Impressing the wife

[dyer_wolf]

So my wife and I will be camping at Galveston state park later this week for our anniversary. I originally planned to take her down to san luis pass, but am now thinking about just fishing from the beach directly in front of our campsite. does anybody here have any knowledge or experience fishing that small stretch of the beach? Would San Luis just be THAT much better to where we should pack up the campsite and drive down there? I will be taking my kayak and plan on paddling out some big bait on a rod I have set up for sharks, so I know san luis is good for that. Other than that, it will be pretty much just throwing a bunch of live shrimp and cut bait and chilling from the beach. I will end up doing some wade as well, but the wife is too afraid of sharks lol... But I also had another idea.. I thought about just fishing west bay right there above our campsite, (oak bayou, carancahua cove area).. it would have to be either wade, or a short distance on the kayak. (my wife has a small kayak, and is a small woman, so im going to tow her due to her having surgery a month ago and not fully being a bale to paddle herself).... what would you guys do to help your ladies catch some fish and make the anniversary trip memorable? Thanks for your time

[Robalo]

Fish the surf and coves in the bay behind the state park-watch the weather!!

They're dredging behind the park-big pipes and blowing mud-I'd stay out of the coves behind the park.

[hacksaw]

I wouldn't think about wading San Luis. The currents this time of year, and especially with this weather, are too dangerous. I fish the North park in my Kayak and I've waded there too. You won't have to paddle too far to fish there. It's pretty protected fishing. Shallow too. Here's a map of the launch sites for yaks and canoeing. Tight Lines.

[dyer_wolf]

Awesome y'all thanks for the info. Definitely going to try North park

[planohog]

Fishing off the beach in front of GISP , can be productive. STLuis pass beach is very shallow and has unpredictable current.
I would run lines out early before the kids start playing in the water. Take a cheap rod out with you with dead shrimp.
Never know what you will catch while your big lines are soaking.

[bbquman]

Fish the surf and coves in the bay behind the state park-watch the weather!!

They're dredging behind the park-big pipes and blowing mud-I'd stay out of the coves behind the park.

Why are they dredging back there? Thks

[Robalo]

Why are they dredging back there? Thks

They are filling in marsh to help create more marsh-I think trying to restore what washed away from storms over the years. If you use Google Earth and go back in time, the land went a lot further out into the bay than it does now. The recently put a rock groin where the geotubes had been placed about 7 years ago and those tubes had sunk into the mud and were a navigation hazard especially to anyone that didn't know they were there since they sunk about 1' under the surface-now, with a rock groin sticking about 1-2' above the water, if ya hit the rock groin, you likely needed to die to improve the gene pool. Or were having a "Hold my beer and watch this" moment.

[TroutSupport]

Also, the end of the seawall is a good area.

[bbquman]

that was one of my spots I was going to try for tagged red, but I guess I need to move
north