Fishing 4-14-13

The fish are here, and when the weather cooperates like it did Friday, outstanding results are waiting for anglers who time their trips to windows of light winds and green water.
Friday’s near perfect conditions gave rise to a lot of optimism for the weekend, as forecasts were calling for tolerable winds. Unfortunately, the pattern for this time of year repeated itself and a nagging and gusty east wind greeted fishermen Saturday.

Now, back to Friday and all of the hot action that took place. Glenn Goff, Galveston Bait and Tackle, called in and said his bait camp was “Trout City” on Friday. Every boat that returned to the fish-cleaning table had limits of trout and a variety of other fish.

Trout to 28 inches were common, and some of the biggest fish of the year were being filleted. Action was good all day, and both the incoming and outgoing tides produced fish.

Among the anglers enjoying one of those windows of great fishing was Don Knapp, who, along with a friend, took two limits of trout to five pound from near the causeway bridge. Live shrimp fished under a popping cork was the bait of choice.

Luis Decker, Aunt Margie’s Bait Camp, reported customer Donald Tansey’s 23-inch trout caught in West Bay.

With light winds and green water around the jetties, action busted wide open in that area as well. Sarah Melcer and her husband, Stephen, fished Abby’s Hole on Friday afternoon and landed 15 gafftop, two bull sharks and a bull red. Only the gafftop were retained.

Those of you who know Sarah are well aware that the target she aims for is gafftop.

Fishing the North Jetty was Samantha and Brandon Yates of Conroe, who both landed bull reds.

Keep your rods and reels ready for action, as there is going to be some excellent fishing during the next break in the weather.