Texas toKey West

Nine fisheries, one coast. The conditions change every few hundred miles, so the gear that suits the Lower Laguna is not what you want in the Louisiana marsh.

09Regions
63Ports
01Coast

Index 01 to 09

Pick your water

Every region page covers the ports, the species, the season and the one condition that decides what you should be wearing there.

01Texas CoastGalveston, Freeport, Matagorda, Rockport, Port Aransas, Corpus Christi, Port Mansfield, South Padre Island8 ports / 4 species
02Upper Texas CoastSabine Pass, Port Arthur, Galveston, Texas City, Freeport, Matagorda, Palacios7 ports / 4 species
03Coastal BendRockport, Fulton, Port Aransas, Aransas Pass, Ingleside, Corpus Christi, Padre Island7 ports / 4 species
04South Padre and the Lower LagunaSouth Padre Island, Port Isabel, Arroyo City, Port Mansfield, Brownsville5 ports / 4 species
05LouisianaVenice, Grand Isle, Lafitte, Hopedale, Cocodrie, Delacroix, Buras7 ports / 4 species
06Mississippi and AlabamaBiloxi, Gulfport, Ocean Springs, Bayou La Batre, Dauphin Island, Mobile, Orange Beach, Gulf Shores8 ports / 4 species
07Florida PanhandlePensacola, Navarre, Destin, Panama City Beach, Port St. Joe, Apalachicola, Carrabelle7 ports / 5 species
08Tampa Bay and Southwest FloridaTampa, St. Petersburg, Sarasota, Boca Grande, Fort Myers, Naples, Chokoloskee, Everglades City8 ports / 5 species
09Florida KeysKey Largo, Islamorada, Marathon, Big Pine Key, Sugarloaf, Key West6 ports / 5 species

02 / The coast

One coast, nine different days

The Gulf runs roughly a thousand miles from the Lower Laguna Madre to Key West, and it does not fish like one place. Texas is shallow, windy and brown. Louisiana is marsh you can get lost in. The Panhandle is white sand and glare. The Keys are flats on one side and blue water on the other.

What stays constant is the sun. Every one of these fisheries is a full day in the open with no shade, which is why what we make starts with coverage and works back from there.

Ports index