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Reel in the Perfect Holiday Gifts for Anglers and Outdoor Enthusiasts!
The holiday season is upon us, and what better way to celebrate than by showing the anglers and outdoor enthusiasts in your life that you truly understand their passion? Finding the right gift can feel as tricky as reeling in a trophy fsh, but fear not! We’ve got some fantastic ideas that will have them casting their lines with glee.
As the holiday season rolls around, remember that the best gifts come from the heart. Whether it’s a high-tech fshing gadget, some fshing apparel or even a new boat or motor, these thoughtful presents are sure to delight the anglers and outdoor enthusiasts in your life. So, cast your line into the sea of gift ideas...you’re bound to reel in something special!
LAST CHANCE FOR GROUPER ROMANCE
Depending on where you live, December could be the last month for all grouper harvest. I think red and black grouper will still be available in Florida’s East Coast, while red and scamp grouper will be available in Georgia and the Carolinas. !is is when the bite is the best. I’ve always said that the week of Christmas is the apex of grouper shing and I’ll stand by that statement. !e month of November was on re here in the Carolinas. Even though we can’t keep gag, grouper and American red snapper have been plentiful. !e good news is the light line has been working well.
!e key to nding good bait is a tackle shop that keeps beautiful, frozen cigar minnows and sardines. !ese baits are the ticket to good bottom bites and the light line going o . Needless to say, live cigars and live sardines are extremely e ective on the light line and under the kite, but frozen ones work well also. Live menhaden and pin sh are always a smart play to have in the live well before heading o shore. If you nd live cigar minnows and live sardines, all the better, but if you don’t, at least you have those two for live baits on the bottom and for the light line.
A live sardine or a live cigar on the correct jig has a life expectancy of just a few seconds. !is is where it pays o to nd a shop that carries beautiful (frozen) bait. When you open up a box of frozen cigar minnows and see beautiful, clear eyes and yellow on the tails you’ve got a box of bites in your hands. If you have a frozen box of cloudy-eyed, mushy cigar minnows, then you might not nd what you’re looking for on the bottom or on the light line. If you nd large schools of cigars or sardines, it o en pays to spend a little bit of time to catch them. !is always results in bites, whereas the frozen minnows work most of the time.
!e Sabiki can be the most valuable player of all. Just like you use a dehooker to remove your grouper and snapper from the hook, use a dehooker to remove your cigar, minnows and sardines from the Sabiki hook. !is keeps those small needles and sharp hooks out of your hands and it’s better for the minnows and the live well not to handle them with your hands.
Don’t be surprised if you catch these sh in extremely shallow water this month. !e 66- to 68-degree temperature break can be magical this month for the light line. No telling what you’ll catch. Everything can be there, from kings to wahoo and everything in between.
I said all that to say this: Get out there with some pretty bait and go harvesting some good dinners!
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A couple of weeks ago news was leaked of a seawater desalination plant which is planned to be constructed on the western shoreline of Galveston bay. Is this good for the area and or generally bad for our bay system? Well, let's take a look at the good and bad side of a desalination facility.
Having enough freshwater is a big concern especially in a state this size with a growing population. The 'explosion' of folks moving into the bay area has been tremendous. The population increase, along with the rise in commercial industry, has stretched our water supply. Is desalination the answer?
Desalination has been used on merchant and naval ships for years. The ships utilize flash evaporation and reverse osmosis to convert seawater into potable water used for drinking, bathing (showers), and cooking. The 'brine' high salinity water, created from the process is discharged back into the sea. Sounds reasonable to me.
There are desalination plants in Texas. These plants primarily treat brackish water, not saltwater. This summer a company applied for a permit to build one in the back of Baffin bay. Environmentalist, professional, commercial,
and recreational anglers won their fight against it because of the discharge "brine' back into Baffin bay.
What's different about this plant that is planned at the old HL&P facility in Baycliff, Texas? Let's take a look at the project.
EPCOR, a subsidiary of a Canadian utility company, at the time of the completion of the plant, plans to produce 26.5 million gallons of potable water per day. Now, will this number of gallons produced continue to rise with demand? Will sure it is! All sounds good. right? On paper it does, but what about the impact to the bay.
First, if the discharge wasn't good for Baffin, why would it be good for Galveston? The company cites less environmental impact to Galveston bay because of its size, tidal flow, and need for saltwater during the times of freshwater runoff. What happens when we go into a drought? Does the plant stop producing water? Too little salinity and too much salinity is detrimental to marine life in our bay.
