I went to Port Aransas this weekend with my wife and got a chance to wet my saltwater noodle. The first day was the best, not alot of pepole on the beach for the holiday yet.
My first saltwater fish on the fly is a trout, the irony. Caught this one a little later when I swiched to a intermediate sinking line and got a little deeper.

The second day I caught ALOT of 10"-12" drum. And then this

Any ideas on what kind of fish this is?
All an all the crowds got bad at noon and and the fish went away too. Going to do it again for sure its a blast.

Jack Fish , I believe

http://www.tribenwater.com/gallery/data/500/jack_crevalle.jpg

Baby jack, almost looks like a pompano..


SHARK BAIT!

where were you and what was most productive? im headed to Port A next weekend and any tips would be great

Man that is the smallest jack crevalle I have ever seen!!!

Wader-Noob and I stopped in Aransas Pass to fish some lights from a pier one night and saw a lady catch a Jack that was probably 3" or 4" long. Pretty cool especially that far back in the Bay! Those little jacks are all over the place right now. I fished the jetty the other day and caught a few of them on a truese and white clouser ripped in with a hand over hand retrieve, also caught what looked like a bar jack and they wouldn't hit it unless it was being ripped in.

Nice report. From the looks of the water line on your clothes you got out there pretty good. 2nd or 3rd bar?

From the looks of the surf, the 3rd bar would have been possible.

Is that your stripping basket under your arm?? Interesting - did you make it yourself??

The third bar from that area is a little deep for comfortable flyfishing.

Brian I was about a mile south of the peir on the beach in the surf, using Fat Heads and decivers with barbell eyes and a rattle belly tied in chartruce over white with lots of flash.

Meadowlark I was on the second bar, the third bar was another 50 yards out and would have took a little swim to get too. Foldcat yes I made the stripping basket out of a plastic storage box and the wading belt from my Simms so incase I need to use it with waders it would work with them also.

Not a bad idea - any port in a storm. Might have tried a plastic basket so the water would drain out.

I use a washtub with a gazillion holes drilled in it so the surf washes in and out of it... but after you get over your waist there is really no need to use a basket. I recently had a friend suggest using a cut down milk crate or something similar, which is brilliant; heavy enough to remain stable, and porous enough to let water escape.

Thats what I started thinking too after the third or fourth time I got crashed and it filled up, maybe a grocery basket - the handles would sufice?

Mmmm yes a grocery basket would do I think. Assuming you would walk out of your friendly local grocer with one in tow to experiment with

Wouldn't the wheels start to squeak after a while? What with all that salt water getting in them? Also, I shudder to think about trying to push a cart through the sand. Perhaps some sort of flotation on the sides so it wouldn't tend to sink so quickly.....

Yes, but once it's on the bottom, it will act as structure, which will attract baitfish, which will, in turn, attract your target species.

Get with the program, Robin.

I work at one so I think it could be pulled off, and Robin when have you ever pushed a grocery cart with wheels that dont squeek.

The squeaky wheels and erratic directions changes inherent in most grocery carts would lend themselves to a nice shark streamer...

I just hate the ones that pull to one side. Can you imagine trying to get back to the beach with a basketful of trout, redfish and such with those wheels pulling hard to the left? That and your fishing buddy wanting to stand on the front holding on to the edge and hollering that he wants ice cream? Oh, that was me in Walmart..... (my name is Robin and I hijack threads)

Hijack approved carry on. Now where is my ice cream?

in destin, that jack was big for my average

Did someone say ice cream?????

Rex

I think I'll swing by the local foofy coffee shop where "those" people go to get coffee, but this guy goes to get gelato. If'n you haven't had some you might wanna try it, it's like icecream on steriods.