I grew up just across the bay in Texas City. It's been a long time, but there used to be an quarantine station on Pelican Island, and close to that, on the Ship Channel side, their is a long flat we used to wade for speckle trout, drift live shrimp weightless, and a lot of time they would come to surface running from trout, and it would be like a topwater bite. Spent many a childhood summer days there, and ate a lot of specks.