Baffin Bay/Land Cut

Wind and water level at Baffin Bay Pt. Of Rocks

8/19 Baffin Bay via Captain Black - Baffin is hit and miss these days. One good day and a couple of not so good days. Lots of dinks but we have caught some nice trout up to 27" with a couple of days with multiple trout over 25. mostly on plastics (paddletails and devil eyes) around the sandbars and rocks. Topwaters have been good but mostly small fish but what a blast to get blowups almost every cast first thing in the morning.

8/5 Baffin Bay Via Captain Black- Decent topwater bite early. Most fish caught over deeper rocks. Still lots of small trout but we managed a good solid box of fish to take home with trout up to 21". Dark plastics worked pretty well later in the morning

A Landcut Report from O'Brother who fished last weekend - Fished the land cut this past weekend with a brother and cousin.. Caught a few trout and reds.. My brother caught his personal best trout at 27 3/4" and my cousin caught a bull red over 40"..

Mike

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7/23 Here is a weekend from Nebulosos Upper Laguna and Baffin/Alazan - We headed out saturday to look for some trout for an upcoming tourney. pulled into a fishy looking area around 8:00 and as soon as we stepped out of the boat, we were catching dinks left and right. saw a bunch of flounder, but couldn't get any of them to hit... oh well. after only putting one fish on the stringer, we headed down the shoreline to another 'fishy' looking spot... saw more flounder. waded for a while with only one dink. decided to switch from my mojo colored big mino to a salt n pepper assassin. first cast = 25", 5 lb trout... released after attempted photos (thanks to my brother, who appearantly doesn't know how to use a camera...). two redfish and one more keeper trout to the box and that was the end of the day for us. the fish were caught in waist deep water (or less), over a sandy/grassy flat with TONS of bait present. all fish caught on tops and tails.

that same day, my brother fished the API tourney @ bluff's landing. his team took 1st place stringer w/ a huge trout caught somewhere in alazan (on croaker...), a nice sized flounder (caught in baffin on a sandbar in less than a foot of water) and a mid-slot redfish (caught over a mud/grass spoil island in the laguna). congrats to robert johnson, shane maxwell, tj collins and troy utterback... nice fish guys!

7/15 A REPORT! Via Captain Black - My apologies, tightlipped guides, thunderstorms and highwater have kept my reporting on Baffin woefully inadequate but today my buddy, Capt. Aubrey Black gave me the scoop. He says the high water has the fish scattered somewhat compared to the pre high water levels but he is still getting plenty of trout though no big girls. Best luck with the winds have been on the South Shoreline of Baffin fishing Skitterwalks in the full and small sizes in bone, pearl and pink. Plenty of eating sized fish with a few 23 to 25 inches.

6/7 Baffin Saturday 6/5 via Djohn71 - Boss told me he had awesome fishing last Friday and Monday at east Kleberg Point, so I decided to make a run to Baffin today. Called most of my fishing buddies (even Tyler), but all were busy, so this was going to be a solo adventure. After I gave my buddies the 8 trout 16-20” from ULM last weekend, the wife told me not to come home without fish for dinner. She even excused from visiting the in-laws in SATX.

Headed out shortly after 5 am to by bait at Clems and discovered some idiot kid had rolled his little SUV into a front yard on Hawksnest and split from the scene. Knocked out power in several houses.

Picked up 4 dozen croaker and 50 shrimp and was on the water by 6:45. Smooth, calm, sailing going south. The last time I fished Baffin was a few years back before my friend Terry Drake passed. For me, Baffin is the place on the right on the way to Rocky Slough and the land cut. I don’t like rough water or the rocks, but I know they hold some nice trout and three reports all said Baffin was hot.

7: 30ish. I made the right at Marker 2 and headed down to EKP. Nine boats in a row, I found a spot about 100 yards from my neighbors and rigged up. Bam, 15” trout, released. Croaker still alive, back out bam, another dink. 24 dinks on shrimp and croaker for the next hour. Fun, but not getting fish for the wife.

Two boats moved out and I idled up between two reefs. I figured I would throw out both until the south wind turned east, then concentrate on the big horseshoe.

Next croaker out starts swimming my float around, or so I thought. Turns out it was a 14” sand trout. I added him to the box along with a 16” and 15 ½ which had swallowed the hook.

8:40, Haynie with a Black Evinrude motor w/in 40 yards and drops anchor. They bring a nice trout and hoop it up. I C and R a black drum. About 9:00 my reel goes off and I guess the guys on the Haynie can here the drag because they are looking and pointing. The fish is shaking its head and I think maybe….. Turns out to be a 24” red which I net myself. Thumbs up from my neighbors.

