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December Fishing Report From Parks & Wildlife

Following is the most recent weekly TEXAS CITY fishing report for the Texas Gulf Gulf trout are good in the channel Nice catch! Coast from the Texas Parks and on fresh shrimp. Sand trout Wildlife Department. and black drum are good at the wells on fresh NORTH shrimp. Flounder SABINE are fair to good Trout are fair around Sea Wolf to good under Park on birds and pods Gulps. of shad on soft plastics. Redfish FREEPORT and flounder are good Bull redfish are in the marsh on shrimp. good at jetty on Some of the upper end of the crabs, shrimp lake is fresh, but the river is and mullet. Redfish subsiding. are good on the James Smith of Deer Park with a Bull red beachfront on shad and mullet. Trout caught in on the Baytown SOUTH SABINE are good on the reefs in Christmas Bay side of the Fred Hartman Bridge. Trout are fair to good under birds and Bastrop Bay on shrimp. Send us your fishing photos! and pods of shad. Redfish are good Around La Porte knows how much you at the jetty on live bait and cracked EAST MATAGORDA love to fish. And maybe the only thing crabs. Flounder are good on the BAY better than fishing is showing off your falling tide around marsh drains Trout and redfish are catch. on jigs tipped with shrimp. good for We publish photos of readers with their waders on prized catch. Just email us the photo in jpeg format. BOLIVAR the south Make sure it is at least 4 inches wide Trout, black drum, sand shoreline. with 200 dots per inch (dpi). trout and redfish Trout are good Include your first and last names, what are good at Rollover for drifters on kind of fish, where you caught it and what Pass. Trout are fair to live shrimp and you used for bait. We’ll print as many pho- tos as we have room for. good while drifting soft plastics over Send photos to [email protected]. shell on plastics. humps and scattered Happy fishing! Bull redfish are shell on the north good on the shoreline. topwaters around shell in St. Charles beachfront. Bay and . WEST MATAGORDA BAY PORT ARANSAS Most of the upper Trout are Trout are fair to good on reefs on end of Trinity Bay is fresh. Lake fair on sand and grass humps on soft live shrimp and mullet. Bull redfish Livingston was discharging at 57,000 plastics and topwaters. Redfish are are good at the jetty and on the cfs. fair on the south shoreline on live beachfront on natural baits. shrimp. EAST GALVESTON BAY CORPUS CHRISTI Redfish and flounder are fair to PORT O’CONNOR Bull redfish are good in the surf on good in the marsh around drains Redfish are good in the back lakes mullet and shrimp. Redfish are good on shrimp. Trout and redfish are on shrimp and mullet. Bull redfish in the holes on live bait. Trout are good under the birds and over deep are good at the jetty on crabs, mullet fair to good around spoils for waders shell. and shad. Trout are fair to good on working mud on small topwaters. the reefs in on live WEST GALVESTON BAY shrimp. Bull redfish and flounder are good Trout are good on topwaters and at on shrimp and shad. ROCKPORT plum Gamblers, Down South Lures Sheepshead, redfish and black drum Redfish are good on the edge of the and Bass Assassins around rocks and are good at the jetty on shrimp and flats on live shrimp under a popping grass. Trout are good in the Land Cut crabs. cork. Trout are fair to good on at night under lights.

TP&W Department Announces Annual Winter Trout Stocking It’s time once again for the Texas Many of the fish stockings will will take a variety of baits, from The daily bag limit is five fish. Parks and Wildlife Department’s be conducted at small community whole kernel canned corn or com- For more information about annual winter rainbow trout stock- fishing lakes, state park lakes and mercial soft bait to artificial flies the winter trout fishing program, ing. popular river tailraces offering easy and even small spinnerbaits. including tips and the current trout Beginning in late November and angling access. Be sure to keep fresh trout cold stocking schedule listed by city or continuing through March, the Tex- Catching these hungry fish can be on ice or refrigerated. county, visit www.tpwd.texas.gov/ as Parks and Wildlife Department easy, making the experience ideal All anglers 17 years of age and troutstocking. will stock nearly 300,000 hatch- for both novice anglers and kids. older must have a valid freshwater A video of rainbow trout stocking ery-reared rainbow trout at more The fish will bite almost imme- fishing license as well as a freshwa- and fishing may be viewed at http:// than 140 sites across the state. diately after stocking and typically ter stamp. youtu.be/x_UEX_R_BRQ. www.aroundlaporte.com www.facebook.com/aroundlaporte AROUND LA PORTE • DECEMBER 2015