here's my 2 cents, on any bay waters in the south , just keep your kayak or boat in the 5 foot dept and cast ahead of you keeping your lure in the 4 to 6 ft of water and you will catch trout, the secret dept for trout is 5 foot with a grassy bottom, top water bait until 9.00am then switch to a swim bait untill 11,00am then when the sun at it's peak position, switch to a small shrimp bait and work the bottom grass area, I have been doing this for the last 10 years and have never been skunked on trout. the slim shady 2.0 is a very good bait for your swim bait and for top water I like any kind of popper plug, light colors in day light and dark colors on overcast or dark days, on the swim bait, use 1/4 once or 3/8 so you will keep it in the grass to alert the fish and wake them up when fishing the bottom in bright sunny days. It took me 3 years of fishing for trout until I learn that the trout really like 5 ft water, at night the bigger gator trout will hunt for food right on the bank in 1 ft of water so if you get on the water around 4-5 am stay about 100 ft from the shore line and cast to the bank and you may catch you a big gator trout., it easier in a kayak, because most of the time you will be setting in 3-4 foot when casting to the bank or shore line.
I feel like this is much more relative to SC and South. NC is just way colder, and much different habitats. Are flats don't warm up at all in winter here dec-feb. Inshore fishing turns off and we have to chase them back in the creeks and you end up having to fish a super large range and don't get to fish your familiar summer/fall spots
I’ve been taking a lot of y’all’s advice and I can say that I’ve consistently caught more fish almost every single time I go fishing thank y’all for the knowledge I joined when I didn’t know how to use lures and now all I really use is lures and have a better idea of where to fish and when to do so no more bait I’m in Rockport tx and latley I’ve been going on the piers with trout lights and using a white paddle tail I have been killing the trout most in a night just for me was 20 fish not all of them were big but I had a hell of a time about to try hardbaits soon I feel as if I’ve gotten the jighead down and it’s about time to learn something else
I need a trolling motor for my kayak. Then I could actually troll. I don't have any luck dragging lures while I paddle other than snagging a big cownose ray about 30" across. I was the one who got dragged for a while 😂.
Another great video! Was wondering how to build a fishing log since that is a great way to keep track and have a reference for future years. I assume you access it from smart spots but cannot figure out how. Thanks for your help
Not a guide or commercial fisherman just a senior who has spent much of his life fishing galveston bay and the nearby back bays. First point, trout love moving water. So heading to the bay I check two things. One is wind. If the surf is higher than three feet fishing for trout is far more difficult. Second is tides. You want a major shift height between high and low tides. Sometimes it's mere inches and other times a foot or more. Some days you have a singe tide while on other days you may have two highs and two lows. Tide going in or out determines where you should fish. You always want to fish the down current side of structure as bait gets washed out of the structure and the fish are staged below it to catch the foods that drift their way. On days between tides I tend to fish by smell. I find a long shore that has the wind blowing across it in my direction. Then sailing parallel to the cost a quarter to half mile away I smell the air as I go. If I catch a hint of watermelon I stop and turn toward the shore watching for feeding slicks. I've also caught some good specs in flood gate areas with a fast moving tide where the water had formed an eddy going in the opposite direction next to the bank. Good trout there picking up shrimp and fish that escape the current off to the sides. Baits. Everything will work to some degree. I normally use live shrimp because it will catch a wide range of fish along with trout. Lures, I favor white spec rigs or silver lures depending on water conditions. Small trout will hit live green mollies before taking a live shrimp. They will also hit a brown shrimp over a white shrimp when given the choice. I've never had any success catching specs on cut bait with the exception of cut ribbon fish at night under a full moon which resulted in the largest trout that I've ever caught. Live fingerling mullet also make a good trout bait. Unfortunately the last few years I no longer feel it's worth a three hour drive to only be allowed specs in a specific slot size and a limit of five fish. Last note, sand trout. First they strike and run straight at you so you can tell one by a strike and then the line going slack. Cut the first one up and use it for cut bait as I've never found another bait they like better. No limits and they are good eating. Don't do a hard hook set as they have a fairly soft mouth. They can be frozen and still remain good eating but don't allow them to stay frozen for long periods of time. Always chill them down as soon as your catch them and filet and skin before freezing. Seasoned cornmeal in peanut oil for best taste.
You do a great job making fishing simple and successful. A minor suggestion, I suggest a background in the videos that accomplishes the same, A background full of rods makes it look like one needs many rods for fishing whereas the reality is the opposite.
