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This week's tips:
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Redfish and trout are being caught in the Green's Bayou area of West Matagorda
Bay. In Oyster Lake on a high tide, drifting with live shrimp or topwater lure
like Top Dogs or Excalibur Super Spooks should produce some redfish.
East Matagorda Bay - drifting over Cleveland Reef with live shrimp or soft plastics looks good. Map - http://www.matagorda-bay.com/maps/cleveland.html - Cleveland Reef is just out from Cleveland Bayou along the south shoreline of East Bay. Chinqapin Reefs look good, too. Map - http://www.matagorda-bay.com/maps/chinquapin.html
If the water temperature keeps coming up, it should be good fishing for redfish on Brown Cedar Flats ( http://www.matagorda-bay.com/maps/brncedarflats.html ) when the wind's out of the south / southeast.
The Diversion Channel might be a good starting point for redfish if it's windy...
Lures - Red eyes on lures imitate a mullet’s eyes and provide a big target. A three dimensional effect radiates when sunlight hits the plastic eyes. Red color can also be mistaken for a wound.
Red eyes provide the biggest contract and flash, especially when coupled with a glow, chartreuse or root beer soft plastic body.
Don't forget - the 27TH Annual Holder Fishing Show is going to be at George R. Brown Convention Center starting February 26 thru March 3, 2002!
Hope this helps ya'll!
Have a good time fishing and I'll see you next week,
Webmaster
http://www.matagorda-bay.com
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Weekly Fishing Report
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Thursday, 2/21/02
In West Matagorda Bay there were some trout and reds caught by wadefishermen
along the south shoreline on soft plastics. East Matagorda Bay produced several
nice stringers of trout for fishermen who drifted over scattered shell and oyster
reefs using soft plastics and live shrimp. Rawlings Bait Camp reports that trout,
whiting, drum and sheephead are being caught on live/dead shrimp at the pier
down at the beach.
Wednesday, 2/20/02
The weather was beautiful and there were a few fishermen going out, but we didn't
see any catches coming back in.
Tuesday, 2/19/02
We had drizzling rain off and on all day today and we couldn't find anyone who
went out fishing.
Monday, 2/18/02
There were a few redfish caught in the Diversion Channel. In East Matagorda
Bay there were some stringers of trout caught by wadefishermen using soft plastics
along the south shoreline.
Sunday, 2/17/02
Offshore fishing was great today with lots of red snapper being brought in.
Closer to home the Diversion Channel was producing plenty of redfish on live/dead
shrimp, and there were also flounder caught in the same location. In West Matagorda
Bay and in Oyster Lake fair amounts of redfish were also caught. Drifting over
scattered shell in the middle of East Matagorda Bay produced some nice trout.
In the river down around the jetties fishermen were catching sheephead and whiting.
Saturday, 2/16/02
Today produced redfish in Diversion Channel - sheephead and drum were being
caught on dead shrimp in the river down by Rawlings Bait Camp. East Bay produced
a fair amount of trout for wadefishermen down on the northeast end around Bird
Island. There was a report of an 8+ pound trout caught down there.
Friday, 2/15/02
Fishing slowed down a bit today -- there were some redfish caught in West Matagorda
Bay and the same for trout in East Matagorda Bay. There were reports of some
whiting being caught in the surf.
Thursday, 2/14/02
Good day of fishing today! In West Matagorda Bay the redfish were hot -- along
the south shoreline and in the Diversion Channel using live and artificial baits.
Lots of nice stringers of trout came out of East Matagorda Bay -- caught by
wadefishermen along the south shoreline -- using Corkys and other artificial
plastics.
Wednesday, 2/13/02
In East Matagorda Bay full stringers of nice-sized trout were caught by wadefishermen
who waded along the south shoreline. There were also trout caught in the Bird
Island area on the east end of East Matagorda Bay by drifting over scattered
shell.
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