Have you ever had one of those weeks where all the days seem to blur into one another? You lose track of what day it is, either one day back or one day forward. It happened to me this week. I mistakenly stated that I fished on Thursday when I actually fished on Friday. I just wanted to correct that mistake.
On Saturday I was supposed to go fishing with the manager of Eagle Point Eric Valentino and his 8-year-old son Gray. At sunrise the northeast wind came up and Eric and I decided to wait for a better day. In other words, we didn’t want to exhaust ourselves by boating across the open bay.
Gray decided to go fishing in the harbor on his own. He had set out to catch this 6-foot pike that feels at home in the harbor basin. And sure enough, around midday, Gray caught the “big old” pike and released it again!
Bink Grimes of Matagorda Sunset Lodge reported that they have had great success wading over sand and grass. He said, “The trout are biting really well on Super Spook Jr. Those drifting over mussels in the open bay are catching a decent number of trout on Gulps fished under a Mid Coast Cork. The redfish have been working on the rocks by the jetty.”
Chris Williams and one of his buddies ventured to the Galveston piers. They had, as Williams put it, “non-stop action this morning.” These two anglers quickly caught their limit of brown trout and then went looking for redfish. They found the redfish, but they were all oversized. Williams said, “That was a fun problem on light tackle.”
If you are looking for an inexpensive way to get out into the offshore waters to photograph at the end of snapper season, I highly recommend the Galveston Party Boats. Captain. Danny aboard the New Buccaneer, the boat’s anglers have had some impressive catches of red snapper. They also have a bay fishing boat, the Cavalier, where you can book a four-hour trip to catch sharks, red snapper and other species.
