Fishing stuff on Galveston Island

Saturday afternoon, the high tide action busted wide open in the surf and carried over to the bays.Whether this was a prefrontal bite or just a situation where all of the right elements came together at the same time is anyone’s guess.The bottom line is that for a few hours before the arrival of Saturday night’s stormy weather lots of quality fish were caught.

Bulldog’s Bait Shop reported several customers telling of action breaking open along the beach front around 5 p.m. which was in and around the afternoon high tide.

Large bull reds were in a feeding frenzy along with gafftop well above average in size. Other fish reported caught were black drum, sharks and jack crevalle.

The causeway bridge produced a nice stringer of big “yellow mouth” speckled trout for Brandon Walker who used live shrimp and small finfish to take his eight fish. Walker estimated the largest trout to weigh close to 7 pounds and was just over 25 inches long.Two other post-25-inch trout were caught and released.

Farther down Galveston Island at Jamaica Beach, Dean Silvers found prolific action in West Bay before the bad weather came through Saturday night.Silvers had a Texas Grand Slam that consisted of nine reds, all released, three trout and an 18-inch flounder.

Action was not limited to the inshore waters Saturday,found hot action offshore for the Fishing approximately 20 miles offshore and using cigar minnows for bait, the anglers caught 10 kings to 30 pounds, 39 red snapper to 21 pounds (all released) and a lone ling.