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Lower Galveston Bay -- 08/04/13
The deep water from Galveston Causeway to Pelican Island has been holding some quality fish. The past week, I caught some good fish including trout to 7 lbs, redfish to 10 lbs, and flounder to 4.5 lbs.
Here are a few pictures highlighting my big catches...
So, I went back out there today. Only difference was much weaker tides.
Started fishing for flounder around 10:00 AM during the weak outgoing tide. The area consisted of a gradual drop off from a water depth of 6 feet to 12 feet, with mostly mud bottom and some hard structure in a few spots. Kept hopping the Gulp pogy slowly down this drop off and caught and released 5 nice flounder.
The water clarity was 2+ feet, and the flounder were making their presence known very quickly. A couple of the fish hit the lure before it even touched the bottom. The others pounced on the lure within the first couple hops. With water visibility 2+ feet, there's no need to repeatedly fan cast the same general area. The fish will chase down the bait. The first couple retrieves should indicate whether or not fish are holding in the area.
The bite slowed down around 11:00 AM with the slack tide, but I managed to catch and release one last flounder out this spot, around 6 lbs.
Around noon, I moved to target redfish in a water depth of 15 feet and anchored along a bulkhead with lots of bottom structure. Vertical jigging the Gulp was a must with all the structure down there. The bottom was covered mostly with riprap or some other kind of concrete. First drop and a 28.5" redfish nailed the Gulp.
This spot was loaded with tackle busting redfish. All of the fish were slightly oversized ranging from 28.5" to 30". Had 5 fish run and break me off in the rocks, but did manage to catch and release 4 oversized reds.
Here are a few more pics...
Around 2 PM the bite completely shut off and I called it quits due to the heat.
I'm noticing that the best bite for the bigger fish seems to be during the hottest part of day. Those big fish love to lurk near some shade...
Here are a few pictures highlighting my big catches...
So, I went back out there today. Only difference was much weaker tides.
Started fishing for flounder around 10:00 AM during the weak outgoing tide. The area consisted of a gradual drop off from a water depth of 6 feet to 12 feet, with mostly mud bottom and some hard structure in a few spots. Kept hopping the Gulp pogy slowly down this drop off and caught and released 5 nice flounder.
The water clarity was 2+ feet, and the flounder were making their presence known very quickly. A couple of the fish hit the lure before it even touched the bottom. The others pounced on the lure within the first couple hops. With water visibility 2+ feet, there's no need to repeatedly fan cast the same general area. The fish will chase down the bait. The first couple retrieves should indicate whether or not fish are holding in the area.
The bite slowed down around 11:00 AM with the slack tide, but I managed to catch and release one last flounder out this spot, around 6 lbs.
Around noon, I moved to target redfish in a water depth of 15 feet and anchored along a bulkhead with lots of bottom structure. Vertical jigging the Gulp was a must with all the structure down there. The bottom was covered mostly with riprap or some other kind of concrete. First drop and a 28.5" redfish nailed the Gulp.
This spot was loaded with tackle busting redfish. All of the fish were slightly oversized ranging from 28.5" to 30". Had 5 fish run and break me off in the rocks, but did manage to catch and release 4 oversized reds.
Here are a few more pics...
Around 2 PM the bite completely shut off and I called it quits due to the heat.
I'm noticing that the best bite for the bigger fish seems to be during the hottest part of day. Those big fish love to lurk near some shade...
LIVIN THE SALT LIFE 
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