Our weekly guide to action at favored fishing spots
GOOD NEWS FOR ANGLERS: Trinity Bay is back in business after an outbreak of fresh water kept the fish from biting there for nearly a month. The weather offers good news throughout the weekend and into the holiday week before wet weather begins to plague the area leading into Independence Day.
Bolivar: Trout are fair to good on the south shoreline on soft plastics and plugs. Black drum and redfish are good at Rollover Pass.
Trinity Bay: Trout are for drifters working shell pads and deep reefs on Gamblers, Lil Johns and Bass Assassins. Redfish and trout are fair to good at the spillway on shrimp. The Trinity River is beginning to clear.
East Galveston Bay: Trout are fair on the south shoreline on topwaters and soft plastics. Whiting and sand trout are good on the edge of the Intracoastal on fresh shrimp. Trout are good on mid–bay reefs on plastics and croakers.
West Galveston Bay: Trout are fair to good for drifters working shell on live shrimp. Trout, sheepshead, redfish and black drum are good at the jetty on shrimp. Kingfish, ling, red snapper and sharks are good offshore.
Texas City: Trout are fair on the channel reefs on croakers. Sand trout are fair on fresh shrimp off the piers.
Freeport: Sand trout and sheepshead are good on live shrimp on the reefs. Trout and sand trout are good at the jetties on shrimp and DOA Shrimp. Kingfish, red snapper and ling are good offshore.
East Matagorda Bay: Trout are fair to good for drifters on live shrimp over humps and scattered shell. Redfish are fair along the south shoreline while wading with croakers and shrimp.
West Matagorda Bay: Redfish are fair to good on the edge of Oyster Lake on shrimp and crabs. Trout are fair on sand and grass on soft plastics and croakers.
Port O’Connor: Trout and redfish are good on Down South Lures and Hogies over soft mud in waist–deep water in San Antonio Bay. Trout and redfish are fair at the mouths of bayous on the outgoing tide. Trout and bull redfish are good at the jetty on shrimp.
