South Padre Island Weather Forecast

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Glenn Harrison
Glenn H.
South Padre Island, Texas
Reported 1 year ago
March has roared in like a lion with spring winds followed by a spectacular calm day or two for sight casting with a fly rod or spinning tackle. Windy days have been good on wind blown shorelines for Redfish on jigs and topwaters with the occasional trophy class Speckled Trout. The color change bite remains strong for school-sized Specks. Find the bait and you find the trout. The calm days have been spent on the skiff with shrimp pattern flies or fluke style baits presented for the taking. Redfish aplenty along with some tremendous trout showing us their back sides!...
Glenn Harrison
Glenn H. South Padre Island, Texas Reported 1 year ago
March has roared in like a lion with spring winds followed by a spectacular calm day or two for sight casting with a fly rod or spinning tackle. Windy days have been good on wind blown shorelines for Redfish on jigs and topwaters with the occasional trophy class Speckled Trout. The color change bite remains strong for school-sized Specks. Find the bait and you find the trout. The calm days have been spent on the skiff with shrimp pattern flies or fluke style baits presented for the taking. Redfish aplenty along with some tremendous trout showing us their back sides! Sheephead remain strong off the jetties for the bait crowd. Did I mention some giant Black Drum? Been keeping a fish strip handy to pitch in front of cruising "big uglies" along the way.
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Michael Knox
Mike K.
South Padre Island, Texas
Reported 1 year ago
The bay fishing has remained decent throughout the past week. Sheepshead are still thick at the jetties if the weather permits. Catching speckled trout all over the bay on soft plastics and live shrimp under corks. Try to find some deeper water near a transition into a shallower drop off. Fish are moving up and down these water depth changes. Redfishing has been better in the afternoon. Once the wind picks up the bite heats up as well. Expect it to be a busy spring break for fishing.
Michael Knox
Mike K. South Padre Island, Texas Reported 1 year ago
The bay fishing has remained decent throughout the past week. Sheepshead are still thick at the jetties if the weather permits. Catching speckled trout all over the bay on soft plastics and live shrimp under corks. Try to find some deeper water near a transition into a shallower drop off. Fish are moving up and down these water depth changes. Redfishing has been better in the afternoon. Once the wind picks up the bite heats up as well. Expect it to be a busy spring break for fishing.
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Zach Dagel
Zach D.
South Padre Island, Texas
Reported 1 year ago
I've been doing the same thing every day, catching her fit on the jetty; we're just crushing them.
Zach Dagel
Zach D. South Padre Island, Texas Reported 1 year ago
I've been doing the same thing every day, catching her fit on the jetty; we're just crushing them.
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Ron Marett
Ron M.
Port Isabel, Texas
Reported 1 year ago
SPI is on fire 🔥
Ron Marett
Ron M. Port Isabel, Texas Reported 1 year ago
SPI is on fire 🔥
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Glenn Harrison
Glenn H.
South Padre Island, Texas
Reported 1 year ago
With the passing of what hopefully will be the last big cold front of the year, fishing has warmed back up along with the weather. Yesterday was speckled trout on spinning tackle with a nice family from Minnesota. Today was fly fishing on my Maverick's gift for redfish and trophy trout. We have a SpaceX launch scheduled for Friday, which should be outstanding as the weather looks good through the middle of next week at least. Time for a geographical cure; come see me in South Padre Island!
Glenn Harrison
Glenn H. South Padre Island, Texas Reported 1 year ago
With the passing of what hopefully will be the last big cold front of the year, fishing has warmed back up along with the weather. Yesterday was speckled trout on spinning tackle with a nice family from Minnesota. Today was fly fishing on my Maverick's gift for redfish and trophy trout. We have a SpaceX launch scheduled for Friday, which should be outstanding as the weather looks good through the middle of next week at least. Time for a geographical cure; come see me in South Padre Island!
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Michael Knox
Mike K.
South Padre Island, Texas
Reported 1 year ago
The bay fishing is starting to get interesting. Lots of sheepshead moving along the rocks at the jetties. Just need calmer weather to go get after them. Some bull reds are showing up there also. As the water temperature warms up after the cold weather we had last week expect the bite to only heat up as well. Speckled trout and redfish will move out deeper water in search of warmer temperatures and begin feeding on prey as it moves out shallower. Schools of black drum will also be easy targets once warmer water temperatures rise.
Michael Knox
Mike K. South Padre Island, Texas Reported 1 year ago
The bay fishing is starting to get interesting. Lots of sheepshead moving along the rocks at the jetties. Just need calmer weather to go get after them. Some bull reds are showing up there also. As the water temperature warms up after the cold weather we had last week expect the bite to only heat up as well. Speckled trout and redfish will move out deeper water in search of warmer temperatures and begin feeding on prey as it moves out shallower. Schools of black drum will also be easy targets once warmer water temperatures rise.
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Ruben Riojas
Ruben R.
South Padre Island, Texas
Reported 1 year ago
Fishing has been good catching reds on both lures and bait. Trouts haven good in deeper water on live shrimp
Ruben Riojas
Ruben R. South Padre Island, Texas Reported 1 year ago
Fishing has been good catching reds on both lures and bait. Trouts haven good in deeper water on live shrimp
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Jonathan Garza
Jonathan G.
Port Isabel, Texas
Reported 1 year ago
We have been on some big fish! Drum have been hanging around the flats in large schools. Trout bite has been great every trip with artificial lures and chunking out mullet in the flats for red fish 🎣🎣
Jonathan Garza
Jonathan G. Port Isabel, Texas Reported 1 year ago
We have been on some big fish! Drum have been hanging around the flats in large schools. Trout bite has been great every trip with artificial lures and chunking out mullet in the flats for red fish 🎣🎣
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Zach Dagel
Zach D.
South Padre Island, Texas
Reported 1 year 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.
Zach Dagel
Zach D. South Padre Island, Texas Reported 1 year 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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Michael Knox
Mike K.
South Padre Island, Texas
Reported 1 year 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...
Michael Knox
Mike K. South Padre Island, Texas Reported 1 year 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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