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SABINE LAKE SALTWATER FISHING REPORT
The area boasts what Texas Parks & Wildlife Department officials believed to be the state's largest redfish and flounder populations. Sabine Lake is a great area to catch big speckled trout. Sabine Lake is located one and a half hours from Houston, five hours from Dallas, three hours from New Orleans and six hours from San Antonio. There is five times more marshland in the Sabine Lake ecosystem than there is in the huge Galveston Bay complex.
There are good catches of trout on soft plastic shrimp tails, curl-tailed grubs and imitation shad from Johnson Bayou north to East Pass. Another hot bait has been the glow colored Norton Sand Eel. I was able to fish it last week and found it very effective for schooling specks. An interesting phenomena lately has been that bird action has remained heavy, but some of the best catches have come from working pods of bait that have no birds feeding over them. This is especially true for redfish. Several locals have reported running into schools of redfish feeding on main lake shad, but there were no birds over them. Best baits for these reds have been live finger mullet fished on a free line and 1/2 ounce gold spoons. Flounder action is good on both the Texas and Louisiana sides of the lake. There are good catches of flounder from the Walter Umphrey Pier and near the causeway bridge. Some large flounder are being caught along the ship channel near Sabine Pass at Texas Bayou and at the foot of the jetties. Flounder are also being caught in Keith Lake. Anglers fishing live mud minnows and white jigs where the cut meets the main lake are catching fish up to four pounds. God bless, Chester Moore
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