Fantastic striper fishery at Lake Texoma, about 1.5 hr north of Dallas. It ain't salt, but the same stripers you fish for up there.

Freeport/Surfside are right at 4.75 hours from my house in N. Dallas. We like it there much better than Galveston. Better offshore and I think better surf fishing. Many reasonable hotels in Lake Jackson minutes from the water. As a bonus you get to stop at Buc-ees

Here are the list of some fish saltwater near by Dallas,
odysseypets
neptunescove
thefishgallery
theaquariumboutique
www.melevsreef.com/lfs.html‎

Galveston is great if you live in the Houston area, but if you are coming from anywhere else and you don't own a house down here, I'd go further South, even if it's Freeport.

Galveston bay is next to the 4th biggest city in America, so yeah it gets hit hard all the time.

Also the water keeps getting cleaner and prettier the farther south you go.

Galveston Bay is the closest by far, at 250 Mi, about 5 hrs to the island, quite a drive if you ask me.

Good Striper/Hybrid fishing right here around Dallas! PM me if you're interested.

I fish ray Hubbard a lot, were else has good striper/ hybrid? I also don't have a boat so pretty much be banking.

I also went to port a 4th of July week and caught these.

thanks for all the advice everyone...been doing some fishing at Joe Pool Lake and caught a small LMB the other week...any suggestions on where to catch some LMB near the DFW area?...been looking at Ray Roberts and Lewisville but I don't have a boat so would be bank fishing

I fish Joe Pool about every other week when I'm not at Texoma.
All these lakes have good fishing. Lots of good fishing in Oklahoma as well. There's more shoreline in the state of OK than CA.

Texoma is really something. It has some of the best natural production of striper in the U.S. The aesthetics of the lake with its all natural sand beaches will blow you away.