b'Coastal Bend Tour GuideShore Fishingon our islands is plen-tiful and accessible from dozens of loca-tions. Bob Hall Pier is located at the Nueces County Padre Balli Park, south of the ho-tels and condos, and is the site of severalHorses on the Beachrecord catches.brings visitors a most memorable The Packery Channel Jetties offer free, directand exciting experiencehorse-back riding on our beautiful access to a hot zone of fish migration between theNorth Padre Island beaches! Gulf of Mexico and Laguna Madre. HorsesOnTheBeachCorpus.comFeeling Lucky?Just pull over and start fishing!For lucky Coastal Bend residents, itsRedfish, Speckled Trout and Flounder. easy to take for granted the fact thatContinue on the low side of the cause-we are surrounded, quite literally, byway toward the island for easy wade saltwater. Aside from the Gulf of Mexico,fishing access to Laguna Madre.our bays and estuaries provide some veryPackery ChannelFrom Padre Island, fertile fishing waters, some of the bestturn north on Highway 361 toward Port in the state of Texas, which are virtuallyAransas. You will see the Packery Channel all accessible to the public. Some of theBridge and easy parking areas on both best Fall fishing spotssides of the bridge that are located on, and onprovide direct access the way to, North Padreto this very busy route and Mustang Islands. for migrating fish For easy reference, seebetween the Gulf of Upper Laguna MadreMexico, Laguna Madre Fishing Map in back. JFKand Corpus Christi Bay. CausewayThis is theMustang Island State over water highwayParkFarther north on from mainland CorpusHighway 361 you will Christi (Flour Bluff) to North Padre Island.see state park structures on the ocean Take the low road exit before the curveside, but you will also see unpaved access at Humble Channel, which is straddledroads on the west side of the highway, by Cos-Way and Red Dot bait stands,which lead you to productive wade fish-both with fishing piers that run alonging along the back side of the island, in the channel, a major migration route forCorpus Christi Bay.90 THE COASTAL BEND MAGAZINEFall 2019 TheCoastalBend.com'