Fishing spots in Texas
Every coastal fishery in our Texas guide, with species by season, launch towns and live conditions. Not in Texas? The live page ranks them by distance from you.
6 waters in Texas. Not in Texas? Fishing spots near me ranks them by distance from you.
- Lower Laguna Madre — Texas, NOAA station 8779770 (Port Isabel, TX). Species: Speckled Trout, Redfish (Red Drum), Black Drum, Snook, Sheepshead, Tarpon. Launch from South Padre Island, Port Isabel, Port Mansfield, Laguna Vista.
- Corpus Christi & Baffin Bay — Texas, NOAA station 8775870 (Bob Hall Pier, Corpus Christi, TX). Species: Speckled Trout, Redfish (Red Drum), Black Drum, Sheepshead, Spanish Mackerel, Tarpon. Launch from Corpus Christi, Flour Bluff, North Padre Island, Riviera.
- Rockport & Port Aransas — Texas, NOAA station 8774770 (Rockport, TX). Species: Speckled Trout, Redfish (Red Drum), Black Drum, Sheepshead, Southern Flounder, Tarpon. Launch from Rockport, Fulton, Port Aransas, Aransas Pass.
- Matagorda Bays — Texas, NOAA station 8773701 (Port O’Connor, Matagorda Bay, TX). Species: Speckled Trout, Redfish (Red Drum), Black Drum, Sheepshead, Tarpon, Spanish Mackerel. Launch from Port O’Connor, Palacios, Matagorda, Port Lavaca.
- Galveston Bay — Texas, NOAA station 8771450 (Galveston Pier 21, TX). Species: Speckled Trout, Redfish (Red Drum), Black Drum, Sheepshead, Southern Flounder, Spanish Mackerel. Launch from Galveston, Texas City, San Leon, Kemah.
- Sabine Lake — Texas, NOAA station 8770570 (Sabine Pass North, TX). Species: Speckled Trout, Redfish (Red Drum), Black Drum, Southern Flounder, Spanish Mackerel, Tarpon. Launch from Port Arthur, Sabine Pass, Bridge City, Orange.
What this page answers
This page answers: what's fishable around me? It reads your position once, in your browser, and ranks the coastal fisheries in the Tides & Tails location guide by distance — each with the species that hold there by season, the towns and launch areas inside the zone, and a link to its live tide and conditions page.
How results are ranked
Waters are ranked by straight-line distance from your position to the centre of each fishery in our catalog — the same 38 coastal zones the location guide covers, from the Texas border to Maryland plus California.
Distances are measured to the centre of each water as our catalog records it, not to a ramp or a pier. Live readings come from NOAA CO-OPS tide stations, the National Weather Service and Open-Meteo, fetched when you open the page — for recreation only, never for navigation.
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