EPISODE 114 – Texas Gulf Fish Hunter | Content Creator and Fishing Guide
Brandon, known online as Texas Gulf Fish Hunter, moved to Corpus Christi from the mountains of Appalachia — nearest Walmart was 45 minutes away — and fell in love with the coast. He's been here two years and is still finding spots he's driven past without noticing. He says if you're talking bad about Corpus, you haven't been anywhere close to where he came from.
He started going live on TikTok just to see what would happen. It blew up immediately and never stopped. His whole channel is shot first-person — just his hands, his gear, and the water — so his viewers recognize him by his hands and, notably, his painted nails. That's actually how his partnership with RNG Bait in Flower Bluff started: the manager recognized his hands when he walked in one day to buy live shrimp and reached out that night.
He makes his own fishing leaders by hand — fluorocarbon rigs with barrel swivels, refined down to an exact recipe he won't share — and they're now for sale at RNG Bait. He calls days spent tying rigs and cleaning gear his maintenance days.
Every Friday around 4PM he drops a fishing forecast on TikTok: where the fish should be, what they should be eating, and why — based on barometric pressure, moon phase, water temperature, species spawn cycles, and a handful of other conditions he tracks throughout the week. He thinks of it like a math equation with a lot of moving parts.
On this episode of the Corpus Christi Originals Podcast, they talk about the difference between freshwater and saltwater fishing, why he gives away information most fishermen keep secret, the Bob Hall Pier reopening, fishing regulations and conservation, the drone fishing ban, the desalination plant debate, and what it takes to catch fish consistently on the Texas Gulf Coast.
Find Brandon on TikTok at @TexasGulfFishHunter. Fishing forecast every Friday around 4PM. Leaders available at RNG Bait in Flower Bluff.
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