Well we asked for some Fall weather, and look what we got. It sucks outside!!!

So this may be a pretty quick and painless Rockport Fly Fishing report for the week. But since we have some time on our hands, why not at least do something with this thing we suppose?

The weather is the big story lately. Today marked day number 11 in a row that we have had to cancel all of our trips. And we still have the remainder of this week that it looks like we will be kept off the water with weather as well. Not exactly what we would expect for our Fall fishing season.

It’s one thing to get a cold front here or there. But these things are stacking up like waves and just continually pounding on us. So we have no choice but to sit and wait.

There has been lots of fly trying. Lots of napping. Lots of pacing back and fourth in the house. Capt. Jeff was gonna fly to Key West just to try and get away from the weather, but its raining there too! So, back to the sitting and waiting. It’s even too crappy out to golf! And a few of our guys really love to golf.

It looks like we can finally dust the skiffs off this coming weekend. But who knows if that will change before then. But as of the time of this writing, we are fishing Saturday… FINALLY. So we will get some boats out on the water and hopefully be able to report back early next week with some fishy intel.

Happy Thanksgiving to all, from all of us here at Fly Fish Rockport. We are thankful for everyone that helps make this possible and spends time with us on the water.

We will continue to report back as we can with what we are seeing out there. Also, we have a new series of videos coming to our Youtube channel as well. Something kinda funny and different to do. Flyfishing is not serious. Or at least it shouldn’t be. So we are gonna have a little fun and make a few funny videos based on the lighter side of red fishing.

If you are looking to get out on the water, you can always contact us any time if you would like to BOOK A TRIP or need any up to the minute Southwest Texas fly fishing or Rockport fishing report type news. We continue to post on  Instagram, Facebook, Twitter and other such stuff. Or perhaps SUBSCRIBE to our YouTube Channel as well. We continually are trying to add more videos and stuff there. We try to keep stuff fresh for those of you that are wishing you were on the flats with us. So be sure to follow us on all our social media stuff. And don’t forget to sign up for our monthly newsletter below.

Finally its Fall! And FINALLY Capt. Jeff got his act together to update the Rockport Fly Fishing Report. It has certainly been “a while” since our last. But rest assured that we have been out there most every day chasing fish up and down the flats of the Texas Coast.

The fishing has been very good. Fall is here and things are finally cooling off. All positives for the fishing down here. We are still seeing schools and tails most every day. More so in the morning than anything. But finding tails anytime during the day isn’t really too shocking.

We are fishing all over the place lately. Some of the guys are loving it up North; POC, Mesquite Bay, etc. Some of our other guides are spending a bunch of time South of Port Aransas… or further. But reports across the board have been really good.

Lots of over-slot fish moving around the flats right now. Maybe even a bull here and there. But most of those really big fish haven’t quite made it in to the flats yet. Pretty sure they are waiting for a bit cooler water. But we aren’t far off from those 40-50″ fishing swimming around the flats.

For flies, most everything is working. The fish are just happy. Black and purple is still out favorite. But white worked just as well. Or anything shrimpy is great too. If you were to hang out at the table of death (cleaning station) while bait guys are there, you will notice every redfish is stuffed full of shrimp right now. So choose a fly and fish it with confidence. It will work.

We are out every day for the rest of the week this week, and the foreseeable future.  We will continue to report back as we can with what we are seeing out there. Also, we have a new series of videos coming to our Youtube channel as well. Something kinda funny and different to do. Flyfishing is not serious. Or at least it shouldn’t be. So we are gonna have a little fun and make a few funny videos based on the lighter side of red fishing.

If you are looking to get out on the water, you can always contact us any time if you would like to BOOK A TRIP or need any up to the minute Southwest Texas fly fishing or Rockport fishing report type news. We continue to post on  Instagram, Facebook, Twitter and other such stuff. Or perhaps SUBSCRIBE to our YouTube Channel as well. We continually are trying to add more videos and stuff there. We try to keep stuff fresh for those of you that are wishing you were on the flats with us. So be sure to follow us on all our social media stuff. And don’t forget to sign up for our monthly newsletter below.

