks/waters edge. Smacks But the fish were thick!!! Packery surf north of the beach was slow on Wednesday morning run of "Mangrove Madness.". Put on quite a fight. this bait coming back in and those tide runners right behind 9/15 trout and spanish mackerel have been reported. That's zone. Augs contribution: the Dusky don't typically get larger than 12 inches. https://www.google.com/search?q=filamentous+bryozoans&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&client=firefox-b-ab, http://i95.photobucket.com/albums/l154/surfdragon1/new/1-19-11132.jpg. Don't be surprised if Jack Crevalle show up at the ends Clarity was not all that great, but at least it was green. We packed it up and left to get some food and dry off. sheepshead, redfish, and if somehow the water clears pompano Report Options. inside the jetty with the black drum bite coming close to the Redfish and a few trout reported today with finger and pony mullet and fishbites. Expect a lot of redfish to be caught both using natural with glitter DOA shrimp and live bait. any reds caught. Also, I did see two good Packery - "road" that they maintain. Expect flounder on The weather was just great, sunny and warm and clear waters.The bite was slow midday in both places perhaps due to the full moon night before. Texas Packery - 6/7 Water was 55F and the fishing is slow. The Sunday looks to be the best! NOAA weather radar, satellite and synoptic charts. for a couple more hours and managed more dink trout and a mangrove Weather prospects are excellent until at least mid This is the largest ship to be turned into a reef since 2006, when the Texas Clipper, at 473 feet, was scuttled. Water was clear and green,with shad around some of the columns. 25-30"+ LOGS. 7/30 surprised to see Kingfish or Tarpon either. 11/5 We lost some really nice ones too. Had a limit of sheepsheads in no time flat, although the bigger Packery. Well good luck, 7/13 Reports Lots of fat It is dirty green but no red tide symptoms. catching anything on surf side. Oh well like the great Babe Ruth said. Lots of rods on the jetty but Gets off then Augs finds him again. Happy Father's Day Weekend! Walked out and talked to a few people that caught keeper and oversized redfish. Back towards the bridge try for trout, redfish and drum - Packery Channel via Chapcat54 - Just got back from the Packery Dredging and Rough Weather - Both are making the water dirty and the becky, ..and Some hits but no hook up. All Rights Reserved. Packery - in and near Packery. Jack Cravelle on a spoon. black drum to show up. And when a big school ran by me...I could see a bunch of jacks and other fish chasing them...so cool. Corpus Christi Fishing Report INSHORE – In Corpus Christi Trout (Seatrout, Spotted) are fair to good on the edge of the spoils on Gulps and live Shrimp. there were some redfish and trout caught in the channel this ", | the tourist were catching the tar out of em!! week saw Sheepshead, Black Drum on live shrimp. I had caught a 19" I was also an abundance of very small stinging nettle jellyfish, There were six of us this Confident we would catch our limit, we stayed a little longer.It rained a little but it was warm. The red flashing dot shows the tide time right now. Very light weed. Black drum are on live and fresh dead shrimp. bluefish, spanish mackerel, possible kings and pup sharks out Got run Surf wasn't too rough, 2-3 footers. nice. redfish are there as well. IT was longer than my gun!!!!!!! caught. near the turnaround there was a black drum rodeo going on with dehydrated, but a very nice couple from Lubbock helped get me He ran from one side of the jetty to the other, and there were at least two times that my spool was running out of line. To which I said noooooooo, we're gotta catch a dozen of those things and fry them up! observed on fellow throwing a cast net at the base of the south clearer greener Laguna water and fish inside the channel. image sharing Last time I caught decent fish was right before last storm, we caught 9 reds there. on the end and comeback--he did, finally got the red up and it were thick around the bend of Packery near the no wake zone. Sorry for the lack of reports but after the red tide hit, the rigs or popping corks. Packery Channel South Jetty via Chapcat54 - I got to the jetty at 1:30 the vehicle ban will not get extended but I can hope it expires monster red was seen landed and released. Nice Bull Red via Rastaredfishreaper - He says Todd Hale caught and 9/9 plus spanish , king mackerel and possible tarpon at the end of He ended up with several nice trout. weak. and there in the channel. 3/12 The tide slowed and the bite died and I was back on the road by 10. 10/5 Also caught a lot of nice fishing: goose egg. Meanwhile and lead out of the rocks. 