Im from Dallas and only third trip to salt....fished Sabine wth success twice before... Inlaws rented a beach house for the week so here we are. Launching at fat boys tomorrow and thinking of heading up to bayou vista to stay out of the north wind. Will we find em there?

work the entire shoreline from fatboys to the diversionary canal. also the rocks at N Deer Island and the reefs just south of N Deer, just south of that is confederate reef, always worth a shot on a rising tide. good luck.

Thx....really really surprised at the 2 1/2ft water everywhere except in the boat channels. Didn't catch a thing. The rocks at north deer island were still to far to cast to and I was already in 2ft of water??? I was expecting 6ft at least. Pretty stagnant tide activity around normal tide....heavy falling tide starting at 4 this afternoon and I have no clue where I'm going yet. Researching now

A bit further North just parallel with Moses lake, we caught nonstop yesterday. Boated 30 fish between the two of us, 5 or 6 specks, the rest good sized sand trout. Threw back some undersized specks.

Artificials working the drop-off made for not stop-hookups.

Boat near us landed a 15 - 17 lb triple tail at a channel marker.

Sorry you didn't have more success.

Thanks for the advice!! I seriously am very very surprised that there aren't any warning signs around all the super shallow areas in that bay!!!! Extremely dangerous water for the first timer. I took it really easy but had I not it could have been really bad. And less than two foot of water right in front of the public boat ramp near fat boys??? Reticulous!!! We came down early and have been staying in a hotel in La Marque so been fishing west bay but today we shift to a beach house her parents have rented for the week on the beach on E. Seaside drive and will obviously be on the other end of the island. I was thinking of trying to fish some rocks along the channel between the islands over there that I have spotted on google earth. A little worried about venturing too too far up north. Thinking we'll launch at the yacht club over there. Pretty frustrated so far but super appreciate the advice.....I may fish this afternoon. If she lets me. I bet I at least chunk something out into the surf even if it's tonight late.

Great evening hunt!! We launched at Galveston yacht basin and hauled it to the end of the east beach jetty...and just sat there til around 7:30.....we're catchihg small trout with ease on voodoo shrimp and she had live shrimp on a cork as well. Sheepshead were everywhere visibly but wouldn't hit my voodoo or hers....strange I thought. I ended up catching one down deeper on a dead shrimp and drifted out a little deeper towards the end there and caught the biggest and only bull red I've ever caught.....23lbs ....fun fun fight!! I'll post pics once I fugure out how to. End of the jetty In a 1988 skeeter fish and ski.....twas very calm today otherwise no way and I appreciated the opportunity. Maybe tomorrow afternoon will afford the same luck.