It June. New month, and time for a new Rockport Fishing Report. Especially since it’s been a little bit since our last. So we will bring you up to speed on what you missed and what we are seeing out on the Texas flats these days.

The fishing has been very good. Doesn’t really matter where you choose to fish, it’s just pretty darn solid out there. Big schools, small schools, tails, crashers and anywhere in between. The fish are plenty happy each day and our clients are getting lots of shots. So no complaints there.

It is the beginning time of Summer around here now. So the temps are getting pretty warm, as is the water. So it’s a better morning game than late. But we are still having solid fishing into the early afternoon. So all good there.

But Summer also means crowds. So there are far more people on the water most days. Tournaments are in the area every weekend these days as well. TOURNAMENTS SUCK!!! No two ways about it. They just do. We already have enough boat traffic on the coast. Encouraging even more is not the answer. So we are stuck with that nightmare for the next few months. Ugh!

As for the fishing… We would like to say its just “easy”, but that wouldn’t be entirely true I guess. There are moments out there where you have to try a little. But for the most part, there are large schools moving around all over the place. And they are going to eat anything at all, so long as you get it within their sight. Not exactly rocket science there. Floating, sinking, moving, not moving… it kinda hasn’t mattered.

On the really calm days, they will be a bit tougher to get close to. But most of that is due to the fact that there are ten thousand flats boats out there harassing them every day. But other than that, just get anything to that gigantic mass of redfish and you’re in business.

We have posted a few pics of jacks lately, and are getting a ton of questions. So clearly the jacks are around as well. On the light wind days, they are moving around well. Some around Port A here and there, but much better by POC or Matagorda. Go early in the morning and be ready for combat fishing. There will be lots of boats ripping around chasing the schools, but it can be done. Anything that moves will get eaten. Topwater flies are best, if you can get em out there with the heavy rods. If not, something big and dark stripped crazy fast will work. If not, toss anything out there. It’s a jack and they eat ANYTHING!!!

Looking like more of the same moving forward. Sunny, some wind and temps a bit hotter than we would like for the next little while. The fishing will remain solid for a while longer, before the dog days of Summer begin to set in. But for now, it’s all systems go on the Texas Coast.

We are out every day for the rest of the week this week, and the foreseeable future.  We will continue to report back as we can with what we are seeing out there. Also, we have a new series of videos coming to our Youtube channel as well. Something kinda funny and different to do. Flyfishing is not serious. Or at least it shouldn’t be. So we are gonna have a little fun and make a few funny videos based on the lighter side of red fishing.

If you are looking to get out on the water, you can always contact us any time if you would like to BOOK A TRIP or need any up to the minute Southwest Texas fly fishing or Rockport fishing report type news. We continue to post on  Instagram, Facebook, Twitter and other such stuff. Or perhaps SUBSCRIBE to our YouTube Channel as well. We continually are trying to add more videos and stuff there. We try to keep stuff fresh for those of you that are wishing you were on the flats with us. So be sure to follow us on all our social media stuff. And don’t forget to sign up for our monthly newsletter below.

We are one week into May and due for an updated Rockport Fishing Report, for Rockport, Texas and surrounding water on The Coastal Bend. It’s been almost two weeks since our last report, so we will do our best to get you caught up on what we are seeing out on the water each day, and what we are expecting for the days to come. Then hopefully we will have another Rockport Fly Fishing Report for you in a weeks time.

Overall, we would say that it’s been pretty solid fly fishing The Coastal Bend. Really, the weather has been the only drawback for us. We’ve had a decent shortage of sunshine, and over abundance of wind. Not exactly ideal for the whole sight fishing thing. But neither are bad enough to keep us off the water at all. Just really annoying.

For the past two weeks, or more, it seems like we wake up each morning to clouds and winds already blowing 15 mph. or so. Then it picks up from there. Seeing 20-25 mph every day is pretty common place. Again, not a deal breaker at all. But it is really annoying.