9:30, Haynie one motors out, Haynie two uses his trolling motor and anchors up about thirty yards away. I can actually hear the guy’s cell phone conversation. One of the girls on his boat lands a nice trout. I wait. And wait. 20 minutes later I hammer a nice 20” trout. Always fun netting those by yourself. I asked my neighbors if they were leaving. We shared a laugh.

11: something, An 18’trout and several more dinks. I put up the canopy and the wind picks up from the east.

12:30 another 20” trout. 12:45 another 18” trout. I also boxed two more 16” which were deep hooked.

1:30 boats come and go, but the wind has picked up to the point where 3 footers are breaking over the reef. I start to pack up and the drag starts to click. I set the hook on a nice trout, which cartwheels and shakes the hook. I guess I’ll stay.

2:30 Wife calls to make sure I’m ok. She wants fish for dinner. I decide to give it one last cast ( for the next 45 minutes) and end up catching 10 more trout, including a chunky 22” spec to end the day.

The trip back was dry, but I did get to show the game warden my fish at twin palms (He didn't want to take a picture, but he did say "nice fish"). I cleaned the small fish and the misses fried them up while I rinsed the boat.

Five fish added up to eight feet.

Four trout totaled over 80"

A few trophy picks and I cleaned the rest.

Trout caught on shrimp and croaker under a cajun thunder with a 4' leader. Fished in 3-7' of water outside the rocks. If fishing with croaker, be careful letting the trout swim with them too long or they'll swallow the hook.
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Johnny D

5/27 Baffin Via Skipper - He and a friend took out the Buddy Love and fished Penescal. Water was beautiful and Skipper could see the trout in the potholes laying around between the rocks. They had 12 trout to 26 inches on croaker and topwaters. Earlier this week Capt Black had three trout over 27" on topwaters and the trusty red and white paddletails!

5/20 Baffin Via Captain Black - Fishing was a bit tough on Thursday with the wind but fishing soft plastics on the south shore of Baffin they were able to pick up six solid trout and Sam's Redfish.

5/14 Baffin Via Captain Black - Fishing is good when the winds aren't blowing 40mph. Catching big fish shallow on topwaters. In particular pink Skitterwalks. Couple of fish over 8 lbs.
Not many reds but then we haven't been targeting them. The one time we did, we caught several lower slot reds on red/white paddletails and on the fly in ankle deep water.

5/6 Land Cut Good via Capt. Mike Singleterry - Water conditions have been pretty good the times the winds are down or at least what I have seen in the ULM, Baffin and the south end of the Landcut. Tides seem to be back to normal and fishing has really been on the up swing.

The tiderunner trout have started to show up at the south end of the Landcut and the ULM but the big numbers are not here yet. The past couple of day my clients were able to put together limits of trout using bait some of the fish have been real nice, a couple in the 27" and 26" range all the rest of the fish have been in the 17" to 20" range.

Captain Black - Has been catching trout and a couple of reds on soft plastics this week run over shallow grass flats and potholes.

4/28 Great Cabin Reports from the weekend - First up is Mad Dog and the Twins! Followed by a Gollatastic ReportI took my twin girls to the cabin this weekend. We were counting on the moon nearing full and moderate weather to turn on the trout under the lights. We arrived about an hour before sunset on Friday and got the light set up. Just as the sun was setting a fog rolled in off the Gulf. Pretty eerie if you ask me. The wind picked up and blew the fog out. By the time I got supper started shrimp were hopping on the surface. First cast with a speck rig lands a 14 incher. That got the girls interested and they started catching fish every ithe cast. I was worn out unhooking and releasing specks. Surprisingly many of the trout were of legal length. Most nights every fish is 14 or less. The longest was 22" In two nights under the lights we caught enough legal fish for each of us to limit out. Here are few pics.

Not bad for under the lights. Most of the trout were fatties.

Note the free advertising for the Big Shell clean up.

Got a late start Saturday drift fishing around Cactus Flats. The action was pretty slow but we managed a few. One of the girls registered her largest skipjack ever and her largest red fish.

I was pretty useless at work today (worn out) but it was a great weekend with my kids. Nothing epic. Just good times together.