Secondly, the water intake for this project is in Dickinson bay. Dickinson bay is an estuary. In other words, this is a nursery area for marine life, fry. The fry will be sucked in through the intake killing how many potential pounds of fish and shrimp in a year? A number way too big to guess.
Bottom line, while this is a reasonable solution to the areas water demands, but is this the prime location for this type of plant? On paper it might be because the intake and discharge canals are already in place, but CCA opposes any discharge of brine from a desalination plant into any bay system. Hopefully, CCA will also oppose the intake location considering it's a TP&W deemed estuary.
One last item, this is their first attempt at a plant like this, let's not let Galveston bay become their guinea pig. I'll keep you posted of any proposed public hearings in the future.
Fishing has been good with most of the action taking place in the northwest corner of Galveston bay. Best bite has been on live shrimp, but a few fish are being taken on artificial lures.
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Winter Bait, Winter Bite: How to Outsmart Specks, Reds & Flounder
As the temperatures drop along the coast, the fishing heats up. Speckled trout, redfish, and flounder all shift gears when winter rolls in—and if you want to stay on the bite, your approach needs to shift with them. One of the biggest questions anglers debate is whether lure color or size matters more. While we all love a good tackle box fashion show, I’m convinced size has a bigger impact than color when cold weather takes over. And remember—fish don’t watch YouTube, read fishing forums, or care what’s trending online. They simply eat when they want to eat. Our job is to make that meal look familiar, easy, and worth the effort.
Why Size Matters More
When things get tough on the water, many anglers start swapping colors like they’re picking paint samples. But in winter, water gets clearer, bait gets larger, and fish get picky. Trout and reds are usually keyed in on the size of what they’re eating, not the exact shade.
Rule of Thumb:
• Active feeding? Schools of bait present? Go smaller and match the hatch.
• Slower fish? Colder water? Less bait? Consider upsizing for a bigger “easy meal.”
Winter water clarity can reach 6–7 feet in some bays—practically aquarium-grade. A large, flashy lure in clear water is like waving a flag in front of spooky fish. Downsizing your profile creates a more natural presentation and often earns more strikes.
Birds, Bait, and Mayhem
If you’ve ever watched gulls dive-bomb a bait school with trout blowing up below, you know the adrenaline rush. Fall and early winter can bring bigger trout into these bird-driven feeding sessions.
To stay in the game:
• Use a heavier jighead (¼ to ⅜ oz) to cast farther and stay back from spooky schools.
• If birds calm down and fish stay up, try a topwater for a shot at some of the bigger girls.
Fall Flounder Migration
Then there’s the legendary fall flounder run. These flat ambushers stack up along passes and channels as they push toward the Gulf to spawn. They’re hungry, aggressive, and opportunistic. If you’re targeting flounder:
• Keep your lure in contact with the bottom.
• Use short rod-tip twitches, not big lifts.
• Slow your retrieve—think crawl, pause, crawl. Flounder aren’t shy, they just want the meal close enough to inhale.
The Big Trout Window
By late fall and throughout winter, bait thins out—and that’s when trophy trout dreams get real. Colder water, less bait, and slower fish
actually favor artificial lure anglers. This is when patience, subtlety, and quiet wading shine.
Final Cast
Winter rewards anglers who adjust. Change size first, then color, read the water, and enjoy the chaos, the calm, and everything in between. And if you’ve got a young angler around with nothing to do during the holiday breaks, this is the perfect season to get them hooked.
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Shopping for a bass sherman isn’t easy.
Most of us already have enough rods and tackle boxes to ll a garage, and we’re picky about every lure we throw. But that’s what makes stocking stu ers the ideal gi!s: they are small, useful gi!s that actually get used on the water.
An absolute can’t miss item is shing line. A spool of Su x line is my recommendation, whether it’s 832 braid or Advance uorocarbon. is is one of those gi!s that every bass sherman truly appreciates. It’s the kind of thing we always need but hate spending money, making it a perfect stocking surprise.
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At the end of the day, the best gi!s for a bass sherman aren’t necessarily the biggest or ashiest. Instead, they’re the thoughtful, practical items that make time on the water smoother, easier, and just a little more fun. By throwing a few of these suggestions in a stocking – and maybe adding a gas station co ee card for good measure- you’re sure to have any bass angler smiling wider than a ve-pounder at weigh-in.
Happy Holidays, Y’all!
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