Most of the days have remained mostly cloudy until the early afternoons. Then the sun will finally burn through, just about the time you are thinking about heading to the ramp. Really annoying! Not really our norm for this time of year. It is Spring. So wind is just a normal part of the deal. But typically our mornings aren’t too bad, then you know it will ramp up around noon and on through the end of the day. But usually we have plenty of sunshine to make it all happen still. 15-25 mph and cloudy all day is just a huge pain in the ass and not easy on anyone out there.

All that being said, the fish are there. Or at least we assume they are. Ha! We still see plenty of fish every day, just not as many as we should be. Also, not as many quality shots as we would like each day. With the sun out, we should be seeing 100-200 fish a day out there. Hopefully a good number of shots out of those fish as well. But with all the cloudy days, it’s been a little tougher. Many of the fish we are seeing, are running from the boat already. Again… annoying!

The water had been up a good bit for a couple weeks straight. But here in the last few days, we finally had a good bit of it flushed out with some strong tides. This left a good number of flats much shallower and easy pickings. Since the water dropped, we are seeing really big schools of fish every day. Yesterday and today our guides found schools of 75-100 fish in a few different spots. Plus many others in the 20-30 range. All of them are feeding like crazy and moving across the flats steadily.

Schools this big don’t go away easily. So its not too difficult to pull one out of the school, then get back in front of it and get another.  Wash, rinse, repeat and you can boat a bunch of fish in a pretty quick time. Those schooling fish just regroup and keep plowing across the flats, looking for food. This has been a savior on a couple of these days with tougher weather conditions.

As far as flies and stuff, we have done a bunch of different stuff. The schooled up fish don’t care at all. They will eat anything that moves. This includes topwater flies as well. They are just gettin’ after it and hungry. So throw whatever you want in there and be ready. But we highly recommend anything topwater’ish. Way more fun.

For the reds that aren’t in schools and acting stupid, they are still eating ok. A few of our boats this week reported some picky fish. Part of that could’ve been that some of the shots were pretty close to the boats, with the crappy light conditions. But it seemed like some of the singles or paired up fish were on a little smaller program. They would sometimes follow, but not commit, to a crab or slightly larger fly. So putting something smaller and “easy” in front of them seemed to help a bunch. Smaller grass shrimp patterns worked well. We were screwing around trying to catch sheepshead one afternoon with a mud crab pattern about the size of a dime. That ended up catching 8-9 reds that day as well. They just seemed to pick up the smaller stuff without much issue. Probably more an attitude thing that fly thing. But something we noticed.

There are still black drum swimming around EVERYWHERE!!! Large, small or everything in between. They are just freaking everywhere out there. Some folks will cast at them, many don’t care and watch them swim by. But they are there and most are willing to eat for you. Darker patterns are better for this stinky things, as usual.

There are plenty of jacks around as well. Unfortunately, we haven’t really had much weather cooperation to put in quality time to play with them. Most days have been pretty rough and not worth the effort to go mess with them. But we have had our shots here and there. They are around in good numbers and will remain for the warmer months. We would assume the tarpon, kings and everything else are here too. But with it blowing 25 every day, we haven’t even bothered to go look really. But sooner than later, we will get the big boat out and start making it happen.

The past few days have been really warm down here as well. Heat index today said 107 by mid afternoon. Seems a bit early in the year for that garbage weather! But our water is already really warm, grass is growing and apparently it is never going to rain here again! We could really use a good shot of rain down this way. Or any change in the weather to kind of mix things up a bit. We would appreciate it, and so would our fish.

This coming weekend is Babes on the Bay here in Rockport. It is hands down the worst weekend of the year to be here. It’s going to be crowded on the water, at the ramps and pretty much everywhere else as well. Pretty much a nightmare every year. But we hear that they have more entries this year than ever! So that’s special I guess? Either way, its a mess out there. So we will be trying to hide and fish some different stuff at the end of the week. If you are thinking of coming down to do a little fishing on your own, you may want to keep that part in mind. It will be a junk show out on the water. Of course there are tournaments most weekends from now on. And they are all terrible. Especially the fly fishing tournaments!!! But this is the biggest of the year and just something to keep in mind.

