Best lure in this area of surf will be a 1/2-ounce silver spoon with a pink or yellow teaser on the treble. That lure can be cast a country mile and cover lots of water. That's important if you're into wading. What I normally do is find the baitfish, and then slip the anchor feed-out rope until I'm within casting distance of the area to be fished. That way I stay high and dry and can easily cover all the hotspots in the surf, like boat wreck reefs and the deeper washed-out guts.

Just inside of Pass Cavallo is an area known as the J Hook. It runs into a big body of water. This is one of my top spots for catching both trout and reds during May. It offers clear-water flats adjacent to 5 to 8 feet of wide-open water. I run a Maverick HPX. That's a shallow-running polling skiff that allows me to access very shallow flats. And that's where you can sight-cast to both trout and reds. Talk about fun, that's it.

Jetty fishing at Port O'Connor is excellent. I've caught thousands of trout along the rocks at POC's deepwater jetties. The trick to locating trout is to find irregular rock formations in 20 to 30 feet of water. That's where your electronics come into play. That type of rock formation causes upwelling currents that hold baitfish and, in turn, schools of hungry trout.

I love to fish the jetties anywhere along the Texas Coast. The best that I've fished are at Sabine, Galveston, Freeport and Port O'Connor. They offer the most consistent fishing for both trout and reds during May.

The Sabine jetties are located on the Texas/Louisiana border. That's kind of a quirky place to fish because the east jetty usually holds the best water and numbers of fish. The Louisiana side of the east jetty is the most popular place to fish, but to do that you'll need to purchase a non-resident Louisiana saltwater fishing license. The channel side of the east jetty is considered to be Texas water.

On any given day with a green tide, fishing along the Sabine jetties can be fantastic. My favorite way to fish them is with a Super Spook or She Dog in either bone or chartreuse color. The water along the Sabine jetties is fairly shallow up close to the rocks. That's why the topwater bite can be so good.

Another very good lure is a Heddon Swim'N Image. This is a 3-inch-long shallow-running crankbait that's deadly on both trout and reds along the Sabine rocks. Believe it or not, the speckled trout color pattern is best. It looks just like a trout fingerling. What makes this lure so good is that it demonstrates a super-tight wobble. You can fish it up against the rocks or away from them where the water drops to anywhere from 5 to 8 feet deep. Even when the water along the rocks is a bit sandy, this particular vibrating crankbait will lure 'em in.