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  • Tara Bozick •
  • Originally published January 15, 2009 at 12:17 a.m., updated January 15, 2009 at 12:17 a.m.

TEXAS CITY

Flounder are fair to good on the dropoffs adjacent to the channel. Best baits have been mud minnows, Gulps and jigs tipped with shrimp.

FREEPORT

Bull redfish are good at the jetty on shrimp and crabs. Sand trout and whiting are fair to good at San Luis Pass and the mouth of Cold Pass on soft plastics tipped with shrimp and peeled shrimp.

EAST MATAGORDA

Trout are fair to good while drifting over shell. Waders have taken better trout on the edge of muddy reefs. Tides are well below normal.

MATAGORDA

Trout are fair to good while drifting mud and shell on Gulps under popping corks. Redfish are fair on the south shoreline of West Bay in the guts and cuts on Bass Assassins, Sand Eels and Trout Killers.

PORT O'CONNOR

Bull redfish are good at the jetty on crabs, finger mullet and live shrimp. Trout are good over shell and mud in San Antonio Bay on soft plastics and live shrimp. Redfish are good in the channels and deep bayous on shrimp.

ROCKPORT

Trout are fair to good over shell and mud for waders working Corkies, MirrOlures and soft plastics in Copano Bay. Redfish are good on live shrimp under a cork while drifting the edges of the Estes Flats. Redfish are good in California Hole on mullet and shrimp.

PORT ARANSAS

Bull redfish are good at the jetty and on the edge of the Intracoastal on crabs, finger mullet, cut-bait and fresh table shrimp. Whiting, sand trout and sheepshead are good around the rocks on shrimp. A few black drum are beginning to show.

CORPUS CHRISTI

Redfish are good on shrimp on the edges of the spoils in the Intracoastal and in the Humble Channel. Trout are fair to good from the piers at night.

BAFFIN BAY

Trout are fair to good under lights at night in the Land Cut on live shrimp and glow plastics. Trout are fair to good on the edge of the channel and spoils on plastics, Gulps, Corkies and MirrOlures.

PORT MANSFIELD

Trout are good around rafts of mullet on Corkies, MirrOlures and suspending baits. Redfish are good around East Cut on mullet and other natural baits.

SOUTH PADRE

Trout, redfish and black drum are fair to good on the edge of the flats on shrimp and Gulps. Snook and mangrove snapper are good in the Brownsville Ship Channel.



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