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January 9, 2024

Try Coastal Rivers For Winter Reds

Over the past five winters, my primary destination for coastal fishing has been the Sabine River, although this wasn’t always my first choice. Often, relentless winds and a demanding schedule have compelled me to fish whenever […]
October 22, 2020

How To Keep Up With Schooling Reds

Schooling reds can move super fast during fall months and keeping up with them can be challenging. Here are some tips to put more fast-moving schooling reds in the box. Preparation for this kind of fishing […]
August 19, 2020

A Tale Of Two Redfish

On Sunday morning August 9th, my husband, myself, and one of our friends loaded up the boat for a day of fishing. We put the boat in the water at Conn Brown Harbor in Aransas Pass, […]
January 9, 2020

Reds, Specks and Flounder In January

January is the beginning of Texas’ truly cold weather. Savvy anglers however realize in Texas the fishing never shuts down, it just changes. That means the beginning of the year offers overlooked and in some cases […]
November 22, 2016

Winter Reds: You Can Always Find Texas Reds

When Other Gamefish Give You the Cold Shoulder, You Can Always Find Texas Reds I remember freezing my butt off while fishing off the side of the road with my dad during the winter, catching one redfish after […]
November 17, 2016

Texas Hotshots – 31″ Red Fish

31″ Red Fish caught off pier near Nueces Bay in Corpus Christi on whiting cut bait.
October 28, 2016

Texas Hotshots – Bayou Red

Debbie caught this red on a curly tailed gulp while sight casting in a narrow bayou off of Trinity Bay. Great fight in a confined space, hooked reds were charging the boat and actually running out […]
October 11, 2016

Time To Target Schooling Reds

After we’ve had a strong cold front, target the mouths of rivers and the very largest bayous emptying marsh if you want to catch large numbers of redfish.  As we all know, cold fronts purge the […]
September 16, 2016

A leopard or a redfish?

Redfish can easily be identified by a spot, or couple of spots on the fish’s tail. What if the fish had over 600 spots all over the fish? Patrick Bonin, who first found out about the […]
May 17, 2016

Catching Spring Reds

There are more redfish in Texas bay systems than there have been in more than 30 years. In fact, some areas are so thick with reds, anglers have a hard time catching legal-sized fish. No, I […]