Hello all I am a finatic cabber and make it to port aransas prety often. I cought some good stone crab over the last couple of trips with ring traps.
But I have hurd flounder giggers talk about seeing them all the time while gigging. I have a under water light set up and im going to look for some over thanxgiveing brake. Has any one been gigging in port aransas and come across stone crabs? and if so where on the island where ya? Thx.

Stone Crab I make an annual pilgrimage (pardon the pun)to Port A every thanksgiving.I allways do a little floundering wile I'm down there.Though maby a little duble teaming might be beneficial to both of us.I'll be tent camping at Fin and Feather Bait shop on the causway between Port A and Aransas Pass. If your intrestide, Lets get together and go crabing/floundering. I'll be down their from Wed. - Sun. Who knows maby fore eyes are better than two. Good luck !

Is that you ER? Nonetheless I'm goin' down to Port A Thanksgiving weekend too, gotta break a 40"+ redfish before Christmas. And maybe crab some.

-Phil

I see those things every where when I flounder in aransas pass. I never try to get them because them up dont want to loose a finger. I will be down there thanksgiving weekend also.

All right this is what im talking about.I wont be down till thursday but will ready got go chase crabs and flounder that night. Kid, phil (yes its me)and Bfish It would be grate to hook up Email me with your phone # and ill give ya a call to get set up. wolfgangwelding@yahoo.com. KId ive been eyeballing the fin and feather to crab at those flats should be grate for crab and flounder. And I have many spots on the island that will be good.

I usually go scapping by the fin and feather. There's a dirt road on the same side of 361, just a small ways down the road towards AP. You have to take a few branches in the road (don't know which ones off the top of my head). There's some good flats, there, and there's a big lagoon type thing surrounded by seagrass, so it's almost like a barrier. Lots of crabs and big mullet there. I've seen a few flounder and reds there too. It would be better to e-mail me. I think you already have my e-mail stonecrab.

-Phil

Ok ill do that.

hey all, i haven't made it down to port a
to do any fishin yet this year, but i usually
try to go a couple times. I'm generally more of
a freshwater fisherman. I've really been wanting
to go try and catch/gig some flouders though.
they are an excellent fish to eat. I don't have
a boat i can run down there, but i hear its not
all that neccessary. anyone have any pointers?
where to go what to look for? what to take along?
i don need anyones secret hole, just some ideas.
4-5 flounders would be plenty for me.

How's the wading around that fin & feather area? I've seen lots of folks out wading in the shallows along the 361 causeway, but don't want to go wading into muck. Is it reasonably hard sand bottom?

How does one get a stone crab if one sees one? Pick it up? Sounds a bit dangerous, given the size of their big claws.

How did yall do? Couldn't go floundering, women wanted to fish the beach.

If you have a boat, try the intersection of the shipchannel and Lydia Ann channel. There is quite a bit of current there and the stonecrabs hang out on the backside of St. Joe Island at the mentioned intersection. Set out traps before the water drops off or wade all around that corner of the intersection.

Stone crabs are all up and down the jetties in the rocks but hard to get. If you use stonecrab or bluecrab traps, be sure and weight them heavily or the current from the tides and from ships will carry them away.

Charlie