Sight Fishing Redfish in South Texas

October 25, 2014 
Port Lavaca, Texas

It was a long trip down to Point Comfort. I was in Point Comfort to train at a local petrochemical plant and luckily, I had my best friend with me for the entire trip. We decided to find a local fishing charter because we heard that there was great fishing in the local bay. We found a guide through one of our plant contacts and booked the fishing trip. The guide’s name was Sonny and we met at the dock before sunrise. This is the first fishing trip that I had been on with Dylan. We started out early in the morning and I was able to snap a couple of pictures as the sun was rising. I thought it was very interesting that the bay was only 2-6 feet deep even though it was miles from one side to the other.

We started the morning by using corks and live shrimp to catch schooling trout. This is the first time that I had fished for trout so we made sure to get as much information from the guide as possible. The first fishing spot was a rock jetty reaching out into the bay. The guide informed us that when a school of trout is feeding that they continually regurgitate and eat the bait fish. So, we spotted an area along the rocks where there was an oily slick on top of the water indicating that the trout were feeding in the area. We popped our corks and landed our limit of trout by midmorning.

The guide then took us around the outskirts of the bay in hopes of catching some schooling redfish. We swapped out tackle to spinning reels with gold and silver spoons. We were in extremely shallow water and the guide was on the tower of the boat. We were sight casting the redfish when the guide would spot the fish from the tower. This was much more difficult than catching the trout. The guide caught one redfish which didn’t fit into the slot limit so we had to release him. We bounced around the rest of the morning trying to find schools of redfish. We caught several redfish but only one fit into the slot limit. By midafternoon our arms were sore from catching so many fish and we headed back to the dock. This was one of the best fishing trips I have ever been on.