South Bay (CA) Fishing Reports (July 2026)

Arnold L.

Donna, Texas

Reported 3 years ago

Fishing heating up lots of action in the spoils and jetties on fire for kings

Arnold L. Donna, Texas Reported 3 years ago

Fishing heating up lots of action in the spoils and jetties on fire for kings

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Brad B.

Port Aransas, Texas

Reported 3 years ago

Started snapper season off with a bang today!!!

Brad B. Port Aransas, Texas Reported 3 years ago

Started snapper season off with a bang today!!!

Blacktip Shark, Red Snapper Fishing in Port Aransas, Texas

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Toby S.

Rockport, Texas

Reported 3 years ago

Reds have been good lately

Toby S. Rockport, Texas Reported 3 years ago

Reds have been good lately

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Russell R.

Port Isabel, Texas

Reported 3 years ago

March and April have been great for the weather. We’ve been catching a large variety of fish and doing a lot of 3-hour play days with large family groups! Nothing but smiles and good times here.

Russell R. Port Isabel, Texas Reported 3 years ago

March and April have been great for the weather. We’ve been catching a large variety of fish and doing a lot of 3-hour play days with large family groups! Nothing but smiles and good times here.

Speckled Trout Fishing in Port Isabel, Texas

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Randy L.

Port Aransas, Texas

Reported 3 years ago

Fishing has been great over the last 7 days, but totally different this year than previous years. Usually by now the sheepshead have started moving out and the reds are gettin full on hungry and bitin, but we are still catching some sheeps as of yesterday along with more keeper reds, some trout, flounder and even some bull reds. Wind has been pretty brutal, so jetty fishing is hard this time of year, but we are seeing some bull reds move into the jetty along with jack crevalle. The flats have been hit or miss and you just have to...

Randy L. Port Aransas, Texas Reported 3 years ago

Fishing has been great over the last 7 days, but totally different this year than previous years. Usually by now the sheepshead have started moving out and the reds are gettin full on hungry and bitin, but we are still catching some sheeps as of yesterday along with more keeper reds, some trout, flounder and even some bull reds. Wind has been pretty brutal, so jetty fishing is hard this time of year, but we are seeing some bull reds move into the jetty along with jack crevalle. The flats have been hit or miss and you just have to really know fish patterns to stay on top of finding them. There are bull reds bitin in spots I haven’t seen before, and the trout seem to be much more active, but we are catchin lots of shorts. It’s not hard to find fish, but it is fun this time of year to figure out what the fish are bitin on and when they are the hungriest. They might love some soft plastics one day, then hate them the next and want some live bait. That might even be the same scenario from morning to afternoon and since I am on the water almost every day, I see the changes. Yesterday was a slam of a great morning with my two customers, but by my afternoon trip with only one customer on the boat, even though we caught 8 different species of fish, all but two were short of being keepers. We did come home with fish for him to take home for dinner, but we fought hard for it!