Following is this week's Texas Parks & Wildlife fishing report for parts of the Gulf Coast of Texas.

Red snapper season has opened up, and the bite is great on squid cigar minnows and live perch ... Target grass lines with lots of bait to find your best fish. Even some windy shorelines have ...

They’re large enough creatures to form their own bait ball, with cigar minnows surrounding them in huge schools so dense that you sometimes can’t even see the goliath inside.” Christopher ...

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Crappie are good on brush piles with minnows and jigs in 10-16 feet of ... good on main lake points and bridges. Look for large bait balls on your graph and the white bass and largemouth bass ...

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In the southern section of the aqueduct, Cope’s Rod and Tackle in Bakersfield reported decent striped bass action with cut sardines, anchovies, or live minnows while tube baits, jerkbaits ...