We are going down this weekend. Is the June grass bad? Anyone down that way? My sons really wanting to catch some fish. We maybe taking our kayaks too. Anyone know a good place to put in on the bay or river to catch some good fish. Don’t care what they are as long as they pull him around pretty good. Also thought about taking baits out surf fishing on kayaks and dropping them. How far out is a good distance and what baits to use? We usually surf fish and use sand fleas and squid and cigar minnows. Could we do any good in kayaks just pass sand bar fishing artificial?

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Right around the 3 mile marker is a launch spot. It’s deep sand so drive accordingly.

Buddy of mine fished last Saturday afternoon near Lagoon Pass. Lot’s of catfish. Grass got really bad later that afternoon. This time of year the grass will be hit or miss depending on wind, current etc

Ask jwalker he catches a bunch of biguns out there

Gotcha plugs, glass minnow jigs, pretty much anything shiny will be good if the fish are close by. Look for the churning bait balls and get close and cast to its edges. Plowing through may bust up the feeling frenzy. Spanish macs, ladyfish, hardtails, bonita.. most anything is going to hit those shiny lures. Probably need 30lb flouro leader to keep cut-offs to a minimum.

Rig a bigger rod with a stinger rig, and hook one of the hardtails on it and troll/paddle around on and past the second sandbar. Keep the drag set so the baitfish wont pull drag, and if you're lucky, you'll hook a mack truck of a king. My biggest king to date (42") came right off the second sandbar, about 100 yards from the beach.

June grass is terrible this year... it's become July grass and will probably be August grass week after next
I've always had good results fishing little lagoon this time of year.

I was there this past weekend. The June grass was so bad on the last day that I made one cast and put the rod away. Over a couple of days I did manage to catch a couple of whiting, catfish, blue runners, and a Spanish. All on a pompano rig with Fish Bites in sand flea and shrimp flavors.

We caught some red fish on the Bobby Garland Monkey Milk jigs and live shrimp last week. Fishing around the shadow areas around piers. One house with a rock wall a old man will come out and stare at you.

The Gulf beaches are full of grass

Odd that its thick over on that side. It was bad here a few weeks back but cleared out now. Or it was last week up til Sunday afternoon.