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Southeast Texas Fishing Spots
Sport fishing is a year-round way of life in southeast Texas. However if fishing is your primary interest in the region, fall is by far the best bet, when the fish are most active.
Deep-sea fishing is best in three main areas: Galveston, Port Aransas (which is near Corpus Christi), and South Padre Island. These are the places you can get a charter and travel far offshore and catch amberjack, red snapper, and other deep-sea fish. If you are a small party and don't want a charter, you can always take “party boats,” which have regular daily schedules and take 60 or more people at a time on a group fishing trip.
Padre Island Fishing Spots
It is important to remember, however, that saltwater fishing in southeast Texas is more than just the Gulf. The southeast Texas coast is completely lined with barrier islands, and the inland waterways that are formed in between are full of fish. From Galveston to Brownsville, which is on the Mexican border, there are many guides who can take a fisherman in flat-bottom boats to the flats, as they are known. These shallow, sand-bottomed areas are the best place to fish for speckled trout and redfish.
Gulf Coast and Galveston Fishing Spots
Of all the areas along the Gulf Coast, southeast Texas has the largest abundance of redfish, or red drum, due to the enforcement of conservation and game laws. Commercial fishing for redfish is highly illegal, and the game laws for fishing for them are very strict, and strictly enforced. In Mexico, and the other states along the Gulf Coast, this has not been the case, and as a consequence their populations of redfish are not nearly as plentiful. Redfish are a highly prized fish for eating as well as for sport fishing (they fight very hard), and in southeast Texas, even with all the legal restrictions, your likelihood of catching one is extremely high.
Your best bet if you want to catch redfish is to go to either Galveston or Corpus Christi. From these locations you can find private skippers with small 16- to 21-foot flat-bottom boats that can take you to the shallow flats in the inland waters and bays where the fish school. The experience is much more intimate than a Gulf charter, and these guys work hard to make sure you reel 'em in.
Fishing Spots in Houston, Austin, San Antonio, Padre Island and Southeastern Texas
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