Bite Me - A Texas Saltwater Fishing Podcast

*Scott lends a search-and-rescue hand in Comfort

*A Bite Me podcast love story

*Dean and Caleb cut through the greed and misinformation endangering Baffin Bay

*Salinity dilution and sedimentation a threat post-Hill Country floods?

*A full moon AND one tide this week. What to do.

• This week's "Three Ws": Where the Captains were. What they did. And what they noticed.
• If you don't think the right braid and leader matter, listen here
• Dumping the Bite Me inbox: Handling deeply hooked fish. Best lenses for inshore vs. offshore. Superstitions. Weird things clients kept in the box. And securing your boat when traveling.

* A Feeding Frenzy RSVP and raffle update: The big-time items keep rolling in.

* Capt. Dean with a Confession.

* Major update on Oyster Buyback program.

* Holding onto your favorite gear way too long.

* What to know on the flounder lifecycle.

* A tagged redfish released live on the podcast has been caught! And some anglers that feel very dumb

* A "sound" approach

* What we can learn from the life cycles of redfish, trout and tarpon

* Making the most of bad conditions -- and not just weather conditions

* It's surf fishing time. What to look for, when to go shallow vs. the third bar and what to throw

* What inshore anglers should know when targeting red snapper

* "New color, who dis?"

* Pedal vs. paddle? Marketing trends. Finding what fits you best.

* Everything you should know about making the most of your kayaking experience -- and catching fish.

* And did things get a little salty?

* Hello, summer. What now?

* Why coveting schooling redfish is imperative

* Are trout limits already leading to bigger fish?

* What and where to throw as temperatures heat up

* WWSD? WWDD?

* About $200,000 worth of tagged redfish you could catch released live on this podcast

* HUGE announcement about the Feeding Frenzy raffle item

* The most impressive fishing tournament performance you've ever seen or had

* Avoiding "decision paralysis" trying to find 'em

The Bite Me Captains take a deep-dive into everything you need to know when coming across tailing redfish.

* From how to approach, where to cast, making the most of the opportunity and making adjustments

* What to do and, more important, what not to do

* Plus, rod-tip storytime and WWSD, WWCD, WWDD as May winds and temps change.

* Feeding Frenzy dates set ... and a live tagged redfish release live on Bite Me

* That time a fly tea-bagged Dean.

* You don't know what you don't know, personified.

* What was that? Spooking fish from a kayak

* WWSD? WWCD? WWDD? 

* What they say isn't always right

* Has the need for speed gone too far on the water

* Common denominators for finding fish near shorelines vs. the open bay

* WWSD WWCD WWDD

+ High winds and you're on the windward side

+ Wading in chest-deep water

+ Super-fast tides

+ Dead calm and every noise is amplified

+ When they're catching and you're not

* Plus, best approach in vast grass flats

* Things guides say during a slow bite

Great insight and fun insight from the Bite Me captains on:

*Factors affecting habitat and fishability

*Water flow, salinity levels and seagrass restoration

*What desalination plants are doing to Gulf bays

*Drunks on the boat? We've got stories

*Best approach to "beat the crowd"

+ Thoughts and takeaways

+ Eye-opening details and repercussions

+ How to handle similar events

+ Did Capt. Dean really take a angry fisherman on a 14-mile adventure?

• Caleb addresses running in skinny water, content creators and misconceptions.
• WWSD? WWCD? WWDD?

* Explaining Bathymetric Data and how it can be a game-changer for inshore and offshore approaches

* How to use -- and not use -- shallow-running boats

* Best crossover lures from freshwater to saltwater

* How CCA dollars are being allocated

* How bay boats these days are just built different ... behind the science and engineering

* Not all moon and post-front conditions are the same, especially this time of year.

* Lots of rain coming. How it affects different bays

* Grim reminders how dangerous can be

* So much for disbanding TPWD

* WWSD? WWCD? WWDD?

*Will the oyster license buyback program work?

*What Texas bay systems could look like if even 25-percent come back

*If you could only have one: Power Pole/Spot lock ... Starlink/VHS ... Light bar/deck lighting

*WWSD? WWCD? WWDD?

* Do some state records deserve asterisks?

* The record most likely to fall next

* Don't tell grandpa ... age-old lessons that may or may not stand the test of time

* Plus, if it sounds as if your host is coming out of his skin, there's a reason for that

• Dean may or may not have been on a pain-killer high throughout
• Using AI on the water … fair or foul?
• How to put the odds in your favor when you’ve been off the water a while
• Detailed, in-depth strategies for “fishing the river.”
• WWSD? WWCD? WIDGTGF? (When is Dean going to go fishing?)