Fished for an hour or so with shrimp/pink fishbites and got whiting on every cast. Pomp’s were nowhere to be found today.

Pomps in full force on pins today.

Fished pins for a couple hours yesterday in search of pompano. The conditions were perfect, but the pomps never showed up. Managed a bunch of whiting and one big ugly. Didn’t see any bait in the water or any signs of redtide.

Made it down the beach this morning to find miles and miles of man-o-wars. I have never seen the beach so thick with them, and it stayed that way until the 15 where I decided to turn around. The rangers station said that the red tide kicked in hard at the 17 with a lot of dead fish. No red tide was existent for the first 15 miles and the water clarity got worse the further south you’d go. Didn’t see any bait in the water and had no takers on shrimp/fishbites & mullet in the hour we did fish.

Arrived at the gate with news that the beach was shut down a mile down due to a RV on fire.

Made the trip south of bob hall to the beginning of PINS Saturday. The water had a red film and aerosol effect was BAD. Reports i’ve heard said the smell radiated over the whole island over the weekend. There was fresh weed on the beach, but I didn’t stick around and fish to see how bad it was in the water.

Went out Friday for a quick trip. Mullet were plentiful in the first gut and blues were plentiful everywhere else. Didn’t catch anything else other than blues the whole trip. Boxed four and released the rest to terrorize someone else.

Hit the beach at sunup and cruised a couple miles down. First throw of the net yielded all the mullet I would need for the day. Fished until 11am and ended up with a handfull of bluefish, a red, a couple smacks, and 2 breakoffs. Driving was smooth, no signs of redtide, and some grass was in the water, but it wasn’t too big of a hassle.

Made the run down pins this morning around 9am to take a look around and maybe get a line wet. No new signs of red tide apparent on the way down and very little aerosol effect. Picked up a nice red on my first cast on live finger mullet, then not much the hour after except for a few large whiting. Not wanting to keep fighting a losing battle against the weed, I packed up around 11 and headed home.

Well as most of you know by now, the red tide has taken effect for the length of PINS so reports will be slim until it clears. I did however make a run out to Lake Corpus Christi for a little crappie action. The lake was very low, but I found some on deep structure and ran into schooling whites under the birds that was entertaining for a bit. Minnows were the bait of choice today.