We are out every day for the rest of the week this week, and the foreseeable future.  We will continue to report back as we can with what we are seeing out there. Also, we have a new series of videos coming to our Youtube channel as well. Something kinda funny and different to do. Flyfishing is not serious. Or at least it shouldn’t be. So we are gonna have a little fun and make a few funny videos based on the lighter side of red fishing.

If you are looking to get out on the water, you can always contact us any time if you would like to BOOK A TRIP or need any up to the minute Southwest Texas fly fishing or Rockport fishing report type news. We continue to post on  Instagram, Facebook, Twitter and other such stuff. Or perhaps SUBSCRIBE to our YouTube Channel as well. We continually are trying to add more videos and stuff there. We try to keep stuff fresh for those of you that are wishing you were on the flats with us. So be sure to follow us on all our social media stuff. And don’t forget to sign up for our monthly newsletter below.

We’ve been off the water a few days, watching the wind blow. So I guess we can carve out some time to update our Rockport Fly Fishing Report here in April. It’s been a little bit since our last update. Not too much has changed really. But we will fill you in below on what we are doing and seeing here while fly fishing in Rockport and surrounding waters.

First off… the wind sucks!!! It’s been a little blowy lately. Enough so that we have scratched all our boats the past three days around here. Sustained winds in the 20’s and gusts up into the low 40’s mean that we don’t need to be out there. It’s gotten so bad, that we’ve even avoided the golf course lately. That means it’s bad!

But tomorrow is another day. We will be out there again, and for the rest of the week, looking for fish. It will still be pretty darn windy the rest of this week leading in to Easter, but not so bad that we will have to cancel boats. So we will be out there every day for the foreseeable future now.

Since our last report, things have continued to fish well and even improve. Of course those were the sunny days. We did have a solid run of days that were dark, damp and windy as crap. Those proved to be a bit on the tougher side. The fish were there, but not nearly as happy as we would like. Add in the fact that you couldn’t see crap, and that made for some tougher days early last week. But on the days the sun was out, it was dirty good. Wind, or no wind, it really didn’t matter. On the sunny days, the fish were happy and moving all over the place.

We had a few days of fairly high water last week. But as soon as you got used to that, the wind blew hard from the Northwest and the water was gone. So we were back to running around looking at flats that were completely dry and finding the fish in different spots. Not a big deal really, but a little annoying for this time of year. Water this low isn’t exactly the norm. But, it does force the fish into spots where they are fairly predictable. Finding schools of 200-300 fish was pretty common on those low water days. If you found them, you found them. If not, you were searching for a while. But they were there, waiting for the water to come back in so they could move back on to the flats. This made for some pretty easy fishing, when you found those huge schools. But many of our favorite flats were high and dry there for a week or so. Again, just annoying for this time of year.

On the brighter days, the fish are way shallow chasing bait, crashing, tailing and moving all around. Shots are not hard to come by in the mornings. As the wind gets up, they change the program a bit and things get a little trickier, but not bad. They have been willing to eat anything we’ve put in front of them. Many of the fish are still puking up minnows when we land them in the boat. But any fly has worked just fine for us. The black/purple crab is still first out of the box each day. After a couple fish are in the boat, a Pop Tart topwater fly was the jam. Plenty of willing fish to chase that on the surface.

We are starting to see jacks ripping around as well. Haven’t really had the weather to go mess around in the open water for them yet, but they are running through the flats in a few spots here and there. So not a bad idea to have a heavier rod rigged up and ready to roll, if that is something you’re interested in. They are here for the season it appears. Maybe, if we can get some decent weather, we will be able to poke around and see if the Kings, Tarpon and other stuff are in as well. If they aren’t, they won’t be too far behind.

We are out every day for the rest of the week this week. It’s going to be windy and a bit cloudier than we would like, but at least we can get our boats on the water and people on some fish. We will continue to report back as we can with what we are seeing out there. Also, we have a new series of videos coming to our Youtube channel as well. Something kinda funny and different to do. Flyfishing is not serious. Or at least it shouldn’t be. So we are gonna have a little fun and make a few funny videos based on the lighter side of red fishing.

