Upper Texas Coast

HotSPOTLight: Sabine Pass

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LOCATION: Christmas/Bastrop Bay
HOTSPOT: Christmas Bay North Shore
GPS: N 29 4.009, W 95 11.625
(29.06681667, -95.19375)

SPECIES: Speckled Trout
BEST BAITS: Soft plastics
TIPS: Norton Sand Eels, Trout Killers, Corkies

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LOCATION: Galveston Bay
HOTSPOT: Old Pilings
GPS: N 29 25.06, W 94 48.48
(29.4177, -94.8080)

SPECIES: Speckled Trout
BEST BAITS: Down South soft plastics
TIPS: Paddle tail soft plastics with either a 3/8 or 1/2 oz. lead head…bounce it off the shell. The sound helps draw the fish.

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LOCATION: Galveston East Bay
HOTSPOT: Little Pasture Bayou
GPS: N 29 31.254, W 94 32.318
(29.5209 -94.5386)

SPECIES: Redfish
BEST BAITS: Live and artificial redfish bait
TIPS: Drift grasslines, marsh, drains and scattered shell; avoid midday, night.

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LOCATION: Galveston Trinity Bay
HOTSPOT: Spillway
GPS: N 29 45.223, W 94 48.857
(29.7537 -94.8143)

SPECIES: Flounder
BEST BAITS: Live mud minnows, shrimp
TIPS: Anchor, fish discharge gut; dawn through morning, dusk and night.

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LOCATION: Galveston West Bay
HOTSPOT: Chocolate Bayou Cove
GPS: N 29 12.45, W 95 11.544
(29.2075 -95.1924)

SPECIES: Redfish
BEST BAITS: Shrimp
TIPS: Reds are schooling, chasing shrimp; dawn through morning, afternoon through dusk.

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LOCATION: Matagorda East Bay
HOTSPOT: Oyster Farm
GPS: N 28 41.47, W 95 48.521
(28.6912 -95.8087)

SPECIES: Flounder
BEST BAITS: Finger mullet, shrimp
TIPS: Anchor and work the bottom; afternoon.

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LOCATION: Matagorda East Bay
HOTSPOT: Catchall Basin Flats
GPS: N 28 42.881, W 95 45.214
(28.7147 -95.7536)

SPECIES: Redfish
BEST BAITS: Shrimp, soft plastics
TIPS: Drift with live shrimp under popping cork or with soft plastics; dawn-midday.

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LOCATION: Matagorda East Bay
HOTSPOT: Hog Island
GPS: N 28 39.149, W 95 52.624
(28.6525 -95.8771)

SPECIES: Speckled Trout
BEST BAITS: Shrimp, spoons
TIPS: Fish edges and drop-offs with shrimp under a popping cork, or spoons; dawn-morning, dusk-night.

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LOCATION: Matagorda West Bay
HOTSPOT: Mad Island Reef
GPS: N 28 37.211, W 96 5.783
(28.6202 -96.0964)

SPECIES: Flounder
BEST BAITS: Mud minnows
TIPS: Anchor and fish the bottom with mud minnows on a flounder rig; dawn-morning, dusk-night.

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LOCATION: Matagorda West Bay
HOTSPOT: Shell Island
GPS: N 28 37.533, W 96 3.515
(28.6256 -96.0586)

SPECIES: Redfish
BEST BAITS: Pink Skitter Walk topwater bait
TIPS: Watch for the shorebirds concentrating in one area. They are usually following redfish, blowing them up into the grass.

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LOCATION: Sabine Lake
HOTSPOT: Seawall Corner
GPS: N 29 52.748, W 93 54.557
(29.8791, -93.9093)

SPECIES: Black Drum
BEST BAITS: Shrimp, crab
TIPS: Fish live shrimp or crab.

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LOCATION: Sabine Lake
HOTSPOT: Black’s Bayou
GPS: N 29 59.866, W 93 45.182
(29.9978, -93.7530)

SPECIES: Speckled Trout
BEST BAITS: Soft Plastics with jig heads
TIPS: The birds are working shrimp with trout under them. Any of the bigger bayous are good places to check during October.

 

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