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September Fishing Report From Parks & Wildlife

Following is the most recent weekly Trout are fair to good on the shell adjacent fishing report for the Texas Gulf to the channel on live bait. Nice catch! Coast from the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department. West Sheepshead, redfish North Sabine and black drum are Trout are good good at the jetty on under slicks and shrimp and crabs. birds on soft Trout are plastics. Redfish are good in the good under rafts of surf on live Arnoldo Gonzales , Jose Luis Garza shad on topwaters. bait and topwaters. (holding the redfish), Enrique, Juan Redfish are good in the Tarpon are good along Villarreal and Tony Pham were kayaking marsh on small topwaters. the beachfront. on in Texas City when they caught a 22-inch redfish on artificial bait. South Sabine Texas City Trout are fair to good under birds Trout are fair to good Send us your fishing photos! and pods of shad. Trout are good at the jetty on the reefs and in the channel on live Around La Porte knows how much you on live bait and topwaters. Trout are good at shrimp and croakers. Redfish and black love to fish. And maybe the only thing better than fishing is showing off your the nearshore rigs on live mullet. drum are fair to good in Moses Lake and catch. Dickinson Bayou on shrimp over reefs. We publish photos of readers with their Bolivar prized catch. Trout are good on the outgoing tide at Freeport Just email us the photo in jpeg format. Rollover Pass on soft plastics and mullet. Trout are good at San Luis Pass on Make sure it is at least 4 inches wide with 200 dots per inch (dpi). Redfish are good in the marsh with shrimp, topwaters and soft plastics. Include your first and last names, what higher tides on Gulps and finger mullet. Trout, redfish, sand trout and sheepshead kind of fish, where you caught it and what are good on live shrimp on the reefs in you used for bait. We’ll print as many pho- Christmas Bay. Bull redfish are good tos as we have room for. Trout are fair for drifters working pods along the beach on cracked crabs. Send photos to [email protected]. Happy fishing! of shad and mullet around the wells. Redfish are fair to good on live bait on East Matagorda Bay the north shoreline. Trout are good for drifters on live West Matagorda Bay shrimp over mid–bay reefs. Trout and Trout are fair over sand and grass East Galveston Bay redfish are good while wading mud on humps on soft plastics and topwaters. Trout are fair to good on the south croakers. Sand trout and croakers are Redfish and black drum are fair to good shoreline on topwaters and soft plastics. good over deep reefs on shrimp. at Shell Island on live shrimp.

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