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If there’s a more ideal place than Baffin Bay to spend the day fishing, Sally Black can’t name it. The 65-year-old veteran fishing guide feels she’s found the “last best place,” just 45 miles south of Corpus Christi. It’s hard to argue as we glide across the bay on her 23-foot-long power catamaran in late August. For long stretches of our four-hour tour, Black’s was the only boat on the glassy water—making it easy to spot the ripples pushed by broad-shouldered redfish in the shallow water and the little oil slicks left by schools of baitfish attacked by hungry sea trout. Silvery mullet, the trout’s favorite prey, jumped above the surface here and there, but only an occasional “drummer”–a commercial fisherman bringing in a haul of prized black drum—appeared as a tiny silhouette on the horiz