New bay boat and need help fishing Rockport Area

[ateague11]

I recently got a tunnel bay boat and plan to take my family fishing around the Rockport area this summer. I don't expect anyone to give up all their fishing spots but if someone could PM me a couple GPS coordinates to get me started down there it would be much appreciated.

Thanks!

[SmTx]

These have the "known" spots https://hooknline.net/

[Capt Glenn]

The important part isn't the where, it's the when to be at that where.

[ateague11]

The important part isn't the where, it's the when to be at that where.

If you can let me know when too that would be great..lol jk

[Capt Glenn]

Identify areas where you will get good current flow. Flats that drop off into a deeper channel, oyster reefs, areas with sand bars and guts. Any kind of structure like that will hold fish. Fish it when the water is moving. Incoming or outgoing, I don't care near as much as that it is moving. Those are just a few ideas to start. Pick out a few places you feel like you can get to in your boat and start there and begin exploring. Grass flats with potholes, spartina grass shorelines, channel edges, oyster reefs, areas with scattered shell, shorelines with sand bars and guts between them, etc. There are lots of places to look. Get busy on google earth and start looking for things like that, stuff that sticks out and looks different. Any kind of structure or depth changes. Then when you get there and start fishing you just piece it all together. You need to locate baitfish, decent water and some tide flow. And go to work. Sometimes it is easier to eliminate water based on wind direction first and then put together a plan for areas that offer wind protection for a given wind along with some structure.

If you start piecing it together like that you'll set yourself up for much more success down the road. It's a puzzle with a ton of pieces that we try to figure out every day. The neverending guessing game.

[Mexico]

^^^ this man knows!

[SabineHunter]

Great advice.

[glen]

It is a little run but it gets you away from alot of the crowding. Drains and ditchs along Mesquite and and also the National Shoreline drains along the ditch are both great areas

[rvd]

Identify areas where you will get good current flow. Flats that drop off into a deeper channel, oyster reefs, areas with sand bars and guts. Any kind of structure like that will hold fish. Fish it when the water is moving. Incoming or outgoing, I don't care near as much as that it is moving. Those are just a few ideas to start. Pick out a few places you feel like you can get to in your boat and start there and begin exploring. Grass flats with potholes, spartina grass shorelines, channel edges, oyster reefs, areas with scattered shell, shorelines with sand bars and guts between them, etc. There are lots of places to look. Get busy on google earth and start looking for things like that, stuff that sticks out and looks different. Any kind of structure or depth changes. Then when you get there and start fishing you just piece it all together. You need to locate baitfish, decent water and some tide flow. And go to work. Sometimes it is easier to eliminate water based on wind direction first and then put together a plan for areas that offer wind protection for a given wind along with some structure.

If you start piecing it together like that you'll set yourself up for much more success down the road. It's a puzzle with a ton of pieces that we try to figure out every day. The neverending guessing game.

Excellent info above from Capt Glenn.

Do you have a particular ramp you plan to launch from?

[Walker]

All of San Jose shoreline. Allen's Byte. Fence Lake.. Outside Traylor Island. The end of the piers along the old part of Rockport around Hunts Courts.

[ateague11]

Identify areas where you will get good current flow. Flats that drop off into a deeper channel, oyster reefs, areas with sand bars and guts. Any kind of structure like that will hold fish. Fish it when the water is moving. Incoming or outgoing, I don't care near as much as that it is moving. Those are just a few ideas to start. Pick out a few places you feel like you can get to in your boat and start there and begin exploring. Grass flats with potholes, spartina grass shorelines, channel edges, oyster reefs, areas with scattered shell, shorelines with sand bars and guts between them, etc. There are lots of places to look. Get busy on google earth and start looking for things like that, stuff that sticks out and looks different. Any kind of structure or depth changes. Then when you get there and start fishing you just piece it all together. You need to locate baitfish, decent water and some tide flow. And go to work. Sometimes it is easier to eliminate water based on wind direction first and then put together a plan for areas that offer wind protection for a given wind along with some structure.

If you start piecing it together like that you'll set yourself up for much more success down the road. It's a puzzle with a ton of pieces that we try to figure out every day. The neverending guessing game.

Thank you for the great advise. This helps a ton!

[brokeno]

Check out Aransas pass fishing report on utube. They have a weekly report that is very informative. Good thing about aransas pass - rockport are there is lots of flats, islands and areas protected when the conditions aren't perfect.