Welcome to the site and board! I lived for almost 11 years in Ingleside and grew up in Orange TX so I also know the Red's and Speck's fishing. I pretty much always came up here to Toledo Bend after it opened and left the salt water to others. Actually back then the salt water fishing around Orange kind of stunk anyway, but that changed after the nets were finally taken out in the 80's.
So I was loaded up with Bass gear and when I moved to Ingleside back in about 1980 there was not much in the way of good fresh water fishing down there so I geared up for the saltwater again and loved it so much. Loved fishing the bay system from Corpus Bay all the way to Mesquite Bay and Cedar Bayou. Such a huge area to explore and fish and fish I did! However now your here and yes all is different and you may as well store all your things for saltwater fishing until you go back to do that!
Look forward to seeing how you do and I live only 5 miles down the road from Fin & Feather. Actually before I lived here that is where I put my boat in for many many years. I needed something to take up my time after I quit trading the stock market something like 12 years ago so I took up tying jigs and flies and now even sell materials to other guys that tie! Maybe sometime when your here we can meet up. and if I can help with any questions you can just PM me on here and I will answer as well as I can. I live on Six Mile on Toledo Bend which is the middle of the huge 3 fingers down on the South end. I have always thought Housen is some of the best water on the lake and that is where F&F is. Find some Hydrilla and fish that and you should find crappie in 4' to 10' of water and where ever you catch your fist one make sure to note what depth your boat is in and stay in that depth of water all day. I am not sure how you plan on fishing and that would help as there are a lot of methods.
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