FEEDING FRENZY at PACKERY CHANNEL Jetties, Corpus Christi, TEXAS - Redfish limits and BIG KINGFISH!! 

Yeah it can be frustrating sometimes. I’ve had trips there where you can’t cast/fish because so many people come over top on you. Fishing etiquette could be improved down here some but have to make the best with what you got!

Fishing is only getting better, first chance you get with some low winds, make it happen!

Hell yeah man, I just got back from packery! Had some small sharks blow up the slide line and caught a few good trout, bait everywhere! Subscribed, can’t wait to see your video with those big trout!

Also going to add your channel in my description!

@@happyface730 winds will be laid down in the mornings so jetty fishing may be pretty good. I’d get some live bait and try working the channel, lots of trout being caught lately. Taking a big rod and if the water is a clear green/blue throw some big baits/artificial s for kings off the surf side of the jetty!

@@happyface730 yes sir! The water had been pretty nice. I've gone the last few days and have been landing redfish and trouts. And a few mangrove snappers in the mix

Anytime man, nice to meet you and see you out soon brother!

@@KardiacOutdoors yes man im sure il see you forsure ifnot we can link for a video sometime

Yes it’s a great place to fish! I definitely got lucky this day!

That was a long day for y’all! 🎣

@@KardiacOutdoors sure was brother. Long epic day I won't ever forget.

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Heck yeah man, I may be heading there in the morning to try slide lining for kings! Hopefully we have some good weather this weekend and the fish are hungry! Good luck!

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Not many people enjoy eating them, I love to cut it into small medallions and fry it up!

I’m not this lucky all the time, trust me! Packery is super hot right now!

Yes it is, made many memories on the rocks!

Haha bites always better when you’re at home! Thank you!

@@happyface730 windy yes, place like packery you could still catch good fish inside the channel where it’s protected! Once the winds calm down later this month into September, packery will only get better with the mullet run. Take a cast net and fill your bait bucket with finger mullets 3-4” range, everything will be eating them!

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Yeah man I appreciate it! Hope your doing well also!

Yes there is! See some crazy stuff when it calms down and clears up!

Yes it was!

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@@KardiacOutdoors Very good work on the video. Keep it up!

Thank you!

That’s what I hear! Sucks the state that bob hall is in now. Plan is to try and do some slide-lining for kingfish at packery when I get the chance. Got some neat footage of some little sharks blowing up my bait so next video is probably going to be a tackle and gear breakdown for slide-lining!

Thanks man!

I go there when I go fishing I like Clem's marina for some night fishing and then head out in the morning to the packery channel for some nice red's , trout, Spanish mackerel

Haha, depends on the clips! The little brass ones that clip behind a flap I refuse to use, these heavy duty swordfish clips don’t break/open! During the summer I’m out there all the time!

@@KardiacOutdoors big bet! probably in spring Break I’ll be out there it’s a clip I’m not using. Everyone has there own fishing style

@@GPIalapesca be right in time for some jack crevalle and sheepshead! Agreed, I’m too lazy to tie knots every time I switch baits haha

@@KardiacOutdoors Ik over here at SPI is hard to catching them been using live shrimp and nothing.. I next I want to try using sand fleas or fiddler crabs.

Roy’s Bait and Tackle!

Packery has turned out to be a great place to fish, I absolutely love it because the snook love it! Only thing I did to my reel was get rid of the wire bail and put a manual pick-up conversion. Basically the first part on a spinning reel that tends to fail is the bail (which mine did). The manual conversion kit just gets rid of the bail so it looks like a van stahl or similar bail-less spinning rods that are popular up in the northeast for surf fishing for stripped bass and bluefish! Making it bail-less also makes it less prone to failure when I’m running along the rocks!

Sometimes as early as April but usually May!

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This was on June 30th, forecast this weekend looks really really good… for sure going to be sneaking out the house to get some fishing in!

Yeah man it was definitely a great day to be out there! Hopefully winds lay down some and the clean water is in this weekend. Bring a big rod just in case the kings are around and good luck!

@@KardiacOutdoors what lb test mono or wire do u recommend?

@@csme30 so I typically don’t use wire when throwing artificial for kings but that doesn’t mean you shouldn’t. When I’m not using wire it’s usually 80lb fluoro or 125lb mono leader tied to a quick connect swivel. I’m not sure what lb wire I used in the video because I was given some by another group of fisherman but it was single strand and strong enough to tie a haywire with!

@@KardiacOutdoors thanks. Awesome video

@@csme30 thank you!

This was late afternoon but the bite died about 30mins before the sun set. There are plenty of apps that have a fishing forecast but I honestly don't use them. I just fish when I can and have plenty of great trips at packery in the middle of the day. Packery is REALLY good on an outgoing tide in my experience. I fish mainly around the tides but also this afternoon there was a major pressure drop due to storms in the gulf which can make fish feed! Also try simplifying your approach at packery, rarely do I use anything other than a smaller size hook and split-shot 12-18" above it. It sucks loosing tackle but if you aren't fishing in the rocks and hanging up every now and then, in my opinion, you aren't fishing effectively. Hope you catch some fish next time you are there!

