Surfside Jetty Monster Drum Weekend

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REPORT

Surfside Jetty Monster Drum Weekend

12th and 13th December 2008

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Well it was an upside down week for me - this was meant to be our last sharking weekend of 2009 with a trip to Florida to meet SSC but with home and work commitments a sharking trip just turned out not to be possible. I kept my eye on the moon, tides and weather and after last weeks 12 drum trip...I knew that Surfside jetty should again produce and if not produce even better.

The trip was off to a great start before loading the truck as there was a lot of interest from TSF members and this included Deaver coming through to get in on the action and show his commitment and support to the upper coast faction of TSF..... his journey was to be rewarded and rewarded with an upper coast BANG !!!

On checking the tides the jetty action would have been slow throughout the morning and early afternoon so myself Deaver and Sportsman decide to hit Galveston side of SLP early Friday morning to possibly see if there was any bait fish and just get ourselves lumberred up for the jetty later in he day. We arrived out to what was an incrediblly low tide and conditions were gorgeous..beautiful sunshine and flat calm surf. Sportsman quickly got some crab and mullet out (hmm, I thought we were bait fishing)...I put out some fish bites but soon followed with crab on my my big rods.

With baits soaking Deaver got to demonstrating the distance casting he has been practicing .... mighty fine impressive casts in the regsion of 150 to 170 yards. Lets not talk about my birds nest...lets just say I had to go and buy Deaver a knew spool of 20 lb mono. As for the fishing, Shannon and myself made a very limp effort at working the drop off for flounder when out of the blue one of my surf rods bent in half. What a great satrt to the day - looking for bait and we hooked into what turned out to be my biggest BIG UGLY yet. The fish went 43 inches and weighed in the region of 40 - 45 lbs.

Sharkerstalkerkyle was soon on the phone and soon on the road. We enjoyed the rest of the beautiful morning and just after noon got back on the road and headed towards the jetty. After picking up essentials, we got out on the rocks somewhere around 2pm. Conditions were beautiful so we headed out to near the end. From here the report gets blurry....lets just put it this way...FISH, FISH and more FISH. Over the next few hours Sharkstalkerkyle arrived, Breiger, Robosharker, SharkinnAggie, Cheater, Elite13 and RedRyder.

I will let the photos do the talking. Saturday ended with 15 fish. 10 bull reds and 5 black drum. Highlights of the day was the huge big ugly I got but best was a double hookup for Breiger on 2 reds...always nice getting a photo with a bull red in each hand.

The bite died off pretty much as predicted and after a great day on the rocks we all wrapped it up and headed out aroound 10 pm.

Saturday 13th

When I arrived home with Deaver on Friday night, I checked tides and weather...with 20-25 mile per hour winds forecast the jetty was going to be a different place on Saturday...but the tides and moon phase still told me we would be rewarded if we go out again. I decided we could make a short trip in the most productive period and see how we could get on, so sometime after lunch myself and Deaver hit the road again. First stop was to get some some crabs and then get out to the rocks. We got held up in traffic so missed about 1 hours of the bite that I would have liked to see..but we did manage it out there for around 3pm. The conditions were pretty crazy - end of the jetty was unfishable so we stayed back a few hundred yards where wave action was a little less. The wind and moon phase had pushed the water all the way up the rocks... this was going to be some really cool jetty fishing.

Did not take long to get into some steady action. We fished for 4 hours and put the total fish tally for the weekend to 21. Between myself and Deaver we got 5 big uglies and 1 bull red. The bull red was a nice sized 42 inch. I pulled up another hoss of a black drum that went 43 inches and Deaver pulled one in at 38" that was a very big fish.

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Hurricane Ike threw a spanner in the works for winter fishing on the upper Texas coast...but as I have said before STAY AT HOME = NO FISH. Having landed 33 drum in 2 weekends....I think it is easy to say THE BITE IS ON AT SURFSIDE JETTY.

Thanks for everybody coming out. The trips can be hard out there and the jettys can eat tackle. Be sure to hit me up with any questions I can answer. There is lots of information in this report to help guide you to figure out how to spend your time on the jetty. I dont want to spell it right out there...getting out there is best way to learn and is more valuable than just being told. I will be happy to take anybody from TSF out to the jetty and try and get you into the drum.

Oh, by the way - the photos are nothing compared to the HD video coverage Deaver took of the entire weekend. This will come soon.

TEAM BULLFISHIN OUT !!!