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Species

Where each fish lives, how it feeds, and what that means for the fly.

Salt water

Redfish

Redfish — red drum, to the biologists — are the reason most Texas fly anglers own an eight-weight. They live in water so shallow their backs break the surface, they eat crabs and s…

Speckled Trout

Spotted seatrout are the most common gamefish in the Texas bays and the most consistently underestimated by fly anglers. They are not difficult to catch. They are difficult to catc…

Gulf Coast Tarpon

Tarpon in Texas are a matter of timing and tolerance for disappointment. They pass along the beachfront and through the passes from roughly July into October, they are large, and t…

Black Drum

The redfish's larger, slower, and more deliberate cousin. Black drum cruise the same Texas bays and eat the same crabs and shrimp, but they do it with their chins down, rooting alo…

Southern Flounder

A fish built like a doormat and wired like a trap. Southern flounder lie flat on the bay bottom, half-buried, waiting for something to swim over them. They are not a conventional f…

Fresh water

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