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SALTWATER FISHING REPORT

TEXAS SALTWATER FISHING REPORT

SABINE LAKE: 81 degrees. Speckled trout and redfish are fair to good on live shrimp under a popping cork, jigs with plastics. Speckled trout are good at the jetties on topwaters, shrimp and artificials.

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BOLIVAR: 82 degrees. Redfish are good on live shrimp under a popping cork. Speckled trout are fair on free-lined shrimp and croaker.

TRINITY BAY: 88 degrees. Redfish are fair on shrimp. Speckled trout are fair on artificials and shrimp.

EAST GALVESTON BAY: 89 degrees. Redfish and speckled trout are good early on live shrimp under a popping cork and croaker.

WEST GALVESTON BAY: 89 degrees. Speckled trout are fair in the guts of San Luis Pass on live croaker and drifting shell reefs on croaker.

TEXAS CITY: 86 degrees. Speckled trout and redfish are fair at Moses Lake under birds on soft plastics and live shrimp under popping corks. Redfish are good at Dickinson Bayou on live shrimp.

FREEPORT: 85 degrees. Redfish, speckled trout and flounder are good in the river freelining live shrimp and scented plastics. Trout and redfish are good in the surf and pass free-lining croaker and mullet.

EAST MATAGORDA BAY: 85 degrees. Redfish and speckled trout are good drifting with live shrimp under popping corks and croaker.

WEST MATAGORDA BAY: 85 degrees. Redfish and undersized trout are good wading with

artificials. Redfish are good in the Colorado River on live shrimp under a popping cork. PORT O’CONNOR: 90 degrees. Speckled trout are good on live croaker in the jetties and surf early. Redfish are good on dead shrimp and sardines at the end of the jetties. Black drum are slow.

ROCKPORT: 86 degrees. Speckled trout are good on soft plastics and croaker. Redfish are good early wading with live bait, top-waters and artificials. Black drum are good on dead shrimp.

PORT ARANSAS: 86 degrees. Bull redfish are good at the end of the jetties on cut menhaden, mullet and live croaker.

CORPUS CHRISTI: 85 degrees. Speckled trout are fair on live croaker and shrimp. Black drum are good on the wells on shrimp.

BAFFIN BAY: 90 degrees. Speckled trout are very good on croaker in 2 feet of water along the edge of grass lines.

PORT MANSFIELD: 82 degrees. Speckled trout are good in deeper water on paddle tails. Redfish are fair on soft plastics.

SOUTH PADRE: 85 degrees. Redfish are good on the oyster reefs on shrimp. Speckled trout are fair drifting with soft plastics and shrimp.

PORT ISABEL: 85 degrees. Speckled trout and redfish are fair at the gas wells on shrimp.

—TPWD

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