South Padre Island Fishing Reports (December 2025)

Michael Knox
South Padre Island, Texas
Reported: 1 day ago

Captain Mikes Fishing Report for South Padre Island 12/20/25. The bay fishing has been good throughout the past couple of weeks. The weather has remained warmer than usual and the fish are biting. Catching speckled trout along deeper water transitions and along channels. Larger artificial baits that resemble baitfish worked...

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Michael Knox South Padre Island, Texas Reported: 1 day ago

Captain Mikes Fishing Report for South Padre Island 12/20/25. The bay fishing has been good throughout the past couple of weeks. The weather has remained warmer than usual and the fish are biting. Catching speckled trout along deeper water transitions and along channels. Larger artificial baits that resemble baitfish worked slowly has been producing some solid speckled trout. The windier days have been great days to hook into some redfish off the grass flats around South Padre Island. Fresh mullet rigged up and off the bottom has worked great on those redfish. You could also try swim baits and soft plastic worms out on the grass flats for those hungry reds. Expect the bite to remain solid as the weather remains warmer than usual.

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Jerry Santana
Weslaco, Texas
Reported: 1 week ago

State Water snapper is hot Black drum and redfish are still coming in through the channel We're catching them on shrimp and mullet

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Jerry Santana Weslaco, Texas Reported: 1 week ago

State Water snapper is hot

Black drum and redfish are still coming in through the channel

We're catching them on shrimp and mullet

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Jerry Santana
Weslaco, Texas
Reported: 2 weeks ago

Winter snapper is on fire

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Jerry Santana Weslaco, Texas Reported: 2 weeks ago

Winter snapper is on fire

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Michael Knox
South Padre Island, Texas
Reported: 4 months ago

The bay fishing has been good throughout the past weeks. Catching speckled trout on both live and artificial baits. Especially in that Margarita Green Water they love so much. Redfish have been tougher lately but still hooking some solid reds when the wind kicks up. Snook are being caught on...

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Michael Knox South Padre Island, Texas Reported: 4 months ago

The bay fishing has been good throughout the past weeks. Catching speckled trout on both live and artificial baits. Especially in that Margarita Green Water they love so much. Redfish have been tougher lately but still hooking some solid reds when the wind kicks up. Snook are being caught on the south end of our bay system when the tides are active. It's a good time of the year to get the kids hooked up on some nice fish and create some lasting memories.

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Zach Dagel
South Padre Island, Texas
Reported: 7 months ago

My redfish at the jetty are back. I caught 12 in less than an hour at the shell sport owners tournament looking for a couple trips this week.

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Zach Dagel South Padre Island, Texas Reported: 7 months ago

My redfish at the jetty are back. I caught 12 in less than an hour at the shell sport owners tournament looking for a couple trips this week.

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Michael Knox
South Padre Island, Texas
Reported: 7 months ago

The bay fishing around South Padre has been good if you like catching redfish. The spring winds have been howling and are leading anglers out onto the flats in pursuit of the redfish or red drum. This time of year we have an influx of bait that migrates into the...

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Michael Knox South Padre Island, Texas Reported: 7 months ago

The bay fishing around South Padre has been good if you like catching redfish. The spring winds have been howling and are leading anglers out onto the flats in pursuit of the redfish or red drum. This time of year we have an influx of bait that migrates into the Lower Laguna Madre Bay System and the gamefish like redfish and speckled trout follow the bait. Mix the bait migration with the high winds and you've got the recipe for redfish on the hook. I've been catching some solid speckled trout on soft plastics along color changes. The black drum are here also, just harder to find when the winds stir everything up. This is a great time of the year to get on down here around South Padre and wet a line for redfish. The end on May has always been a prime time to speckled trout fish. Those spring winds tend to die off and the speckled trout are thick in areas

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Gary Farmer
South Padre Island, Texas
Reported: 8 months ago

Fishing has been great this month!

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Gary Farmer South Padre Island, Texas Reported: 8 months ago

Fishing has been great this month!

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Glenn Harrison
South Padre Island, Texas
Reported: 8 months 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....

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Glenn Harrison South Padre Island, Texas Reported: 8 months 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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