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FORECAST CENTER: Saltwater Hotspots – Middle Coast Nov/Dec 2025
HotSPOTlight: Upper Corpus Christi Bay LOCATION: Espirito Santo BayHOTSPOT: Pringle LakeGPS: N 28 19.083, W 96 30.425(28.3181, -96.5071) > Espirito Santo Bay: Pringle Lake SPECIES: RedfishBEST BAITS: Live shrimp under corkTIPS: Use a 16-inch leader, make a long drift; dawn through morning. . . . LOCATION: Espirito Santo BayHOTSPOT: Saluria BayouGPS: N 28 24.01, W
FORECAST CENTER: Saltwater Hotspots – Lower Coast Nov/Dec 2025
HotSPOTLight: Port Isabel/S. Padre Island LOCATION: Baffin BayHOTSPOT: Badlands SouthGPS: N 27 17.152, W 97 25.053(27.2859, -97.4176) > Baffin Bay: Badlands South SPECIES: Speckled TroutBEST BAITS: Shrimp, croakerTIPS: Drift over flats with shrimp or anchor near grass with croakers; good action all day. . . . LOCATION: Baffin BayHOTSPOT: BadlandsGPS: N 27 18.228, W 97
FORECAST CENTER: Freshwater Hotspots – East Texas Nov/Dec 2025
CURRENT WATER LEVELS HotSPOTLight: Lake Sam Rayburn LOCATION: Lake Bob SandlinHOTSPOT: Bob Sandlin DamGPS: N 33 4.069, W 95 0.204(33.0678, -95.0034) > Lake Bob Sandlin: Bob Sandlin Dam SPECIES: CatfishBEST BAITS: Liver, wormsTIPS: Anchor, chum and tightline with liver or worms on Carolina rig; dawn, morning, dusk, night . . . LOCATION: Brandy Branch ReservoirHOTSPOT:
FORECAST CENTER: Freshwater Hotspots – West Texas Nov/Dec 2025
CURRENT WATER LEVELS HotSPOTLight: Lake Bridgeport LOCATION: Lake Alan HenryHOTSPOT: Stained Water by Power LinesGPS: N 33 2.126, W 101 7.766(33.0354, -101.1294) > Lake Alan Henry: Stained Water by Power Lines SPECIES: Largemouth BassBEST BAITS: SpinnerbaitsTIPS: Slow roll and thump a 1/2 to 1 ounce spinnerbait with a CO blade; midday-afternoon. . . . LOCATION:
CCA Makes Stand On Microplastic Pollution
Texas’s bays & beaches are vital to our economy and outdoor traditions, supporting millions of jobs and billions in revenue. However, microplastic pollution, especially from local plastic production, can threaten marine life, public health, and our industries. The influx of plastic pellets along our coast is degrading natural beauty and risking the future of fishing
Free State Park Admission Nov. 2
Have you always wanted to visit a state park but never been? Make plans to visit one of 89 Texas State Parks on Nov. 2! In honor of Texas State Parks Day, a tradition born from 2023’s centennial celebration, everyone can visit a state park for the day for free. “We hope that Texas State
Black Bears Returning to Texas In A Big Way
Across Texas, from the piney woods of the east to the mountains of the far west, a quiet comeback is underway. Black bears once nearly wiped out from the state are returning. It started in East Texas. Game cameras in places like Rusk and Anderson Counties began catching grainy nighttime images of a dark figure
TPWD Makes Duck Season Prediction
Abundant population numbers and above average rainfall during the summer months is a confidence booster for hunters preparing for the start of the new waterfowl hunting season. Texas Parks and Wildlife Department (TPWD) biologists indicated that teal, gadwall, wigeon, pintails, shovelers and redheads, key duck species for Texas hunters, are collectively plentiful and showed population
Try This For Fall Drought Trout
Early fall along the Texas Coast is supposed to bring a hint of cool air and a few north winds to stir the bays. But some years, summer just won’t let go. The tide lines bake under a relentless sun, the marsh drains to a trickle, and salt crusts the edges of every flat. Yet
Hogzilla Is Looking For!
Do you have any evidence that the” Hogzilla” pigs of any kind exist? I need your assistance with a new job that I’m working on to record monster hogs in Texas and the surrounding area. If you’ve ever taken pictures of enormous wild swine that are either dead or being harvested, or whose tusks are
Flounder Cutbacks Are Upon Approach
A quiet change is about to make its way across the fish industry along the Gulf Coast, from Louisiana’s marshes to Texas ‘ bays. As Southern flounder started their crucial fall movement and spawning season, both states are working to impose their annual crumble closures, which are temporary bans. No fish may be lawfully harvested
Texas Freshwater Fisheries Center to Reopen
The Texas Freshwater Fisheries Center (TFFC) will reopen Oct. 8 following the completion of emergency repairs to a steel structural support column in the main visitor center building. The visitor center has remained closed since emergency repairs began in early August. “The closure timing was certainly less than ideal, but the safety of our visitors
