Went down to Copano Bay fishing pier for an overnite fish, my son, my brother-in-law, my son-in-law, me.


The son-in-law landed this black tip shark, just under 3 ft long



We also kept 2 gafftop catfish in the 3 to 5 lb range


My brother-in-law also landed a small stingray and I hooked an alligator gar in the 4 ft long range, he busted the line when we tried to net him. (Trust me, by next year it will have been a 6 foot gar!)

Great fun, too many hardhead catfish & no trout but well worth the trip!

Welcome to TFF, looks like yall had fun out there besides the pesky hard heads. I needa go try that pier out soon.

Welcome to TFF, jebber. Looks like you guys had fun !

where is that pier?? looks nice, i wanna go too!!

google copano bay pier,, it took me awhile t find it too but it runs along the highway that crosses the water, whe you see it you'll know what im talkin about, just zoom in kinda close and you'll see it,, its like two long piers running alongside the highway one longer than the other and it looks like you can fish from eithe side i believe

My aunt and uncle used to live in Fulton Beach (couple of miles north of Rockport) and I fished there several times when I was a teenager.

Basically this pier is really an old bridge that was made into a lighted pier, and it runs parallel with SH 35, and is located near Aransas county airport.

How far out on the bridge did you guys go?I would love to try it again.What kind of bait?

ic it, looks nice!!

4th lite from the end - south side. We've caught fish (and been skunked) under almost every lite.

We had frozen squid, live/dead croaker, Gulp! shrimp & live/dead shrimp. The gar hit a dead shrimp on the bottom, (directly under the pier), catfish loved the squid, I think the stingray hit a dead shrimp and my SIL is pretty sure he had a croaker on that the shark hit.

The next lite back towards land caught a couple of nice black drum on frozen crab and the next lite up toward the end also caught a black tip (no idea what bait). We hope to make another trip in a couple of weeks.

Strangest catch we've ever got from there...

I'm headed down there July 26 for a few days,hope to catch some specs,flounder,and maybe some reds,my son is wanting to catch a shark too,is there anyplace close to copano pier to throw a cast net for bait?

Good times! thats a bullshark by the way. Black tips are more slinder with a sharp nose, maybe a sandbar but pretty sure its a bull they look alot alike.