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IIama,
First of all, congratulations on your 210. You'll love it. I've had one since 2004 and it still makes my heart go pitter-patter when you throttle up and head out. I was in Corpus Christi for a few years, unfortunately that was before I got back into fishing, so I don't have any local help for you except to check on any local fishing forum that you can read up on the advice of fisherman in your area. People generally are willing to share how-to's, but not necessarily the where-at's (such as GPS spots).
Getting to your original question, the equipment you need will depend on what you're primarily fishing for. For my setup over here on the east side of the gulf, for bottom fishing I use Penn 4/0's spooled with 80lb camo monofiliament line, 7/0 kahle hook, 6 oz-8 oz egg sinker. For trolling, I use an old Penn GT level-wind on a beef stick rod spooled with 65 lb. spider wire braid, with 80 lb fluoro leader. For trolling, I hook up a Mann's Stretch 25 for depths of 25-35 ft and a Stretch 30 for depths of 45-60 ft. They're killers on grouper and kings. I have a couple of Abu Garcia Ambassador reels spooled with 35 lb spider wire braid with 30 lb fluoro leader. Put a 4 in. drone or clark spoon and you're ready for some spanish mack action. Keep a medium weight spinning rod handy ready to hook up a live pinfish to toss at a cobia.
There's a laundry list of must-haves that are too numerous to recall, but I'd recommend you cover the Coast Guard requirements first: Type I life preservers for everybody on board, fire extinguisher, sound device (air horn). Also GPS, bottom machine, vhf, backup handheld gps, epirb (that you hope you never use), a strong pair of bolt cutters for removing hooks embedded in hand or other body parts from the Stretch baits previously mentioned (personal experience 3 times), FLOAT PLAN left with somebody who will call and report if you don't check in, empty bucket (a/k/a plastic throne), ball bat for subduing uncooperative fishes, buoy markers (cheap ones work fine).
Best of luck and go catch 'em up.
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