@@KardiacOutdoors thanks for the advice

@@KardiacOutdoors bro caught two reds 1 being almost slot today using hooks smaller than a quarter with split shot like you suggested as well as croaker and my son was loving it thank you 👑

@@randomuser1596 glad to hear man! It may not work all the time but I think it’s easily the best method to give you the most natural presentation to get hits!

Absolutely love them, I have two 5000 size and one 6000!

@@KardiacOutdoors what model is the bail-less tsunami spinning reel?

@@davidschmidt8391 it is a tsunami 5000. I actually broke the bail at the jetty, and bought a manual pick-up conversion kit for it. The manual pick-up kit makes it bail-less and works on tsunami shields size 5000-8000! You can buy the manual pick up kit at J&H tackle and put it on your existing shields!

It’s a tsunami shield 5000 with 40lb braid, rod is a 8’ MHX musky rod that I built to be a jetty fishing rod!

Thank you!

I know you can camp at Bird Island and there is a KOA in Flour Bluff close to where I live. I’m not familiar with many other spots!

Thank you! Rod is a 8’ MHX musky blank that I built as a jetty rod. Rod is rated for 3/4-3oz lures, 15-30lb line class!

Yes, they would not touch anything other than live bait!

This was a larger size treble hook because it’s all I had! Usually when offshore I’ll run a treble hook up front and a stinger j hook in the back. Don’t have to be huge, same trebles I may use inshore!

I’ve seen them there as late as the end of October! September is one of my favorite months to fish packery with the mullet migration, great time to catch big snook!

@@KardiacOutdoors thats awesome! We always fish packery and the port a jetties in the summer but this year we're going later to try and beat the heat lol.

@@jzapata8 I don’t blame you, it’s been unreal! Hope y’all catch some fish and may see y’all out there!

@@KardiacOutdoors thanks man! I'll keep an eye out for you for sure! Keep up the killer videos

See the link: www.jandh.com/products/tsunami-shield-manual-pick-up-conversion-kit.html?amp=1 Takes some getting use to but I love it now!

There is a lot around right now, I believe it’s seasonal but you can find them thick at the jetties right now. This trip a guy would make one cast with a castnet and pretty much load everyone’s bucket up he caught so many!

Most the action this afternoon was from 5:30-7:30!

@@KardiacOutdoors thank bro. Tried fishing early morning Sunday but they ran out of live shrimp! I brought dead ones as back up and it wasn't a good day on port O'Connor. I live north Texas so it's hard to stay late to fish on a one day trip. Thanks.

Yep! There were a few doing that, I did on one or two but we filled a couple bait buckets with one cast net throw so we had some ready!

It was June 30th, was more of a perfect storm of conditions than anything. Kingfish are in tho and should stay around till some cold fronts roll in! Fishing will get better august-September once the mullet start rolling in!

Kingfish rod- 30lb braid main line and 80lb Fluoro leader to some wire White inshore rod- 15lb braid to 50lb fluoro leader

The white rod: 7’ , medium-heavy, CRB color blank with CRB medium duty spinning guides, rated 3/8-1oz Big rod: 8’, MHX Muskie blank, CRB heavy duty spinning guides, rated 3/4-3oz! Both the rods I built myself!

White rod is a 7’ with a 3000 size diawa reel (cheap packaged reel). Black rod with red grip is a 8’ with a 5000 tsunami shield with 30lb braid!

June 28th!

It was the third or fourth day of low winds, water clarity was great, had reports of a lot of fish being caught at the beach, then to top it all off, pressured dropped from storms in the gulf. From my experience, kingfish are only on the rocks with good water clarity too. If it’s too murky I will just turn around.

It is a Tsunami Shield 5000 with 30lb braid! It has a manual pick-up conversion that makes it bail-less, similar to a van stahl. They sell the conversion kits for around $15 online at J&H Tackle and I recently put it on both my 5000s! For the money, shields are well above the fold in my opinion, that’s why I have three of them for jetty fishing!

what rod is that with ❌ flock

@@chriscothren2030 it’s a custom rod I built! It’s an 8’ MHX musky blank rate 3/4-3oz! I had EVA grip but cut it off to make the rod lighter and put the red heat shrink on

I tried for about 10 minutes but the kings wanted absolutely nothing to do with it! They were so keyed on the live bait everyone was throwing it!

I’ve been there PLENTY of times and been skunked and sunburned. You really never know but you have one trip like this and will remember why you do it!

I started buying more mono shortly after this video, for sure easier on the pockets!

@@KardiacOutdoors Good to hear. i noticed the floro got weaker after day of fishing and would break on the bigger ones. Thsnk God I only bought one spool, and put back on Berkley Big Game, the fish don't seem to see that either, although I can't get one to confirm it. Bass may have a big mouth but they don't say much.