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Re: Best eating In-shore fish [Re: Jpurdue] #13725544 10/09/20 08:54 PM
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Originally Posted by Jpurdue
So what's the consensus of the group? Is it true everything down there has worms regardless of size?


To quote my physiology Professor " All God's creations got worms "

I 've seen them in Large Mouth Bass and crappie also , so it is not just in salt water.

to the original question , Inshore , Flounder , spec trout, sheephead , redfish , , I have caught snapper and grouper near shore , but not in
Texas. So I will leave them off the list.


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Re: Best eating In-shore fish [Re: Jpurdue] #13725629 10/09/20 10:53 PM
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The worms make the filets just a little more tender and flaky when you fry them up.


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Re: Best eating In-shore fish [Re: Jpurdue] #13735757 10/19/20 01:34 PM
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I figured I owed y'all an update. I finally got to spend a good 5 hours fishing out there on Saturday. The wind was blowing a full gale. All I caught was about 25 tiny catfish which would eat my shrimp within about 1 minute of every cast. By tiny I mean these things were like 6"-8". I tried both dead shrimp and live shrimp on the bottom and under a cork. Any idea how to keep these danged catfish from biting? On the upside, I did catch my first ever blue crab.

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Re: Best eating In-shore fish [Re: Jpurdue] #13735762 10/19/20 01:39 PM
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Cute kids! To keep from catching hardhead catfish use lures. If bait, stick with live shrimp under a float (you will still catch some hardheads but a lot fewer than with dead shrimp fished on the bottom).

Re: Best eating In-shore fish [Re: Jpurdue] #13735769 10/19/20 01:47 PM
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If you keep you bait moving they won’t mess with it as much. If waters muddy they seem to come out in droves. Find some clean water.

Re: Best eating In-shore fish [Re: Jpurdue] #13735864 10/19/20 03:37 PM
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Had some fried shark Sunday, pretty darn good, just don't fry too long.

Re: Best eating In-shore fish [Re: JCG57] #13735872 10/19/20 03:43 PM
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Originally Posted by JCG57
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Is that a pompano in there? food


Why yes, yes it is. Will be a surprise treat within one of the bags of frozen spec filets.


I think that's a baby Jack Crevalle

Re: Best eating In-shore fish [Re: Jpurdue] #13735873 10/19/20 03:49 PM
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I'm from Florida and never fished any of the coastal waters of Texas ....do you have sand perch in Texas? These guys are great bait and excellent table fare.

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Re: Best eating In-shore fish [Re: Huckleberry] #13749870 10/30/20 11:10 PM
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We got Piggy Perch. Is that the same thing?

Re: Best eating In-shore fish [Re: David Welcher] #13749941 10/31/20 12:27 AM
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Originally Posted by David Welcher
Originally Posted by Kattelyn
Free line some live shrimp under a popping cork around those lights after dark. Cast to the edge of the light. Dead shrimp will catch hardheads.

I've caught hundreds of trout just like this.



You don't even need the live shrimp. Get a few spec rigs chart/white and glow white/pink and a 51 series mirror lure in chart/gold sides. Cast it past the light into the dark area and work it through. The spec rigs work slow and steady. The mirror lure you will have to experiment. Sometimes they like one one pop and stop and sometimes you can trigger a bite popping it very aggressively.

I used to live on Clear Lake and we had two lights on our property. Over a span of 8 years and thousands of trout, I narrowed it down to these two. No need to spend money on bait.

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Originally Posted by Jpurdue
I figured I owed y'all an update. I finally got to spend a good 5 hours fishing out there on Saturday. The wind was blowing a full gale. All I caught was about 25 tiny catfish which would eat my shrimp within about 1 minute of every cast. By tiny I mean these things were like 6"-8". I tried both dead shrimp and live shrimp on the bottom and under a cork. Any idea how to keep these danged catfish from biting? On the upside, I did catch my first ever blue crab.

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beautiful kids congrats y'all have a milkman

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