Thanks for all the help guys, i love this website. This is my first time over in the saltwater section and you guys are great. I dont care what those bass fisherman say about you. I plan on going down sometime next month if i get my Scout finished by then. If not do you guys know anywhere i can rent a Jeep or 4x4 of any sort? Ill be going down with my family and camping somewhere down them island.

There should be an enterprise in corpus that hass 4x4 jeeps, believe it or not, one year we were so desperate to get down there, we didn't have enough room in the trucks for everyone, we ended up renting an all wheel drive chrysler pacifica and took it loaded with two yaks on the roof all the way to the 33 mile marker, yes it got stuck quite a few times when down there, but we waited till low tide to make the drive down there, and cruised like 50mph on the hard pack, bottoming out hard the whole way. Bet we are the only ones dumb enough to attempt something so foolish. Worked out and we had a blast, the pacifica didn;t fare so well, was in pretty bad shape upon returning it to the rental agency.

Completely agree with RickeyBobby-great place to start learning. I am also new to saltwater and anxious to learn about surf fishing.(just moved to Houston) What is PINS?

PINS stands for Padre Island National Seashore, it is a long stretch of beach just south of corpus, great fishing.

Pffffttttt...what the heck do bass fishermen know anyhow? They fish for bait.

LOL! I'm retiring from the Pensacola area and will be moving near Texas City. I'd gladly take the largest bass fishman's fish and use it for bait to catch kings out here.

It was a joke guys...lol Thanks for the help.