Fall fishing on the Middle Texas Coast means many things to me but the thing that stands out in my mind is Abundance of fish! My answer to the question ‘What’s your favorite time of year to fish?’ has not changed and continues to be the Fall! Abundance in the amount of bait, the number of anglers and certainly the number and variety of fish! Keeper fish in fact! Looking back at my logs, I can prove why this is the time of year that we have the best, most and biggest keeper Speckled Trout, Redfish, Black Drum and Flounder.
Fall is for back to school and back to sports and generally back to the reality that you may be ‘too busy to go fishing’ so I am giving you a kitchen pass and I urge you to make it happen, shoot just try it…say ‘honey! I gotta go fishin’…she will probably approve to get you out and then sprint to the shops! But hey, some of my most consistent anglers are women so maybe they will be hollerin’ at you that they are going fishin’. Which ever it is the point is, meet me in the office, my 22’ TranSport!
So many demands on our time and so little time to fish is what I hear from the folks that come to visit us for a day on the water. The thing is the best days are right around the corner and with help from Mother Nature the water will be cooling down soon and we should be enjoying rising tides with the September tropics and the October moon. The fish seem more active and alive with this change and so are the anglers. More water flowing in, more oxygen in the water and the promise of shorter days giving way to more recovery time under the darkness of night all combine into the perfect home for a game fish. Think about it, you will get more sleep and rest too! The thing is you need to be here to benefit from this angling paradise.
Whether your angling method is bait or artificial, this is the time to get it all out of the tackle box and spend these days of cooler weather and seasonal changes walking a reef or lonely shoreline casting out and setting hooks! At Bay Flats Lodge we have a good mix of clients requesting to be in the boat with bait and out in the water wading with artificials. All of our guides can do either method and we all love the change this time of year brings. So check us out online at bayflatslodge.com or phone us at 888-677-4868 and let’s think of a way to make all this happen!
Capt Stephen Boriskie Bay Flats Lodge 512-589-1916