No #1? A moving tide! Yet the biggest trout I've ever caught was a slack ride in a 20' deep cut, using a Triple Chance Spoon at the San Luis Pass Flats Bayside just spoon jigging on a tight line with an extra heavy 6'6" casting rod! Ripping it up and letting it fall on a tight line! Any time the line stopped or slacked I set the hook! In winter time it's got have a mud bottom, it holds the heat longer at night and warms the quickest! In warm water a moving tide! A cut in flats especially on an incoming tide, the Trout will stack up in the eddy caused by the tide moving across the cut and roll as it moves into the shallow flats! Trout can rest in the eddy using very little energy holding a spot as mullet pods swim over them into the faster moving water as the tide is compressed by shallower bottom, I've watched the trout ease out into the flats paralleling the mullet pod, moving at the same speed but slowly getting closer to the feeding mullet drifting in the tide! Mullet has a V tails built for straight speed! Trout have paddle tails, built for maneuvering! Once they are alongside the pods, the trout will snap a 90 into the middle of the pod in two feet of water, the mullet only a few choices, burst forward? Or jump up in the air or turn? The turning is their Achilles! Losing speed and almost always being hit by a Trout or one of the many swimming in their Wolf Packs! Larger females seem to hang by themselves or a couple of three? But I've seen them hunt in open water this way! It's mostly 2-3 lb males! The H&H Paddle Tail Touts are deadly and cheap! And a Johnson Silver Minnow 1/2-3/4 oz But my favorite way of catching big Trout are a top waters! The old Rebel Jumpin Minnows! Not the Pradco plastic wrapped ones! Are deadly in moving or slack tides! The old Rebels have a deeper knocking sound when walking the Dog! Also the older Cotton Cordell Redfins & Broken Backs the wobble in the bait & that slow snake like swim in the broken backs are deadly in shallow especially in the mud back bays with eel grass! Color silver & black or Blue! And Bone! But if you fish any of these lures in silver? Eventually the fish will knockoff the silver plating and y'all will soon have a bone color lure! So don't go buying one! And don't fish lures with a plastic covering! They don't produce as well! I think fish have a polarized lens and it just looks black to them? Like when you look at a watch with a plastic lens instead of glass with polarized sunglasses on! At night it doesn't matter! You want a dark lure even at night the stars & moonlight is enough light for a hunting fish looking up to see movement on the waters surface! And wading an area will always out produce fishing from a kayak or boat! It's just quieter and a more thorough way of fishing an area and it allows you to find oyster patches, you won't see another way! With a handheld GPS you mark it! And remember the Large Trout are all Females! The next Generation future! All should be CPR! Killing a Fish that might be older than 5-7 years old? Won't make your Johnson any longer! No what your wife tells you! Keeping a few fish in the 16"-24" range are good table fare! Two trout will feed 4-6 people depending how well a person can fillet a trout! Fishing is a great sport & exercise especially wading! But catching and releasing is the therapeutic part of fishing! Not the killing! CPR! No matter what books or Channels you view? Or receive information from! Practical application is still the best teacher! I joined GCCA back in the 80's and only fished saltwater with live bait! Until a member told me you can catch a fish on a Pink Kelley's Wiggler with white dipped tail! I thought bullshit! Until I caught a flounder on one! Never stood in line waiting for live shrimp after that! I was wade fishing while they were still in line! TMI! But only fishing can you really understand the changes in the environment especially by over building in coastal areas! It's sad to see the changes I've seen here in the Galveston Area in the last 40+ years! But money talks! And the property taxes on million dollar second homes! That public has to bail out after a Hurricane! Go Figure?
Luke, there is something on your right eyelid. If it is not something just stuck in the lashes, you might want to get it checked out. Thanks again for great stuff!!
Just got off the water wrangling stud trout. Once you find them its game on. Paddle tails and shrimp around grass. 4-8 feet One winter I caught 98 of them. Couldn't get the last two as my car was about to get locked in the park.
Hey guys, are we seeing high or low tide on the maps, and how recent are the maps? I'm a lifer member, use the app, and realize there is a 'tides' feature, but as it applies to the satellite images, how do I know what I'm seeing?
I been fishing trout about 5 years and can validate what i call "spotted bottom in 3 to 6 ft and S_L_O-W down in colder weather and Procure (sent) adds fish on a slow bite or a tap tap bite. I usually get a limit and able to help by buddies.
