Possibly moving to Texas....want to be in a good town that has fishing nearby. Suggestions? (Houston: apartments, condo)

[ymb]

OK, I've pretty much got nothing left up here in Ohio. I'm sick of the snow and the cold weather. So, I guess I was just wondering where some of the best places are to fish, down there. I don't have a license, so I would pretty much need to be in town, in an apartment, that would have easy access to a walmart or some type of grocery store. But the main thing is living somewhere where there is a good place to fish nearby. That is basically all I care about. I found some apartments down in Corpus Christi that would have been perfect, seeing as how they were right by CC bay. But, I really want to move down to Texas, and I have been online for about 3 hours looking around this site and other places on the web. Any suggestions?

[Cowboybootnut]

East Texas/Piney Woods, lots of good fishing lakes there and towns with WalMarts. Tyler, Lufkin, Nacogdoches, all have good fishing lakes nearby and are decent sized towns with apartments.

[Mark-Tyler is Special]

Tyler
I just copied from a post that just went off this page about Tyler.

Hi: Depends where you a moving from as to what you expect/need for the school salary to be. Also, what it cost to live where you are from, it could be a lot less than Tyler.

As far as cities, go Nac. is more laid back and Historic Place a nice small/old downtown area, a college town, really deep in the Piney Woods. I like it.

Tyler is on the edge of the Piney Woods with many more huge Oak trees, gently rolling hills, with pasture areas a well. Tyler has historic Azalea District too very modern 14 story high rise condo - major shopping, very expensive to not so expensive areas to live in, yes we do have our older "not so kept up" areas, yes some drawbacks here. One is not the property tax rate , it's the lowest in the state of any city over 15,000 population rate is .20 per $100 dollar evaluation.

Tyler has The Univesity of Texas at Tyler with the on campus Cowan Performing Arts Center with major plays that stop in Dallas also coming here, Season packages and special events. The East Texas Symphony is here that compares fairly favorabaly with the Houston Symphony, I lived in Houston 20 years. Has a really nice zoo.

Tyler is medical center of East Texas with the only Level One Truama Center,ETMC, in the area sds well as another Level II Regional Center, TMF. Many specialist here. And finally, many people find Tyler beautiful with the Azaleas,Dogwoods.Tulips and the largest Municipal Rose Garden the nation. Come take a look, of course it would be much nicer in the Spring or thereafter, it does look like winter with only the Pine trees green, we have four seasons with a mild winter.

Many people live just outside Tyler and in Whitehouse,Bullard, Lindale.

If you have anyother questions. I'll try to answer them or refer you to someone.

Good luck on your decision.

[ymb]

Thanks for the replies. I'll have to look into those as well.

[texan55]

best fishing is in the Port Mansfield/Port Isabel area.

[Lakewooder]

Good suggestions, you could also try Lake Texoma - it's huge and not that far from Dallas if you want to go to the big city or DFW or Love Field airports.

[BobTex]

I understand you don't have a car, so you'd have to be able to bicycle to your fishing spot, or walk, right? That just about rules out all of East Texas. At least for good consistent year round fishing or at least limits it severely.

I'd say Galveston might work as it recovers from the recent hurricane. WallyWorld is on Seawall Blvd. (or used to be). You can fish any of the surf anywhere along the beachfront with some good rock jetties going out into the surf 400' (at least to the 3rd trough. This will give you a chance at many specie including sharks. On the backside of the island there is Galveson Bay. On the eastern tip there is the Houston Ship Channel approach and the west jetties with some real deep water access for multi species. West tip of the island has San Luis Pass ... really BAD rip tides and really great speck (Speckled trout/Atlantic weakfish) fishing and good red fishing. Flounder gigging also is good where you can wade when the water clears (westerly winds). Corpus or anywhere on the Laguna Madre would also be a good choice. I think you're gonna have to stick to the coast though for superior fishing.


I used to fish a lot of saltwater (bay/surf fishing only) and it is very hard on your gear ... gotta have good stuff to hold up.


I am now a strict, died in the wool, freshwater fisher guy as I have moved from the coast. I fish mostly bass and some crappie (white perch/sac-a-lait) and occassionally I'll take a weekend out and stock up on catfish by either trotlining or noodling. I have gotten an invite to go flounder fishing in SW Louisiana this spring and early summer though ....ummm, loves me some flounder


Gotta get you some kinda vehicle. Texas is too big to access the neccessities of life AND the the Great Outdoors too on foot. There is some awesome outdoors stuff to do here in Texas and the outdoors is my passion. Another good site to talk Texas fishing would be the "Texas Fishing Forum" ... do the search . I hang out there every day almost ... heh heh!

[BobTex]

OK .. I se you don't have a drivers license ... my bad. Still, most good freshwater fishing is several miles from major towns and the shopping you require.

[NOTAM]

Central Texas-Lake Belton, Stillhouse Lake, Lake Travis, Buchanan Dam, Inks Lake, Lake LBJ, Lake Marble Falls, Lake Austin, Lake Brownwood, Proctor Lake, Lake Waco, Lake Whitney, Lady Bird Lake

North Texas-Lake Bridgeport, Eagle Mountain Lake, Lake Worth, Possum Kingdom Lake (my favorite), Lake Granbury....gosh i spent many years fishin' up there! miss it!

[txstate]

Central TX and North TX have the best lakes

Originally Posted by NOTAM

Central Texas-Lake Belton, Stillhouse Lake, Lake Travis, Buchanan Dam, Inks Lake, Lake LBJ, Lake Marble Falls, Lake Austin, Lake Brownwood, Proctor Lake, Lake Waco, Lake Whitney, Lady Bird Lake

North Texas-Lake Bridgeport, Eagle Mountain Lake, Lake Worth, Possum Kingdom Lake (my favorite), Lake Granbury....gosh i spent many years fishin' up there! miss it!