Texas Gulf Coast Fishing Report
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June 20, 2008 12:38 PM
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COLETO CREEK Water clear; 90 degrees (96 degrees at discharge); 1.86' low. Black bass to 4 pounds are fair on soft plastics and topwaters in 4 - 8 feet. Striped bass are slow. White bass are slow. Crappie are slow. Channel and blue catfish are slow. Yellow catfish are slow.
NORTH SABINE Trout are fair to good in the river on shad. Trout and redfish are good under birds on live shad, Trout Killers, Bass Assassins and Sand Eels.
SOUTH SABINE Trout are good from the Causeway Pier at night under the lights on live shrimp and tandem-rigged Bass Assassins, Little Fishies and DOA Shrimp. Redfish are good at the jetty and in the middle of the lake on live shad and shrimp. Trout are good around the rocks on topwaters.
BOLIVAR Trout are fair to good on MirrOlures at the pass. Redfish are good in the surf on cut-bait. Gafftop, sand trout and flounder are good at the Pass on live bait.
TRINITY BAY Waters are clearing in the bay. Trout are fair while drifting slicks on shrimptails, Bass Assassins, Trout Killers and Sand Eels. Trout, sand trout, redfish and croaker are fair on live bait at the Spillway.
EAST GALVESTON BAY Trout are fair while drifting shell on plastics. Live shrimp have worked, too. Trout are fair to good on croakers along the Ship Channel.
WEST GALVESTON BAY Trout are fair off the spoil banks on croaker. Gafftop, sand trout and whiting are good from the beachfront piers on live bait. Redfish are fair to good on the shell on live shrimp under a popping cork. Trout are fair at night from the beachfront piers on live shrimp.
TEXAS CITY Trout are fair to good on croaker on the Dollar Flats. Redfish are good in Moses Lake on live shrimp. Trout are fair off the end of the dike on DOA Shrimp.
FREEPORT Trout are fair at San Luis Pass on shrimp. Trout and redfish are fair in Christmas Bay while drifting with live shrimp. High tides have pushed fish into the back lakes.
EAST MATAGORDA Trout are fair to good while drifting scattered shell with live shrimp. Redfish are fair in Lake Austin on live shrimp.
MATAGORDA Trout are fair to good on the south shoreline on Bass Assassins, Sand Eel Jars and Trout Killers. Redfish and black drum are fair in Oyster Lake on live shrimp under a popping cork.
PORT O'CONNOR Trout are fair while drifting the flats on live shrimp under a popping cork. Trout are fair in Keller Bay on Electric Chicken Bass Assassins and Hogies. Redfish and sharks are good on live shrimp and mullet at the jetty and in the surf. Trout are fair on topwaters around Grass Island.
ROCKPORT Trout are fair to good on the outside of Traylor Island and on the Estes Flats on croaker and live shrimp. Trout are fair to good around Mud Island and Super Flats on Super Spooks and She Dogs.
PORT ARANSAS Sharks are good around the jetty and on the beachfront on finger mullet and shad. Redfish are fair to good around Pelican Island on live shrimp. Offshore is good for snapper, ling, Wahoo and kingfish.
CORPUS CHRISTI Trout and redfish are fair to good on live shrimp and croaker around the reefs in Nueces Bay. Trout and redfish are good around the causeway on live shrimp and pumpkinseed Trout Killers, Bass Assassins and Sand Eels. Redfish are fair to good on the East Flats on live shrimp.
BAFFIN BAY Trout are fair to good over sand and grass on plastics and topwaters. Drop-offs around the spoil islands have held trout on topwaters and soft plastics. Trout are good at night in the Land Cut on DOA Shrimp and glow plastics.
PORT MANSFIELD Trout and redfish are good while wading flats adjacent to East Cut on Super Spooks and Pop-Rs. Trout and are fair to good on live shrimp and plastics on the grass beds in West Bay. Trout and redfish are good on topwaters while drifting the east shoreline.
SOUTH PADRE Trout and redfish are fair to good while drifting the flats and bars on limetreuse and plum Bass Assassins, Trout Killers and Sand Eels. A few tarpon are beginning to show at the jetty. Snook are fair to good on shrimp and DOA Shrimp in South Bay.
PORT ISABEL Trout are good while drifting sand and grass on soft plastics under rattling corks. Higher tides have pushed redfish on the flats where anglers have taken good fish on small topwaters.
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