Aransas Pass Progress Jeff Skipper, 49, is a Mississippi native who found steady work here doing storm restoration following Hurricane Harvey in August 2017 and decided to stay, calling Aransas Pass home. Unable to find decent tasting crawfish anywhere in the Coastal Bend, in 2020 he opened a seasonal business that immediately proved a success, selling the small crustaceans he boils, his proprietary spices a closely guarded secret.