Prepared by J.P. Greeson, Bink Grimes, Kendal Hemphill and Karen Taylor for the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department under a federal grant through the Sport Fish and Wildlife Restoration Program. Updated 3:22am, 11-26-03.
COASTAL
NORTH SABINE: Trout are good under the birds and on the shorelines on topwaters and chartreuse and orange tipped plastics. Redfish are mixed in under the birds. Flounder are good on the shorelines on mud minnows and jigs.
SOUTH SABINE: Trout are good under the birds on topwaters and pearl/chartreuse and red/white plastics. Redfish and flounder are good in the bayous on mud minnows and chartreuse touts. Flounder are also good at the causeway bridge on mud minnows.
BOLIVAR: Flounder are good at Rollover Pass on mud minnows. Redfish and trout are fair to good on the bay side of the Pass on live shrimp. Sheepshead, black drum, and croaker are good on fresh dead shrimp.
TRINITY BAY: Flounder, sheepshead, and croaker are fair to good around the HL&P spillway on live shrimp and jigs. Trout are fair to good on the east shoreline around Hodges Reef on topwaters and shrimptails.
EAST GALVESTON BAY: Trout are fair to good under the birds on glow/chartreuse Kelly Wiggler shrimptails. Redfish are good in the Intracoastal along the cuts on live or dead shrimp.
WEST GALVESTON BAY: Trout are fair to good under the birds on red/white and white/chartreuse shrimptails. Redfish are scattered under the birds. Redfish are also good in the Green's marsh and Hall's Bayou on live shrimp.
TEXAS CITY: Flounder are good from the piers on the dike and the shorelines on mud minnows and red, chartreuse, and white curly-tailed jigs. Croaker and sheepshead are good off the dike on fresh dead shrimp.
FREEPORT: Trout, redfish and flounder are fair to good at San Luis Pass and Christmas Bay on live shrimp and jigs tipped with shrimp. Redfish are fair to good in Christmas Bay and East Union on shrimp.
EAST MATAGORDA: Trout are fair to good on motor oil and plum shrimptails and jerk baits under the birds when the wind allows. Redfish are good on the shorelines on chartreuse and orange tipped plastics. Flounder are fair to good at Old Gulf Cut on jigs tipped with shrimp and finger mullet.
MATAGORDA: Redfish are good on the south shoreline on gold and silver spoons and chartreuse and orange tipped imitations. Trout are fair to good on the north shoreline around Twin and Shell Islands on shrimp and glow plastics.
PORT O'CONNOR: Trout are fair to good on the deep shell on glow and red shad plastics. Redfish are good at the jetty on finger mullet and crabs. Flounder are fair to good at Mule Slough and the Intracoastal on live shrimp and red split-tailed jigs tipped with shrimp.
ROCKPORT: Trout and redfish are fair to good on the Estes Flats on red/white and pearl/chartreuse Cocohoe Minnows, live shrimp, and pin perch. Flounder are fair to good on mud minnows on the shorelines and spoil areas.
PORT ARANSAS: Trout and redfish are fair on the East Flats on live shrimp and red/white plastics. Flounder are good on the shorelines near the Lydia Ann Channel and spoil banks on mud minnows and bright-colored jigs.
CORPUS CHRISTI: Black drum, whiting, and sand trout are good in the bay on fresh dead shrimp. Redfish and black drum are good at the Oso Bridge on dead shrimp and mullet.
BAFFIN BAY: Trout are fair to good on topwaters around the Tide Gauge and the Land Cut. Redfish, flounder, and black drum are fair to good at the Land Cut on strawberry shrimptails, live piggy perch and mud minnows.
PORT MANSFIELD: Trout are fair to good on the spoil banks on red/white artificials. Redfish are fair to good in the Ship Channel on shrimp and red/white Cocohoe Minnows. Flounder are good on mud minnows and finger mullet near East Cut.
SOUTH PADRE: Trout are fair to good on the spoil banks on red/white Norton shad imitations. Redfish and flounder are fair to good on the spoils and in the channel on red/white plastics tipped with shrimp.
PORT ISABEL: Trout and redfish are fair at Three Islands and the Gas-Well Flats on shrimp and red/white Gamblers and Sand Eels. Trout are fair at Holly Beach and South Bay on shrimp and red/white and electric blue Gamblers, Sand Eels and Bass Assassins.
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