my dad and i are planning to get some redfsh on the fly. Where is the best place to go? what time of the year is the best?
We were thinking of going in the spring.
thanks
-patrick

No other then Louisiana! Monster fish all willing to take a fly!

I think fall is the best time for reds in Texas....but really any time you can go is a good time. We have one of the world's greatest flats area down on the Laguna Madre and it can be great for shallow water reds....but if I had to pick the very best place I know of it would be the Indian River out of Titusville Florida. Year around outstanding red fish on the fly with shots at really large fish.

Oh I have to agree with the above statement, I posted real quick and logged off without fully getting into what I wanted to say. If you are looking to go and have a great time and catch your first redfish on fly, you can't beat the LM. You stay in Texas and you can find some pretty good deals on hotels if you look or just camp out.

http://www.packtx.org/

check out these guys.

i will deffinitly check this out!
thanks guys!

Ding Ding ding! We have a winner! Indian River Lagoon, Mosquito Lagoon, and Banana River! True treasures and much prettier than Louisiana...plus thirty and forty pound fish on the flats year round...

Here is one place and time to consider. Just wow! at about 7 min mark.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vw2oJOXJvp4

Posting a video like that when I'm stuck in Amarillo in a hotel is just cruel and unusual punishment.

Yep, true treasures. No place for reds quite like it.....just a long ways from home.

My folks live in Vero Beach so I get to pop in every once in a while for the action.

I hope those redfish didnt hurt the boat!
thats amazing.. no words can describe it.
They are schooling like sandbass on a summer morning!

what type of baitfish where they destroying?
i couldnt really see any baitfish in the pic

I have avoided the Saltwater Fly Fishing forum for a long time because I feel like I don't want to get bit by this bug.

Looks like I've got some problems now.

now that i think about it the guides in Destin, Florida say the reds are eating like crazy in the fall right off the beaches

I've got to give it to Louisiana. I've fished there with Capt. Bryan Carter and have seen some great water - filled with fish ready to boost confidence levels beyond rational levels. In the total of about 10 days I've spent on the water there over the last 3 years, I've seen one boat that was fishing. It's close and cheap, too.

However, wade fishing for tailing reds on the Texas flats always gets me excited.

The redfish do that here too, the big bulls get right up in the surf and can really provide some crazy action if you get into them. However last year the red tide arrived perfectly timed to mess most of that time period up. Woo.

http://www.texaskayakfisherman.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=130706&start=0

you mean like that... darn redtide shut down a lot of fishing for us, we lost the bull red and flounder run plus half of tarpon season.

for your first trip i would highly recommend just staying in texas. the fish aren't as big lots of 15-25" fish with the occasional fish pushing 30". but anywhwere from port oconner to port isabel is pretty good. you'll have the opportunity to cast to on average a dozen fish a day.
take a look for capt tom horbey out of port o'conner he's pretty good.

scott sommerlatte can take you out in seadrift

^I've gone twice with Scott and I highly recommend him if you wish to stay in Texas. But you did ask for the best place, so I'd personally go for Louisiana or Florida