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PACK Meeting - 8/21/07 "Beyond the Breakers"

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SightCast

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3/14/2007 12:09 AM

Interesting reply from Jolly Roger to the post below; Jolly will be speaking at our PACK meeting in August. Talk about some serious kayak angling!! Good job...Mullet_Key in locating this speaker.

http://www.texaskayakfish...7144caf6a93aa#561234

brazman wrote:

Who yaks out to the offshore rigs? What special precautions do you take? Where do you puth the fish you catch to keep? I guess my mind is just thoroughly blown on this subject. It sounds terrifying/exhilarating!!!

What time of the year do you do it? Do you wait for perfectly calm seas, or can you do it in 3ft+ seas? TELL ME EVERYTHING! Ha!

Jolly Roger:

I make a few trips a year to offshore rigs in my kayak up and down the Texas coast. Lot of rig located from 2-3 miles all along the coast of Texas. Do not know why anyone would think they have to go 38 miles? Rigs everywhere much closer then that.

These types of trips are always better with a group. I consider them safer then fishing a bay or marsh. No boats to run me down or Vibro to infect and take a leg or my life. Calm days are always best, but days when the wind is light in the morning and picks up during the day also work good if you plan your trip right.

Many different types of fish to catch. Most think of snapper first but there are hundreds of different species at rigs. Just depends on what you are after.

The High Island field runs within 1.5 miles of the beach and has a rig located off crystal beach about 1.75 miles from the sand. At High Island there are about five rigs located within 5 miles of the beach. One of my favorite one is what we call the sister rig. It looks like two rigs close together from a distance, but once up close you see it is just a huge rig. You can tie off under it in the shade. But I have not paddle to it yet, have fished it often from a boat. The rig that I g to most often in a Kayak is off the beach at Sea Rim located 15 miles west of sabine pass. This area is dotted with rigs. The sea rim rig is a gas production platform that is crewed 24/7 with two men. Within a mile of it is two gas stands. The large rig is located 2 miles off the beach, the last gas stand is 3 miles off the beach. This is the only place I have found that you can rig hopp in a kayak, that is very cool. Lot of kings and other fish hang out between these rigs with good snapper coming off the last gas stand.

Fih that I keep are put below deck or in a cooler in the tankwell.

Often I will go offshore more then two miles, not going to rigs. But chasng birds, shrimp boats or just going out that far. In the last few years I have started to chase Tarpon in my kayak and they tend to hold 2.5-3 miles from the beach in my area. So I will make trips out to them with no structure around.

Here is an old report of mine from a few years ago. We had a fun day going out to the rig at Sea Rim. Chased shrimp boats on the way out and drifted on the way back. I could not find it on TKF but had it on EC.

Link to report
http://extremecoast.com/r...rts/report082105.htm

Mrs Backlasher

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3/19/2007 3:54 PM

This will be an EXCELLENT PACK meeting in August with TJ Pilgrim (aka Jolly Roger) as the guest speaker. Maybe I can get my BTB photos enlarged and bring them to that meeting. TJ helped me as I caught a 44" redfish at the BTB session October 8, 2005. That was a most memorable fishing trip. Maybe we can get TJ to take the PACK group on a Beyond the Breakers (BTB) outing. It would be a splendid time, for sure!