Wednesday, March 25, 2015

Fishing the North Jetty, March 2015

Roy and I hadn’t yet fished the North Jetty this winter, and so we headed out on a foggy day to remedy the situation. First time Jetty fisherman, Bill and Ed, joined us and we all hoped to catch some fish for the table.
Our target for the day was the snowbirds favorite, sheephead, along with maybe a keeper red or two and perhaps a black drum to fill out the stringer. Driving from Fulton, we encountered some serious fog and we barely made the seven am Jetty Boat.
Carefully stepping from the boat to the North Jetty dock, it didn’t take Roy and Ed long to catch a couple of keeper sheephead. Bill and I also caught several fish but they were all undersized and safely released back into the channel.
Spreading out we kept searching for larger fish and I even worked my way out to the Tombstone Rock, but the fish remained small. Roy meanwhile had switched sides of the Jetty, hoping to pick up a red in the gulf.
I joined him but it was all to no avail as the fish simply weren’t there. At nine am another jetty boat arrived with more fisherman who took their place and also begin to catch small fish. It is always fun to catch any size fish but the visions of fresh fish for dinner faded as the sheephead remained small.

Later we learned that the fish caught at the Fina dock, one of the heaviest fished spots in the Aransas Channel had also only produced small fish. Still we all like cornbread so as returned back to the RV Park we talked of days past fishing the North Jetty. Maybe next year will bring larger fish, after all a fisherman is always an optimist! Clear skies.

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