IF SANTA CLAUS WANTED TO STOP for a brief fishing outing on Christmas Eve, he’d find the water good throughout the area. He’d get a big kick out of Texas City, where redfish and flounder are running abundant. It’s also very good in Trinity Bay, as live shrimp is a strong draw to sheepshead.
Trinity Bay: VERY GOOD. 63 degrees. Speckled trout are excellent on live shrimp under popping cork and soft plastics in deeper water. Redfish are excellent in the marsh on live mullet, soft plastics, and dead shrimp and are along the north and northwest shoreline. Sheepshead is very good on live shrimp.
East Galveston Bay: GOOD. 63 degrees. The flounder bite is good along the ICW spoils and drains. Redfish are good along the north shoreline by the wildlife refuge on soft plastics. Speckled trout are excellent near the island in deeper water. Catfish are slow.
West Galveston Bay: GOOD. 63 degrees. Redfish are good drifting live shrimp under popping cork and soft plastics. Flounder are good around Seawolf Park on live shrimp. Speckled trout are excellent on shrimp, soft plastics and topwaters. Catfish are still slow due to migratory patterns.
Texas City: VERY GOOD. 62 degrees. Redfish are very good on soft plastics and are off the rocks. Flounder is excellent on live shrimp or minnow. Speckled trout very good along levee on shrimp. Black drum is good on blue crab or shrimp.
Freeport: GOOD. 63 degrees. Redfish will be found in the deeper channels early in the day and are caught using live baits. Speckled trout bite is good around the surfside jetty. Flounder excellent along the marsh using live mullet. Bull reds are fair at the mouth of Brazos river on live bait.
East Matagorda Bay: GOOD. 64 degrees. Unchanged. Speckled trout is good on live shrimp under a popping cork and soft plastics. Redfish are very good in the marsh on live mullet, soft plastics and topwater. The flounder bite is excellent south with plastic in red or white color.
West Matagorda Bay: GOOD. 64 degrees. Speckled trout is good on live shrimp under a popping cork and soft plastics- looks near ICW-they will be wherever you see the mullet. Redfish are great in the marsh on live mullet, soft plastics and topwater. Flounder bite is excellent on down south plastic in red or white color near Mad Island cut.
Port O’Connor: GOOD. 62 degrees. Trout are good on a combination of live or fresh baits such as shrimp or crab in the shallow sand bars. Redfish are excellent on live shrimp. Bull reds are slow. Flounder are excellent around any kind of baitfish. You will have luck around Pass Cavallo. Sheepshead are very good near the jetty on live shrimp. Black drum is good on live shrimp or slow-moving bucktail
