I wouldn't even let my baby get close enough to sniff the salty air!!!!

I would be more worried about the trailer than the boat

hear me now and you will know later... Don't do it. I have and 3 trailers later you get the idea.

No! I'm from there and I laugh anytime I see a bass boat in the bay. Biggest problem is they get stuck to easy, the average depth in the Laguna Madre is 1.5'. Just get a guide and smoke em', most of the fish I catch are in extremely shallow places!

I've never been to the texas coast, but I took a cruiser I once owned to the salt. several times. Had no Ill effects. I just washed and flushed it when I got back. I wouldn't take my bass boat out there because of the heavy seas. There was always ten and twelve foot swells. Bass boat sits too low in the water for that.

I did it once. Won't do it again.

The real problem would be do you know the bay . Hate to here you got stuck on oyster bar and scratched the hec out of your nice rig. As far as the boat being trashed after splashing down in it . It would be fine. As long as you wash everything down. But I've always made sure every screw and nut on any boat I put in salt is stainless steel. People have been bass fishing brackish water out of bass boats for yrs. And yes its hard on them. You gotta wash them and run fresh water threw motor .

nope - bad idea.

Won't be bad on the boat if you flush and keep electrical connections sprayed BEFORE and after exposure. Like said before the trailer suffers. My 90's model Ranger saw plenty of exposure as I launched in salt water several times and in brackish water a lot. Replaced board bolts and Ospho treated bolt holes then painted it WELL before selling it. It was exposed for 10 years. In between these dunks though it would get Rayburn and TB dunks. Some of the bolts had to be chiseled, ground, or cut off because of rust. I went back with stainless. I thought it had held up well considering how much it was exposed . Don't think Skeeter trailers are as quality as Ranger Trail trailers though.

I wouldnt do it!

I've been doing it all my life, brackish and straight salt.

I normally launch in brackish when i'm going to a straight salt area though.

CorroseX(or however it's spelled) is your friend.

Flush Motor trailer etc with fresh water, pull the cowl off and hose it down with corrose X.

Never had an issue, nor do all my padna's i run with.

An alum or galv trailer will be your friend if you plan on doing it alot.

One trip wont kill a regualar trailer as long as you clean it good.

My boats are very nice, if you didn't know I make at least 20 trips a year in brackish or salt you couldn't tell.

Just hire you a guide for 1/2 day, while your on your trip with him, he will give you pointers on where to go wade fishing, if it was summer, id say just wade out in the surf. Some awesome fishing out past the 2nd gut or 3rd sand bar. Throw you something like a spoon, and or a small white grub, and take you some cheap pliers as they will rust up on you, wash everything down with fresh water each day. I spent many summer vacations down their with the family catching huge trout in the surf. Take the kids to one of the piers at night and get some shrimp and some popping corks, they'll have a blast. My boys would make me stay out there till 3 and 4 in the morning, then i'd be up at daylight in the surf till 10, come in and eat and crash and do it all over again in the evening.

Not a chance.