Capt. Fern Gonzales was wade-fishing in shin-deep water in East Matagorda Bay with the intention of targeting redfish when he hooked up with a hefty speckled trout. The speck ended up having a tag in it from the Trout Tagging Texas program, which revealed that it had traveled more than 25 miles from where it
Trout Tagging Texas is actively tagging and releasing speckled trout caught along the Texas coast in order to study their migration patterns and behavior.