Limp Lizard
Full Member
When I was a kid, approximately 1955-1965 every year my family would take a trip to Corpus Christi to fish. We also did some swimming in the ocean, but it was not all that much.
We would go on the group fishing boats (usually the early morning time) and after 3 hours and come back with a good catch per person (mainly me, my Dad and my granddad (Papa). The keepers were usually gafftops and sand trout. We also threw back a lot (ribbon fish, hardheads, mullets, crabs and too-small fish).
About 30 years ago I went to Corpus with my wife, my daughter and I. Corpus was nice, but the bay fishing was awful. Three hours and only a barely-large-enough Gafftop to keep the my 10 YO daughter caught. Just hardheads, crabs and other junk...and those hits were rare. The water in the Bay wasn't good to swim in (dirty, murky).
I haven't fished on the Texas Gulf Coast since then (shallow water, bottom fishing) since then.
How is the close-in (inside 10 miles) boat fishing going now/
We would go on the group fishing boats (usually the early morning time) and after 3 hours and come back with a good catch per person (mainly me, my Dad and my granddad (Papa). The keepers were usually gafftops and sand trout. We also threw back a lot (ribbon fish, hardheads, mullets, crabs and too-small fish).
About 30 years ago I went to Corpus with my wife, my daughter and I. Corpus was nice, but the bay fishing was awful. Three hours and only a barely-large-enough Gafftop to keep the my 10 YO daughter caught. Just hardheads, crabs and other junk...and those hits were rare. The water in the Bay wasn't good to swim in (dirty, murky).
I haven't fished on the Texas Gulf Coast since then (shallow water, bottom fishing) since then.
How is the close-in (inside 10 miles) boat fishing going now/