Great weekend

This was a great fishing weekend. First off, I apologize for having posted anything in a while, the reason is that because of school I haven't been able to go, and also the couple of fishing trips that I've gone on lately have been nothing to brag about. This weekend was great because a good friend came down for the weekend and we were able to take him out and do some good fishing before the weekenders came out and took up alot of the good spots. We went out friday afternoon to the South Padre Island jetties, mainly for the comfort and easy access to it and since we're officially in fall we wanted to target some nice flatties along the jetties on the surf side, so off we went. There weren't a great amount of people there, compared to the mounds that surround the area on saturdays and sundays, and we fished into the sunset and into the dark, and all during the afternoon alot of people were catching little black tips around 2 1/2 feet long, which isn't great because that size isn't great eating and also they're so tiny and I prefer when they get a little larger and stronger for the fight! Well around dusk I was fishing into the shallows where the mullet were thriving in the pocket that's made by the shore and the start of the jetties, with a ridiculously long leader attached to a popping cork while live mullet. Then the popping cork started moving slowly out along the rocks and I waited for a good hook set and then when I set the hook it took off, so I played with it and it turned out to be a 34" red and later in the same area I caught another red at 26". One thing that I noticed was that both of the reds had long slash marks at their tails, looking like something large took a nip at them and I remembered that there was sharks in the area. My friend later into the night in the darkness nowhere near the coleman lantern caught two nice trout one 24" and the other 19". One thing that kept us active all night were the constant hook ups with the skipjacks that were out there that night, annoying but did keep us busy. Overall, it was a good afternoon fishing trip, Lord willing we have alot more like that in the future!