Bite Me - A Texas Saltwater Fishing Podcast

Bite Me - A Texas Saltwater Fishing Podcast

The next best thing to being on the water is listening to the Bite Me podcast. Hosted by longtime Texas saltwater fishing legends John Lopez, with Capts. Scott Null, Dean Thomas and Caleb McCumber, it offers the best in inshore and offshore saltwater fishing insight.

Episodes

July 22, 2025 68 mins

* Game-changing products shaping the industry

* Affecting tone-deaf desalination strategies

* How bad days can push you to a new level

* Water temps affecting topwater strategies

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*What happens when the Bite Me crew's significant others decide to enter a tournament

*A heart-wrenching, inspiring and important update from the Hill Country from Capt. Scott

*Isabel Tiller from the Sportfish Center at the Harte Research Institute shares fascinating insight on Texas tarpon and snook

*WWSD? WWDD? WWCD?

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*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.

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  • 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.
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* 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.

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* 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

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* 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?"

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* 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?

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* 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?

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* 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

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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.

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* 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? 

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* 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

 

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+ 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

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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"

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+ 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?
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* 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

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* 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?

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*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?

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* 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

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