Nice selection of coordinates. You are the most helpful person on the board. You also shared with me your directions for a oxygen tank aeration system a while back.
I fish Matorgorda Bay but have not found enough fish worthy of any special GPS coordinates other than those on Hotspot, etc. For my education, what is the # sign for? I assume all the coordinates are in the following format: xx xx.xx with no space separating the next series. Some of them seem to have 4 digits at the beginning. I will take a stab at some of these if I ever get to Galveston area. I need to learn the best tide and time of year for selected spots.
johnd, thanks for posting up. I know where 80% of these are so they are not secret. Since my GPS died a few weeks ago, this will help in updating my new GPS. Since I don't get down to the SLP/Bastop/Christmas area too much these will help out if we venture into the area.
Thanks for the info, Johnd!!! I don't know if I will use it. You just sent me info on building or repairing my greenlight a couple weeks ago. This board is a great board. I enjoy it. I guess a guide on the board rubbed you the wrong way. I would like to read what he said. I'll look for it. Anything I can help with, let me know. I service computers.
Sorry, this does not look like what I posted. What I thought I posted was neat and in order. I have 250 GPS points. Once I figure out how to make it right I will post them. During this try the pop-up said it had to many characters and I thought I deleted it. Guess not.
here is a link to the same spots a little neater... I just happen to run across these both at the same time LOL!! after real quick sample it appears to be the same list
Me and my dad fished frenchys reef back in the mid to late 80's, and did very well in the fall for reds and sand trout. I had heard they removed Frenchy in the early 90's, does anyone know this to be true. We haven't fished it in years.
Me and my dad fished frenchys reef back in the mid to late 80's, and did very well in the fall for reds and sand trout. I had heard they removed Frenchy in the early 90's, does anyone know this to be true. We haven't fished it in years.
Speaking of "H" reefs, there is a reef in east bay not too many people know about. It is called Hanna's reef. I hear trout are biting good over there right now on banjo minnows and helicopter lures.
I know a lot of those spots, have them saved on my phone app. Will check out the rest. I've entered coordinates before on the upper LLM, into my phone, leaving them public. People come behind me and delete them....
Back in the day, my dad would head out in the fall in east bay. Foggy as heck, just a flasher (that hardly ever worked) and wind up exactly where he wanted to be. I'd a been going in circles...and shooting flares....
There are maps at every grocery, tackle, and gas station here in Aransas County for this kind of thing. Doesn't put anyone on fish, but it certainly will tell you where your boat can and can't go and where you might be able to wade. Better a map/GPS than people just putt-putting around the bay making noise, rutting up seagrass and crashing into reefs.
I don't see whats so special about that list of spots. All of those plus many more are already shown and listed on the latest version of Hook-n-Line Boat Fishing Map. I suggest anyone wanting this info get a map so you can see exactly where the coordinates will lead you to.
Also, be cautious about the list in johnd's post and the one that Joe Cranton posted. I checked a couple that didn't look right and there are some transposed numbers. One that comes to mind is Cow Shed Reef. Hook-n-Line shows it correctly.
Also, be careful about hanging out with that guy Joe Cranton. He's been known to associate with several shady characters. For that matter, also watch out for John Kerwin. If rubbed the wrong way he's liable to pull your arse out through your throat just for fun.:fish:
For that matter, also watch out for John Kerwin. If rubbed the wrong way he's liable to pull your arse out through your throat just for fun.:fish:[/QUOTE]
LOL! Just how big o boy are ya! Im gonna have to open a 55 gallon drum of whooparse on ya! LOL!
We will be fishing with plastics from the boat. Depending on the temperature we may throw Tops before we leave the canal.
Take 61st street to the Seawall. Turn right on the Seawall and go 6.4 mile to Pabst Rd. Right on Pabst to the stop sign on Stewart. Go through the stop sign into Spanish Grant to the next stop sign.
I'm curious to know where you got the Flounder in my area. We used to catch them in the front of the canal when it comes out into Starvation from Spanish grant.
One cold front this week will cause the coves to turn on. The water temps need to be in the low 50's before the fish move out into the mid bay. The bigger trout will stay in the Coves. I'm still waiting on Dana's to turn on. Last year at the end of November I was freezing and we limited with the smallest Trout was about 23". We also had about three Flounder. My experience in Dana's is if the big Trout are in the cove the Redfish will not be there and vise-verse.
To answer your question; the coves will improve with the dropping temps until the water temps drop below 55 degrees. The big Trout will stack-up into the deeper area's of the coves which could be only on foot difference. I learned that fishing Dana's in the winter. The cold does not seem to bother the Reds. The Flounder will stack-up in the mouths of the coves where it may be deeper or the mouth of marsh channels that dump into the coves. If your fishing for Flounder, in lets say Offats I fish the drop-offs to 20' from the shoreline and close to the docks leading to deeper water. This time of year the flounder will stack up in a cove in Offats. This very small cove is 16' deep and it is where the A&M sailing school keeps their little sail boats. This last year they built a dock in the cove for the big sail boats which have been anchored in there as long as I can remember.
I am all over offats Bayou. The wade fishing is all around the runway light pier. If you go down 99st I believe you stay to the left until you get to the subdivision that surrounds the turn basin. Then you stay to the right. You will cross a little bridge where the golf course dumps into the turn basin. The golf course will be on your right. If you were to continue to the end of the road it will dead end and then you can take a right and it takes you to where the road ends and then you have sand that you can drive on. A lot of kayakers and waders put in here. I very seldom wade. I am usualy in a boat and will fish from 61st, Moody Gardens and all the way to the last reef at the mouth of Offats.
The wife and I mostly catch and release until winter. Winter is the time of year when when you haul as much meat to the house as possible. I catch alot of fish from October to January. This allows me to have numerous fish fry's on the block and at work. I live in Spanish Grant. The fishing is outstanding at times just off my dock. Sunday while waiting for my fishing bud I caught an 18" Trout and a 17" Flounder. My brother will come down on the weekends and stay out there all night fishing. A high in coming tide is best. I will catch at least one five pound trout a month using top-waters. That is fishing every evening before dark. After dark they will not touch a top-water. Offats is one of my best spots in the Summer for Pot-licking. There is a lot of Flouder in Offats. Sunday we fished in front of the house North of the runway lights and did not do well. There is a 6' gut in front of the houses and it come up quickly to three feet. The three foot flat runs all the way over to the main channel. Come October the Flounder will stack up on that flat.
Here is a John ? post I had from past years.
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