South Bay Fishing Reports (December 2025)

Zach Dagel
South Padre Island, Texas
Reported: 9 months ago

A steady school of sheepshead and redfish have been biting out by the jetties. We are catching limits of beautiful size sheepshead and chasing schools of big ole' bull redfish. I'm finding schools of fish using Garmin live scope. Live shrimp dropped into their face and you've got a bite!...

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Zach Dagel South Padre Island, Texas Reported: 9 months ago

A steady school of sheepshead and redfish have been biting out by the jetties. We are catching limits of beautiful size sheepshead and chasing schools of big ole' bull redfish. I'm finding schools of fish using Garmin live scope. Live shrimp dropped into their face and you've got a bite! I am crushing the big sheep head. They finally showed up an SPID give me a call if you wanna go catching not fishing.

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Frank Houser
Rockport, Texas
Reported: 9 months ago

It was a really hard Windy Afternoon Tuesday in South Copano Bay but we got 5 Reds Have a Great Day.

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Frank Houser Rockport, Texas Reported: 9 months ago

It was a really hard Windy Afternoon Tuesday in South Copano Bay but we got 5 Reds Have a Great Day.

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Michael Knox
South Padre Island, Texas
Reported: 9 months ago

The past week has been a decent one. Catching both speckled trout and redfish on soft plastics. Actually limited on speckled trout on every am trip last week on soft plastics. Larger swim baits have been my go too. Darker and natural mullet colors are both producing strikes. The tides...

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Michael Knox South Padre Island, Texas Reported: 9 months ago

The past week has been a decent one. Catching both speckled trout and redfish on soft plastics. Actually limited on speckled trout on every am trip last week on soft plastics. Larger swim baits have been my go too. Darker and natural mullet colors are both producing strikes. The tides are extremely low in the morning and fluxing in hard towards the afternoon. Catching redfish on the windier days especially in the afternoon as the tides push in. Schools of black drum are popping up in deeper water transitions. Expect the bite to remain solid as long as weather remains stable.

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Greg Hodsdon
Rockport, Texas
Reported: 9 months ago

Fishing has continued to be good with the mild winter with large schools of drum and scattered reds on the shorelines.

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Greg Hodsdon Rockport, Texas Reported: 9 months ago

Fishing has continued to be good with the mild winter with large schools of drum and scattered reds on the shorelines.

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Brody Jones
Rockport, Texas
Reported: 9 months ago

Fishing has been great Lots of black drum and quite a few reds mixed in Big drum are starting to run It's shaping up to be a great spring time full of awesome fishing. We have plenty of days open to get people booked up.

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Brody Jones Rockport, Texas Reported: 9 months ago

Fishing has been great Lots of black drum and quite a few reds mixed in Big drum are starting to run It's shaping up to be a great spring time full of awesome fishing. We have plenty of days open to get people booked up.

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Glenn Harrison
South Padre Island, Texas
Reported: 9 months ago

Winter time fishing has been solid throughout the south Padre Island area. Snook and large trout remain plentiful in the Brownsville ship channel. Many of my trips have been with less experienced anglers and we have been focusing on speckled trout in deeper water with great success. The wonderful thing...

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Glenn Harrison South Padre Island, Texas Reported: 9 months ago

Winter time fishing has been solid throughout the south Padre Island area. Snook and large trout remain plentiful in the Brownsville ship channel. Many of my trips have been with less experienced anglers and we have been focusing on speckled trout in deeper water with great success. The wonderful thing about being this far south is that "winter "means the temperature dropped into the 60s with highs near 80s during the day. Of course we get a cold front or two that slows fishing For a day as the front passes but the weather warms right back up quickly. Red fishing has been consistent with top water action along with soft plastics being the ticket. Find the bait and the fish are there with them. Fly fishing trips have been outstanding during the extreme low tides that we have. Fish become concentrated and wafing for tailing red fish has been the name of the game. Fishing will remain consistent and only get better as spring progresses.

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Travis Price
Rockport, Texas
Reported: 9 months ago

Water temps still sitting in mid 60's red and trout are in waste deep water. We have been starting the mornings with corky's or soft plastics for our trout. For redfish we are sticking with a soft plastic with a 1/16 jig head. Be looking for scattered shell and mud...

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Travis Price Rockport, Texas Reported: 9 months ago

Water temps still sitting in mid 60's red and trout are in waste deep water. We have been starting the mornings with corky's or soft plastics for our trout. For redfish we are sticking with a soft plastic with a 1/16 jig head. Be looking for scattered shell and mud with a shell flat to the outside. As the day heats up the fish are movie closer to shoreline to sun. The double D has been a killer bait in the afternoon for both reds and trout in the afternoon over shell.

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Zach Dagel
South Padre Island, Texas
Reported: 9 months ago

Redfish and sheep head are biting in South Padre Island; Do you wanna get in on this bite? Book a trip and let's go fishing. We're catching multiple oversize reds anywhere from 28 inches to 40.

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Zach Dagel South Padre Island, Texas Reported: 9 months ago

Redfish and sheep head are biting in South Padre Island; Do you wanna get in on this bite? Book a trip and let's go fishing. We're catching multiple oversize reds anywhere from 28 inches to 40.

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