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July 8, 2022
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TEXAS SALTWATER FISHING REPORT SABINE LAKE: 85 degrees. Speckled trout are good on points, drops and inlets, and in the surf, on live shrimp under a popping cork and 5-inch soft plastics. Redfish are good on mullet and shrimp in cuts into marshes. BOLIVAR: 82 degrees. Redfish are fair on the grass lines by Goat Island on shrimp and mullet. TRINITY BAY: 88 degrees. Speckled trout are fair on soft plastic lures and live shrimp. EAST GALVESTON BAY: 89 degrees. Speckled trout are fair over open bay reefs on artificials and shrimp. WEST GALVESTON BAY: 89 degrees. Speckled trout are fair in the guts of San Luis Pass and drifting deep shell reefs on live croaker. TEXAS CITY: 86 degrees. Speckled trout and redfish are fair to good off the South Galveston jetty on live shrimp. FREEPORT: 86 degrees. Redfish, speckled trout and flounder are good free-lining live shrimp and artificials in the river, and in the surf free-lining croaker.
EAST MATAGORDA BAY: 86 degrees. Redfish are good on cut mullet. Speckled trout are fair but small on croaker. WEST MATAGORDA BAY: 86 degrees. Redfish are good in the Colorado River and mud flats on cut mullet. Flounder gigging at night is excellent.
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PORT O’CONNOR: 91 degrees. Speckled trout are good on live croaker in the surf. Redfish and black drum are good on dead shrimp and sardines. ROCKPORT: 87 degrees. Speckled trout and redfish are good in the early morning on live bait and plastics and later on croaker. Black drum are good on dead shrimp.
PORT ARANSAS: 87 degrees. Speckled trout are good on croaker. Black drum and redfish are good on dead shrimp and cut mullet. CORPUS CHRISTI: 84 degrees. Speckled trout are fair on croaker and live shrimp. BAFFIN BAY: 85 degrees. Speckled trout are good on croaker along grass lines, with a few redfish mixed in. PORT MANSFIELD: 82 degrees. Speckled trout are good in deeper water on soft plastics. Redfish are fair on soft plastics. SOUTH PADRE: 87 degrees. Redfish are fair in the shallows on shrimp and soft plastics. Speckled trout are fair on soft plastics. PORT ISABEL: 87 degrees. Speckled trout are slow to fair along the ICW on shrimp. Redfish are fair on shrimp and soft plastics. —TPWD
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time.” Lubianski said the best part about the trip was that it was his nephew’s first saltwater fishing trip. “At the beginning of the trip we were all working with Preston, teaching him how to work the rod and reel and how to fight the fish,” he said. “Well when the action got hot and heavy, he was forced to do it all by himself, and he did great. By the end of the trip he was catching quality drum and reds all on his own, and that really made our adventure pretty special.” Capt. Dillon Hering has been chasing tripletail along the channel markers in and around Port Aransas along the Lydia Ann Channel and the Cor- Preston Lubianski caught this red drum in Rockport while pus Christi Ship Channel, as well as fishing from Capt. Greg Hodsdon’s airboat. Photo by Drew back north around channel markers Lubianski. along the ICW near Carlos Bay. “I’ve basically just been covering water looking for them,” Hering said. “Sometimes you find them hanging out along the surface, and sometimes you have to make a few casts to see if there is one nearby staging down deep.” A medium-sized live shrimp rigged under a popping cork has been the ticket for fooling tripletail. “If you don’t get a bite fairly quickly along a channel marker, then it’s time to move to the next one,” Hering elaborated. “It doesn’t take long. If there is a tripletail there, it will eat that live shrimp.” Hering said any floating debris in the open bay waters of Aransas Bay have also been holding tripletail. “If I see anything floating on the surface at all, I usually go and check it out,” he said. “You just never know where you’re going to find a tripletail during this time of year.” Most of the tripletail have been anywhere from 10 to 15 pounds. Hering said shell reefs in Copano Bay and Nueces Bay have been holding good numbers of trout in 2 to 5 feet of water. Live croaker under a popping cork has been his best bait. “Most of the trout in Copano Bay have been in the 17 to 20 inch range, but the fish in Nueces have been in the 18 to 23 inch range with some pushing 25 to 26 inches,” Hering said. Freeport guide Jake Brown has been targeting speckled trout and redfish near the mouths of the Brazos and San Bernard rivers. “There are a lot of fish in the rivers right now,” he said. “Just about anywhere where there is structure or a depth change has been holding trout and reds.” Brown also has been targeting guts between sand bars along the inside of the San Luis Pass in lower West Galveston Bay. “Live croaker chunked into any gut between sand bars that’s holding a lot of baitfish will produce solid specks,” he said.