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here's my 2 cents, on any bay waters in the south , just keep your kayak or boat in the 5 foot dept and cast ahead of you keeping your lure in the 4 to 6 ft of water and you will catch trout, the secret dept for trout is 5 foot with a grassy bottom, top water bait until 9.00am then switch to a swim bait untill 11,00am then when the sun at it's peak position, switch to a small shrimp bait and work the bottom grass area, I have been doing this for the last 10 years and have never been skunked on trout. the slim shady 2.0 is a very good bait for your swim bait and for top water I like any kind of popper plug, light colors in day light and dark colors on overcast or dark days, on the swim bait, use 1/4 once or 3/8 so you will keep it in the grass to alert the fish and wake them up when fishing the bottom in bright sunny days. It took me 3 years of fishing for trout until I learn that the trout really like 5 ft water, at night the bigger gator trout will hunt for food right on the bank in 1 ft of water so if you get on the water around 4-5 am stay about 100 ft from the shore line and cast to the bank and you may catch you a big gator trout., it easier in a kayak, because most of the time you will be setting in 3-4 foot when casting to the bank or shore line.
I feel like this is much more relative to SC and South. NC is just way colder, and much different habitats. Are flats don't warm up at all in winter here dec-feb. Inshore fishing turns off and we have to chase them back in the creeks and you end up having to fish a super large range and don't get to fish your familiar summer/fall spots
I’ve been taking a lot of y’all’s advice and I can say that I’ve consistently caught more fish almost every single time I go fishing thank y’all for the knowledge I joined when I didn’t know how to use lures and now all I really use is lures and have a better idea of where to fish and when to do so no more bait I’m in Rockport tx and latley I’ve been going on the piers with trout lights and using a white paddle tail I have been killing the trout most in a night just for me was 20 fish not all of them were big but I had a hell of a time about to try hardbaits soon I feel as if I’ve gotten the jighead down and it’s about time to learn something else
Thanks guys. Living in the Carolina upstate and only getting to the coast a couple of times a year I need all the help I can get.
I need a trolling motor for my kayak. Then I could actually troll. I don't have any luck dragging lures while I paddle other than snagging a big cownose ray about 30" across. I was the one who got dragged for a while 😂.
Another great video! Was wondering how to build a fishing log since that is a great way to keep track and have a reference for future years. I assume you access it from smart spots but cannot figure out how. Thanks for your help
As we move into winter you should be targeting mud flats that hold heat. Also down size to ned rigs and fish slow.
Not a guide or commercial fisherman just a senior who has spent much of his life fishing galveston bay and the nearby back bays. First point, trout love moving water. So heading to the bay I check two things. One is wind. If the surf is higher than three feet fishing for trout is far more difficult. Second is tides. You want a major shift height between high and low tides. Sometimes it's mere inches and other times a foot or more. Some days you have a singe tide while on other days you may have two highs and two lows. Tide going in or out determines where you should fish. You always want to fish the down current side of structure as bait gets washed out of the structure and the fish are staged below it to catch the foods that drift their way. On days between tides I tend to fish by smell. I find a long shore that has the wind blowing across it in my direction. Then sailing parallel to the cost a quarter to half mile away I smell the air as I go. If I catch a hint of watermelon I stop and turn toward the shore watching for feeding slicks. I've also caught some good specs in flood gate areas with a fast moving tide where the water had formed an eddy going in the opposite direction next to the bank. Good trout there picking up shrimp and fish that escape the current off to the sides.
Baits. Everything will work to some degree. I normally use live shrimp because it will catch a wide range of fish along with trout. Lures, I favor white spec rigs or silver lures depending on water conditions. Small trout will hit live green mollies before taking a live shrimp. They will also hit a brown shrimp over a white shrimp when given the choice. I've never had any success catching specs on cut bait with the exception of cut ribbon fish at night under a full moon which resulted in the largest trout that I've ever caught. Live fingerling mullet also make a good trout bait. Unfortunately the last few years I no longer feel it's worth a three hour drive to only be allowed specs in a specific slot size and a limit of five fish.
Last note, sand trout. First they strike and run straight at you so you can tell one by a strike and then the line going slack. Cut the first one up and use it for cut bait as I've never found another bait they like better. No limits and they are good eating. Don't do a hard hook set as they have a fairly soft mouth. They can be frozen and still remain good eating but don't allow them to stay frozen for long periods of time. Always chill them down as soon as your catch them and filet and skin before freezing. Seasoned cornmeal in peanut oil for best taste.
+1 for similar video for red fish
You do a great job making fishing simple and successful. A minor suggestion, I suggest a background in the videos that accomplishes the same, A background full of rods makes it look like one needs many rods for fishing whereas the reality is the opposite.
