Scott and I made a quick weekend trip down to the coast. We started the first morning off fishing packery channel. The fishing was slow, Scott caught a small jack and I caught a small trout. We then decided to run up to Port Aransas Jetties. There was a lot more activity there with bait being busted on the surface. We caught a couple smacs and got bite off several times. We took a break and went and ate lunch at Virginia's. Had some great seafood and hit the jetties for more fishing. Scott and I both had numerous hard hits that were shortly followed by slack line. We were getting bite off by kings. I hooked up for a few minutes to a nice fish that quickly took me to my backing, but it didn't take long for my 50lb fluorocarbon leader to get chewed through. We switched over to wire leaders but could not get a bite, the fish were just to line shy. It seemed the best set up for the jetties is a stout 9 or 10 weight with intermediate line. The fish really seemed to like white and blue or white and olive baitfish patterns.
Decent Smac
Mouth full of razor sharp teeth
Watch those fingers
Hooked up momentarily
The only tarpon we jumped
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