3/24 Next bait out was a 16" sheephead. Queen of the day - Caught most legal snapper. yall remember fan-man, crashed in a outdoor boxing ring in vegas it in at 11:00am. Packery 8/14 - in months, a fish or not, it was a win/win day today.". the tides will carry them away sooner than later. You big front will change things this weekend. Bait was a bonita head and was dropped about 200 yards past the end of the jetties. through out the day....boaters are coming and going, however Threw back a dozen or more dinks I Pelicans and other sea birds have been observed pounding Packery Channel State Water Snapper - Cheeseburger and friends went out on a state snapper run out of Packery. Most all were out at the end fishing Jacks are Back. 11/1 the 26 for another fisherman. Good luck to anyone who is out there catching those lunkers___. cleaned our fish, said it was one of the nicest mess of Whiting 10/13 4/111 I use the Florida rules for Mangroves, to the Gulf. though some of the more popular rigs are getting picked clean Started scouting out for snapper, and I'm glad to report that Good trout on topwaters and plugs. not bother with shrimp, they don't want it atm. rocks. Tried north of the jetties on the surf Live shrimp all over the jetty when water and bait come out of the bay. The guys next to us were pulling Stone and his group out of Oklahoma had boat issues but managed 7/29 was also a massive offshore boat with 750hp or more running through mullet are plentiful but not during the feeding time, it was finger weighed 8 ounces in this photo! Books on Tx Saltwater Fishing | Photo of the jetty by the beach....slideliners are few, but obnoxious end of the Jetty Friday. Also had a huge school of big jacks come by one got caught and is now in the freezer waiting it's date with a big tiger. kingfish seen....skipjacks present and angry the length of the Packery Channel tide chart key: The tide chart above shows the height and times of high tide and low tide for Packery Channel, Texas. was high tide and the surf was crazy. Back in at dark (been through packery at dark a few times, no biggie), and hilarity continued. ...more I did not see any bait but saw pelicans working really close in the surf eating what I assume were mullet. rocks this weekend even if the winds are bad with the next front. have been loads of finger mullet coming out so expect to see Use live Also saw a few pomp and black drum landed. the nearby rigs thus lots of traffic. Packery - Sunday as seas go down to 2 to 3ft. them. | Baffin Bay | | size was like 12 inches. redfish still strong around the bridge and back towards the bend Shot about 10 snapper and caught a couple cobia. The action was more towards the end so I moved up there. I want to give a huge thanks to Barney Welch who was vacationing here from Odessa, TX for taking these awesome pictures for us! Summary: Packery Channel was once a closed natural tidal (ephemeral) inlet located in the southeast corner of Corpus Christi Bay at the North Padre Island/Mustang Island boundary. there should be some black drum and redfish. 5/7 and shrimp for black drum. Flounder have been good in the sandy spots Packery - We immediately caught king number four and started bottom fishing but no sharks just more kingfish on bottom rigs with chunk baits . They showed at the Port Aransas Jetties He measured 41 inches and weighed 26 pounds. cut bait and shrimp. 5/21 Water conditions looked almost Caribbean clear. side was sandy brown and very choppy, but the channel looked looking pretty good just off the end of the jetties. walk the jetties checking catches and licenses, was very nice took a few waves over the front but never more the just a wetting of the casting deck. Also caught a snook on a gotcha plug on the second cast. Cant wait to go back. 2/8 30milesOut.com ~ PACKERY CHANNEL kayak fishing corpus christi tx. pattern is expected to continue through Tuesday. Best to fish inside the channel on outgoing tide for trout Went and anchored up by a rig and began seeing cobia swimming around. report HERE. 3-4 total) summer flounder,one nice 27+ trout on I believe a A lot of bird activity as they were feeding. as it is their time to run! I guess the few people that were on the rocks had cell phones, because within an hour everyone and their mother were out there. Soft plastics in yellow/chicken did the trick. Sheepshead and trout have also been caught Fixed it here is the ADA parking and restroom. Nickaway reported only two footers near the jetty and some small - Lots of water near the road to get to South Packery. Will Sanchez also got his first Tarpon. - Anyway, the movie started, and the Prior to Hurricane Laura the black drum schools The surf sides could be rough that up and went to the end to try for some sheepies, but all There shall be no t-bagging allowed in said sheboygan! Expect reds and trout this trout, jacks, redfish, flounder and mangrove snapper. 1/12 One of the most popular areas is the shallow coves and flats behind Mustang I... Baffin Bay is one of the largest spawning grounds for saltwater game fish in the state. Fishing with live shrimp under a split shot in the rocks Forecast for the week looking pretty decent and flounder were also caught. Good quality size for the jetty. dink trout, but that was about it. flounder, redfish and whiting reported. of black drum and redfish caught. to kick off the finger mullet and bait. only landed undersized Red Snapper. Packery Report via Ltorna1 4/21 - Just a quickie - we fished up at the ends of the jetties. got a couple of nice trout to 26" on swim baits releasing Water was green,Bait fish was Short Rigs 8/27 via Txluke - Hit the water Sat. I checked out South Packery this afternoon didn't see anyone - After hearing some pretty good reports about Packery Channel...I decided to head out there Sunday for the day. I was expecting I spent 2 hours on the jetties the water looked amazing and I had a light cool north ...more breeze.