Saltwater Fishing Report

East Matagorda Bay:

GOOD. 62 degrees. Drum and redfish are good fishing reefs or wade fishing along the shoreline. Trout bite is hit-or-miss. Expect the bite to improve with the tide schedule and in the upswing of the full moon next week. Report by Captain Charlie Paradoski, Captain Charlie Paradoski’s Guide Service.

West Matagorda Bay:

GOOD. 62 degrees. Drum and redfish are good fishing reefs or wade fishing along the shoreline. Trout bite is hit-or-miss. Expect the bite to improve with the tide schedule and in the upswing of the full moon next week. Report by Captain Charlie Paradoski, Captain Charlie Paradoski’s Guide Service.

Port O’Connor:

GOOD. 60 degrees. Sheepshead are biting during incoming tides throughout the jetties on dead or live shrimp. Bull redfish are good near Alcatraz on Spanish sardines. Slot redfish are slow but biting in the inside of the jetties on Spanish sardines and live shrimp. Few trout are being caught inside of the jetty washouts during incoming tides. Report by Captain Marty Medford, Captain Marty’s Fish of a Lifetime Guide Service.

Rockport:

GOOD. 63 degrees. Redfish and black drum are good with shrimp or cut mullet. Trout are good using a popping cork with live shrimp or soft plastics. Report by Captain Kenny Kramer, Kramer Fishing Charters.

Port Aransas:

GOOD. 63 degrees. Sheepshead with averages of 5 pounds are great with live shrimp at the tip and along the rocks. Trout are fair on live shrimp free lined along rocks. Redfish are good on shrimp and cut mullet. Report by Captain Kenny Kramer, Kramer Fishing Charters.

Corpus Christi:

FAIR. 66 degrees. Sheepshead are thick at the jetties with reports of nice size catches. Redfish are holding as shallow as possible using sardines and live shrimp under a popping cork. Drum are in waist deep water on the drop-offs in the channels running through sand bars fishing dead shrimp off the bottom. Trout bite should improve in the next couple weeks. Report by Captain Aerich Oliver, Rockport Paradise Outfitters.

Baffin Bay:

SLOW. 73 degrees. The water clarity is dirty through the land cut. The drum run is on with catches using peeled shrimp and crab. There is typically a trout after the drum run. Trout fishing is slow with a few catches on soft plastics. Report by Captain Cliff Webb. Spring patterns are just beginning on Baffin Bay and there is a lot of grass on both the north and south shoreline. Mullet is plentiful everywhere and that usually means that the fish are right behind them. Baffin Bay is usually a late starter. Meaning the water usually stays cooler than the warm grassy bays of Port Mansfield and Rockport, Port Aransas. Therefore the big feed up for the trout spawn is delayed usually to the last part of March through the early part of June. Fish plastics, topwaters, and Corkys on drops and edges and shorelines where there is the most bait. Look for slicks and bird activity as well. The trout spawn usually occurs when the water temperature gets to 75 or 80 degrees and stays there so from this point forward, Fish will be eating up to give them energy to spawn. See you on the water! Report by Captain Sally Black.