Middle Texas Coast

HotSPOTlight: Upper Corpus Christi Bay

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LOCATION: Espirito Santo Bay
HOTSPOT: Pringle Lake
GPS: N 28 19.083, W 96 30.425
(28.3181, -96.5071)

SPECIES: Redfish
BEST BAITS: Live shrimp under cork
TIPS: Use a 16-inch leader, make a long drift; dawn through morning.

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LOCATION: Espirito Santo Bay
HOTSPOT: Saluria Bayou
GPS: N 28 24.01, W 96 24.992
(28.4002, -96.4165)

SPECIES: Speckled Trout
BEST BAITS: Live croaker
TIPS: Great cool weather spot, fish deep water; avoid dawn.

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LOCATION: San Antonio Bay
HOTSPOT: Half Moon Reef
GPS: N 28 20.274, W 96 46.347
(28.3379, -96.7725)

SPECIES: Speckled Trout
BEST BAITS: Shrimp under a popping cork
TIPS: In November be on the lookout for shell structure.

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LOCATION: Copano Bay
HOTSPOT: Newcomb’s Bend
GPS: N 28 9.27, W 97 1.123
(28.1545, -97.0187)

SPECIES: Redfish
BEST BAITS: Topwaters, live bait
TIPS: Fish topwaters before sunup, live bait deep later in the day; dawn through afternoon.

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LOCATION: Rockport
HOTSPOT: East Pocket
GPS: N 28 07.675, W 96 57.809
(28.127917, -96.963483)

SPECIES: Redfish
BEST BAITS: Spoons, plastics
TIPS: Drift the pocket area with gold spoons, dark soft plastics and 1/16-oz jigs; morning through afternoon.

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LOCATION: Port Aransas
HOTSPOT: North Shoreline
GPS: N 27 56.1799, W 97 4.471
(27.9363, -97.0745)

SPECIES: Speckled Trout
BEST BAITS: Live shrimp under a popping cork
TIPS: Don’t forget the flounder that should still be in the bay system.

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LOCATION: Redfish Bay
HOTSPOT: Inside Ransom
GPS: N 27 52.468, W 97 8.5
(27.8745, -97.1417)

SPECIES: Redfish
BEST BAITS: Topwaters or soft plastics
TIPS: Fish a Jumping Minnow in chartreuse or a Skitter Walk in chartreuse/silver. In soft plastics, Down South Lures in chartreuse glitter or Candy Apple with a 1/16 oz. lead head jig.

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LOCATION: Corpus Christi Bay
HOTSPOT: Shamrock Cove
GPS: N 27 44.017, W 97 9.747
(27.7336, -97.1625)

SPECIES: Redfish
BEST BAITS: Spoons and soft plastics
TIPS: Use a copper spoon, if you can find it. It’s not really the size and color of spoons, but more the area where they are going to be used. Super grassy, a lighter spoon so it doesn’t sink as fast. Sand pocket and less grass, go with a little heavier spoon.

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LOCATION: Corpus Christi Bay
HOTSPOT: Wells
GPS: N 27 44.764, W 97 11.1409
(27.7461, -97.1857)

SPECIES: Redfish
BEST BAITS: Live Piggy Perch or Live Shrimp
TIPS: If perch are not available, try free lining live shrimp or pumpkin seed-colored plastics. Work around the rigs.

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LOCATION: Upper Laguna Madre
HOTSPOT: King Ranch Shoreline
GPS: N 27 29.134, W 97 21.108
(27.4856, -97.3518)

SPECIES: Speckled Trout & Redfish
BEST BAITS: Gulp under a Popping Cork
TIPS: Try the STX Tackle popping cork. It’s a solid cork, but it has a ceramic bead underneath the cork about the size of a marble, and then a little bead under that. Pop it and it has a deep sound.

 

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