Going to spend a week down there trying to fish off the beach, mostly on Mustang Island. If all else fails plan B is to fish from the pier at Channelview. I'll try to see if I can update about conditions and fish reports.

I fished Channelview this time last year. Lots of rocks and specks under the lights. We were catching small bonnetheads on live shrimp under a popping cork during the day. I heard that there were redfish around early on in the day, but I was regrettably sleeping. If you will, please tell us about your trip. After I had enough of Channelview last year, I fished the Caldwell and wound up catching a lot of redfish, specks, small black drum, and a few sharks. There were lots of skipjacks last year, and I would have been much smarter to throw a hunk of skipjack off the end last year and go after big sharks. The specks and reds should be there, but if the ladyfish are there, catch a few and go to the end. Guys were catching lots of 5-7 foot blacktips at the end. I was catching the reds on split-shot rigged live shrimp directly underneath the bridge, and the specks were a little higher in the water column a little further out in the lights. Lots of rats, but several keeper reds too. Good luck. Sorry for the novel lol

Well this week started out rough. Lots of weed and wind in the surf. Fished off the pier Saturday evening with fishbites, trying to catch bait for the surf. Caught a lot of croaker with that as well as the usual garbage fish, hardheads, toadfish, etc. There were small specs caught off of live shrimp, and one bull red (29.5") and a flounder caught by someone else. Sunday was more of the same. Tried to put a rod in the surf and got weeded out immediately, couldn't even get the spider weight to hook up. Front came through, it was chilly, better to stay indoors and wait it out. Monday was still chilly, but the wind seemed to die down some, so we got some live shrimp and tried the pier again. The wife caught a flounder and some undersized specs, I caught sand trout, hardheads and a couple of undersized specs. Tuesday the wind died down and the temps picked up a bit so we checked headed down towards fish pass jetties to see what the water looked like. The wind was coming from the north and there wasn't a bit of weed in the surf, but the water was muddy. Hit the pier again with live shrimp and was catching small specs and sandies, but the bite turned off as soon as the tide started changing. This morning went out near fish pass on the beach around 9:00, picked a spot and very quickly had two nice slot redfish. Mine was 26" and the wife's was 27". I caught mine on fishbites of all things, while trying to catch bait. Hers was caught on a live 7" croaker. The bite turned off by 10-10:30 and the wind shifted and the weed started coming back in. We packed up and will probably check it out again this afternoon and see if there is a spot without weeds.

Sorry this is long winded, I get excited about this stuff when I get to do it :-)