Report submitted by 'Oz'

PINS Surf Report Padre Island National Seashore, TX October 15-16th, 2005 Tweet

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Gabe, Seth, and I headed down the beach Friday afternoon to be greeted by clear skies and calming conditions. There was much debris on the beach and driving throughout the high-banks was tedious and extremely rough. Camps were already setup all in the lower 20's and we decided not to let the red tide scare us and head south. We get down to nice looking water with birs offshore about a 1/2 mile. Debri started getting so bad we actually turned back a few miles. The recent storms have sent an incredible amount of wood and garbage from the upper coast of Texas and Louisiana and is washing up heavy past Big Shell. We finally come to what we decide on being an appearingly productive location (notice the debris washed up on the beach).

We begin castnetting Mullet and sendthem out hoping for some bait.. of the Jack variety. We end up hooking into large Spanish Mackerel as the sun was going down.

The night was slow with a couple runs. I end up being cut off on a large bait by what we suspect tobe debri rolling in. The next morning Seth gets hooked up and the fight is on with a stubborn fish.

The culprit.. a Stingray ringing in close to 100# that was released.

Shortly after Gabe yaks out a bait and soon after Seth gets hooked up and lands a 4' Blacktip that was tagged and released.

During the multitude of runs, I am out playing with the smaller variety hooking and landing Mackerel, large Skipjack, and Redfish (such as this double landed).

Here the Reds model with the new Breakaway LDX rod.

By sunset Gabe and I have a couple large baits out a piece waiting for the night-bite.

Gabe strikes first with a fat 5' on the nose Blacktip that was tagged and released.

I eventually get a run on my Super-6 rigged with a large bait indended for a giant. The shark comes in relatively quick and ends up being a 6' Blacktip mean and hungry... another 10lb bait picked up by a pesty Blacktip. Gabe tagged the shark and she was released taking off in search of other monster baits to devour put out by anglers.

The rest of the nite Gabe and I had a large bait out. Around midnight with the moon directly overhead the Ozinator rigged with a large primo bait gets smoked. After a blazing run the reel never let up until the fish dropped the bait before getting a chance to hit him with a hookset. Oh well, I'll get him soon.

The next morning Gabe wakes us up displaying a very sexy Jack Crevalle he picked up during a frenzy having more than one hooked on at once. This guy was NOT released and will be deployed later in the week ;)

Shortly after we had to head out back to town. It was nice to fish again withGabe and Seth had a blast hooking into action. Overall it was another fun trip and glad fall has finally hit the beach. The bait and predators are in close and in our location, you would have never guessed that 2 weeks prior there was a massive fish kill from Red Tide.

Good luck and see you on the sand.
- Oz

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