If you are looking to get out on the water, you can always contact us any time if you would like to BOOK A TRIP or need any up to the minute Southwest Texas fly fishing or Rockport fishing report type news. We continue to post on  Instagram, Facebook, Twitter and other such stuff. Or perhaps SUBSCRIBE to our YouTube Channel as well. We continually are trying to add more videos and stuff there. We try to keep stuff fresh for those of you that are wishing you were on the flats with us. So be sure to follow us on all our social media stuff. And don’t forget to sign up for our monthly newsletter below.

We are down with some gnarly winds today. So it seemed like a good opportunity to update the fly fishing report for Rockport, Texas and surrounding waters. It’s been a little over a week since our last report and things are trying to change around here, sorta. So here is the current lay of the land down here and what we are looking at for the coming week or so down on the Texas Coast.

Since our last report, it has been pretty good down on the coast. We’ve had more nice day than bad, which means we have been able to get a bunch of boats out on the water. We still had a couple of cold fronts roll through, but they were are a bit more standard for this time of year. Quick and painless is kind of the deal with these. They blow in pretty fierce, get cold for a day or two and then blow out with some calm days behind them.

On the days we are out, we are seeing plenty of fish. It’s not outstanding out there, but plenty solid for late Winter fishing. The water has remained very cold still. We just haven’t had enough sun or warm days to do much for those water temps. So low to mid 40’s are common most mornings. So that has been the biggest holdup on the fish. They just aren’t overly excited everywhere. They have their moments for sure, but we are still seeing far more fish laying around than being active. But that will change.

We’ve been fishing everything from San Antonio Bay down to Nine Mile Hole lately and finding fish throughout. But it sure seems like the fish are just waiting for things to warm up a bit more. Even on our nicest days lately, they just don’t get fired up during the day like you want them to. They want to, but just don’t quite have it in them yet.

Any active fish we find out there is plenty happy to eat a fly. They aren’t picky at all. As long as its in front of them, and not moving too quickly, they’ll eat. Some still charge the fly, but most are a little more leisurely with their approach. But pretty much anything will work out there. We still prefer darker colored stuff. Especially with the large numbers of drum around lately. Not uncommon to get a handful of shots at drum every day right now. Some are average size, but most are tanks. So we are especially liking the black stuff to get those stinky guys to eat.

we’ve always told people that Winter in Rockport or South Texas is pretty much over that third week of February every year. Not that we don’t get cold fronts beyond that, because we do. But you can just tell there is a difference. The fronts have a lot less bight to them, are shorter and are the rarity more than the norm. So by our calendar, that means by the end of this week we hope to be turning the corner towards Spring. Already we have had a couple nice days this week with temps in the mid 70’s. Now we just need the overnight temps to hold up as well. Then, you start getting more winds from the Southeast bringing warm air our direction. The days are getting longer and putting more sunlight on the water, which warms things up for the fish. Just everything begins to change. So mark it on your calendars, Spring fishing is starting in the next week or so. Finally!

We have a couple of our guys headed up to Troutfest this weekend, while the rest stay on the coast and will be in the boats all weekend. But after this weekend, it’s all hands on deck out there. We have boats out every day for the foreseeable future, so long as the weather plays nice. Spring dates are filling up very quickly, with Summer following right behind. And as this weather warms, things just get busier and busier down here.

If you are looking to get out on the water, you can always contact us any time if you would like to BOOK A TRIP or need any up to the minute Southwest Texas fly fishing or Rockport fishing report type news. We continue to post on  Instagram, Facebook, Twitter and other such stuff. Or perhaps SUBSCRIBE to our YouTube Channel as well. We continually are trying to add more videos and stuff there. We try to keep stuff fresh for those of you that are wishing you were on the flats with us. So be sure to follow us on all our social media stuff. And don’t forget to sign up for our monthly newsletter below.