The wife and i are kayaking the hill country this week but next weekend we are taking the fam to the coast and i want to try my hand at redfishing. Being primarily a LMB fisher i think my skills should translate pretty well but i am clueless when it comes to baits and habitat. We will be staying on the beach nar Port A but less than a mile away from the shamrock cove are. I appreciate any tips.

Haven't fished Shamrock. If you cross the ferry , you will have B&R on your left, and Light house Lakes on your right. Lots of good fishing on either side of the causeway. Your LMB equipment will work just fine. I prefer 1/16 or 1/8 oz. o jig heads. (I use only artificial) they will also work with a popping cork using plastic or shrimp. Good luck.

I'm fishing there this coming weekend also.

Just as B737 said, you should take a ride on the ferry over to Aransas Pass and fish the lighthouse lakes and B&R flats. Reds should be cruising the flats and marshes looking for mullet, crabs and shrimp, so my favorite lures for there are Zara Spook Jr (color: bone white), 1/16 jig head with Saltwater Assassin (color: chicken on a chain) and then a DOA glow shrimp under a popping cork. You should be able to find some decent fish, just make sure you watch those tides and done get stuck in the lighthouse lakes.

Hope this helps
-Moondog

We just had a thread a few weeks ago on a similar topic,

http://texasfishingforum.com/forums/ubbthreads.php/topics/10918824/Re:_Salt_Advice#Post10918824

I got a report in the inshore section from someone on my post there.

I fish there a couple times a year, this will my first kayak trip. i'm going to hit it out of Wilsons cut & light house. Prob Packery flats also. I look at it like this, I'll have a rod rigged with a popping cork and khale hook for shrimp, a spinning rod with a 1/8 or 1/4 oz jig head for either plastic or a shrimp for sight casting, a rod for free lining a mullet or piggie perch, a rod rigged with a slip sinker rig for cut or live mullet, a rod rigged with a 1/8 or 1/16oz jig head with a plastic or if its grassy a weedless weighted, and a rod rigged for plugs mainly top water. That about covers it for me.

I appreciate all the advice, i have a couple of those baits and a couple of those are gobbledygook to me so i will see what happens in the morning.

This is the result of today's excursion.

In the past I've had good luck on lead head jigs rigged with Gulp Shrimp. Of course I had to put up with the occasional flounder and trout catches as well.