Bluewave – Fishing Offshore and Near-Shore, Port Aransas Texas

The fishing out of Port Aransas is picking up—“Really” picking up.  For most of this Spring, the Offshore was slow.  That is my opinion. 

We have gone Offshore multiple times this year and the fishing was slow at best.

That can be expected since the season is early.  Sometimes the Rod-Bending starts early but this year, it was a very slow start. 

Today started off with some Fog and a cool----Smoking Hot -----Spanish bite.  I caught some really good Spanish Mackerel in great numbers out of the gate in the Near-shore water just out of the Jetty’s of Port Aransas but I was heading Offshore for the serious hook-ups.

Tanker Alley was waiting for me as I headed off to the Blue Water.  Tony Dehoyos was my Cameraman and we were shooting a show for Wide Open and we were looking for Rod Bending and some hot big fish action.  There were at least 12 Oil tankers anchored up in the 50-65 foot water.

I used both Ribbon Fish and 14 inch Diving Lures “Yo Zuri” to target the Hook Ups.    The “Yo Zuri” Lures were the magic ticket.  I trolled at 5 miles per hour and at first I cruised close to the Tankers looking for fish that were hunkering down under the vessels.  It proved to be a zero.  The open water at 65 feet was the magic ticket.

The rods went down in a big way and we had Kings on the 80 lb line and a great Jack Crevalle that tried to take my rod from me.

We were blessed and we had some serious fish onboard.

It was some great fishing.

We are heading next to fish with Captain David Tovar---Fly Fishing Aransas Pass Texas.

Don’t miss this one.

Thanks for your time today and………………..I’ll See You…. On the Water in the Wide Open !!

Sincerely,

Dave