Thanks for looking.
MD

And now Charlie Golla's Report: My brother Mike and his girlfriend Susan from San Antonio came down Saturday for the night. Rocky and Brenda were also down for the night. The tidal forecast was not favorable for Saturday night. Winds shifted from all directions but remained light for the most part. At Sundown it started off very slow and remained that way until after midnight. There was almost no movement in the water other than wind driven current until after midnight. The bite almost totally stopped at moon down which was around 4:30 AM. Not as much bait activity under the light as in previous weeks, all in part due to lesser tidal movement. However, we did manage to catch quite a few trout with 26 of them over the 15-inch slot limit. Three larger trout were caught in the 27-28 inch range that took live bait. Cathy and Chris picked up a few trout & redfish on popping corks while drift fishing early Sunday morning. Water clarity improved dramatically with little to no sign of brown tide in the Badlands.
Charlie

4/24 Still waiting on Tide Runners - Meanwhile the Landcut is still producing keeper drum. Charlie Golla and family spent last weekend refurbishing their floating cabin near the Badlands and reported good trout fishing at night with live bait with Cathy catching the biggest one a nice 28 incher. Meanwhile Capt Black is still on some decent fish with most coming on red and white paddletails. Plastics are outcatching topwaters 5 - 1 at this time. Today after the early morning cold front another one fell to a red and white paddletail in thigh deep water along a muddy drop off. Check out his blog on facebook

3/26 Captain Black - Aubrey's clients had 2over 7 Friday 3/26 here is a 7.5 pounder. All caught on soft plastics

3/19 Capt Black says it is on down south - Good trout with four up to 30 inches and 8lbs caught recently on corkies and topwaters no particular color in thigh deep water. Check out his blog

3/6 - 3/7 Baffin Bay/Landcut - We had a fun time at the CCA retreat at Twin Palms. The fishing was fairly slow. Saturday started off Cloudy with lots of east wind. The water color was a bit stained as soon as you hit south of Bird Isladn. The Land Cut was slow with little current and only produced a few small trout and several slot sized Black Drum on live shrimp and soft Plastics. A few larger Drum and reds were seen up shallow and one redfish was caught blind casting in 9 mile hole Friday. The water there was somewhat tea colored. I did receive a report that someone accidentally ran over a 56 inch redfish in the hole on Saturday. I have a picture but no confirmation of the facts. Sunday looked rather windy in the morning. Snooker-Ed and I managed to work our way back north hugging the backside of Padre Island. We found small keepers and undersized trout in four feet of water just south of Bird Island. They hit lighter colored small soft plastics. We tried the same pattern closer to the power plant up north with little results.

2/25 Baffin Bay Rodeo this weekend out of Bluff Landing - The weather is looking better and expect a good crowd of anglers going for the guaranteed $15,000. 2 day two fish live weigh in. Fishing has picked up during warming trends. Scattered big girls to 28" reported as of late in the usual deeper areas around the rocks on soft plastics with 1/16th ounce jigheads. Here is a report from Blast - N- Cast from the past weekend

Had a few buddies come in town to fish this weekend so we headed down to the cabin Friday afternoon. We arrived just before sunset got the boat unpacked and fired up the pit. We grilled some fish and shrimp for dinner and then did some fishing and ended up with a few slot Black Drum. Sat morning we worked our way North making several stops picking up a few trout but only managed one keeper. We had lunch at Laguna Reef and then headed back South. We tried several spots along the way but had little success. We got back to the cabin and rested a little before hitting it again. We managed a few slot Reds wading and then headed back to the cabin for some dinner and then some night fishing. We managed several more slot Black Drum with the largest going just under 30" and a few more Reds with the largest going 27 1/2" Sunday we fished and fished but came up empty handed. We cooked up some venison and chicken on the pit for lunch and then packed up and headed home. I am sure I speak for everyone when I say we had a great time. Great friends enjoying great food and drink and doing it in the great outdoorsHere are a few pics from the weekend

Capt Bruce Miller got this nice 29" fish fishing with bro in law Capt. Black

2/18 Baffin Bay - Good catches were reported Sunday with a couple of Big girls caught and released. Weather went south Monday. Capt. Black says As for fishing, its been a little slow but we have caught a few trout up to 26" and have picked up three flounder in the last two days all on plastic. Reds are easier to catch but tend to be on the smallish size.

2/10 Baffin Bay Captain Black Says - "Catching plenty of redfish but light on the trout. Weather has kept me off the water for the most part. We have caught some trout up to 24" and tons of redfish along the King Ranch Shoreline just north of Baffin over grass and mud keying on potholes in thigh to waist deep water. Red/white Sea Shad and Plum Saltwater Assassins on 1/16 oz. jigheads."

Reports - Please post your reports on our message board or send them to me along with your photos to Tyler@corpusfishing.com