No #1? A moving tide! Yet the biggest trout I've ever caught was a slack ride in a 20' deep cut, using a Triple Chance Spoon at the San Luis Pass Flats Bayside just spoon jigging on a tight line with an extra heavy 6'6" casting rod! Ripping it up and letting it fall on a tight line! Any time the line stopped or slacked I set the hook!
In winter time it's got have a mud bottom, it holds the heat longer at night and warms the quickest!
In warm water a moving tide! A cut in flats especially on an incoming tide, the Trout will stack up in the eddy caused by the tide moving across the cut and roll as it moves into the shallow flats! Trout can rest in the eddy using very little energy holding a spot as mullet pods swim over them into the faster moving water as the tide is compressed by shallower bottom, I've watched the trout ease out into the flats paralleling the mullet pod, moving at the same speed but slowly getting closer to the feeding mullet drifting in the tide! Mullet has a V tails built for straight speed! Trout have paddle tails, built for maneuvering! Once they are alongside the pods, the trout will snap a 90 into the middle of the pod in two feet of water, the mullet only a few choices, burst forward? Or jump up in the air or turn? The turning is their Achilles! Losing speed and almost always being hit by a Trout or one of the many swimming in their Wolf Packs! Larger females seem to hang by themselves or a couple of three? But I've seen them hunt in open water this way! It's mostly 2-3 lb males! The H&H Paddle Tail Touts are deadly and cheap! And a Johnson Silver Minnow 1/2-3/4 oz But my favorite way of catching big Trout are a top waters! The old Rebel Jumpin Minnows! Not the Pradco plastic wrapped ones! Are deadly in moving or slack tides! The old Rebels have a deeper knocking sound when walking the Dog! Also the older Cotton Cordell Redfins & Broken Backs the wobble in the bait & that slow snake like swim in the broken backs are deadly in shallow especially in the mud back bays with eel grass! Color silver & black or Blue! And Bone! But if you fish any of these lures in silver? Eventually the fish will knockoff the silver plating and y'all will soon have a bone color lure! So don't go buying one! And don't fish lures with a plastic covering! They don't produce as well! I think fish have a polarized lens and it just looks black to them? Like when you look at a watch with a plastic lens instead of glass with polarized sunglasses on! At night it doesn't matter! You want a dark lure even at night the stars & moonlight is enough light for a hunting fish looking up to see movement on the waters surface! And wading an area will always out produce fishing from a kayak or boat! It's just quieter and a more thorough way of fishing an area and it allows you to find oyster patches, you won't see another way! With a handheld GPS you mark it! And remember the Large Trout are all Females! The next Generation future! All should be CPR! Killing a Fish that might be older than 5-7 years old? Won't make your Johnson any longer! No what your wife tells you! Keeping a few fish in the 16"-24" range are good table fare! Two trout will feed 4-6 people depending how well a person can fillet a trout! Fishing is a great sport & exercise especially wading! But catching and releasing is the therapeutic part of fishing! Not the killing! CPR! No matter what books or Channels you view? Or receive information from! Practical application is still the best teacher!
I joined GCCA back in the 80's and only fished saltwater with live bait! Until a member told me you can catch a fish on a Pink Kelley's Wiggler with white dipped tail! I thought bullshit! Until I caught a flounder on one! Never stood in line waiting for live shrimp after that! I was wade fishing while they were still in line! TMI! But only fishing can you really understand the changes in the environment especially by over building in coastal areas! It's sad to see the changes I've seen here in the Galveston Area in the last 40+ years! But money talks! And the property taxes on million dollar second homes! That public has to bail out after a Hurricane! Go Figure?
Great video thanks guys.
Luke, there is something on your right eyelid. If it is not something just stuck in the lashes, you might want to get it checked out. Thanks again for great stuff!!
Just got off the water wrangling stud trout. Once you find them its game on. Paddle tails and shrimp around grass. 4-8 feet One winter I caught 98 of them. Couldn't get the last two as my car was about to get locked in the park.
Hey guys, are we seeing high or low tide on the maps, and how recent are the maps? I'm a lifer member, use the app, and realize there is a 'tides' feature, but as it applies to the satellite images, how do I know what I'm seeing?
You guys rock!
This is good info but definitely regional specific to SW FL
And, keep the Dr Juice on it too!
Funny how I immediately read “lure” instead of “rule”
I been fishing trout about 5 years and can validate what i call "spotted bottom in 3 to 6 ft and S_L_O-W down in colder weather and Procure (sent) adds fish on a slow bite or a tap tap bite. I usually get a limit and able to help by buddies.
Trout is the easiest fish to catch. I catch them on almost anything
Channel has gone to nothing but trying for sales.