GALVESTON FISHING

Tuesday was a great day all around. Fishing conditions were near perfect, and Washington Park got the jump start needed to start the ball to rolling.

The first part of the day, I had the pleasure of fishing with three fantastic lady anglers — Elizabeth Kinsey, Rebecca Soots and Sherry Quire joined me for a morning of fishing the jetties. Conditions were just about as good as they get, with trout, reds, flounder, pompano, ladyfish and, of course, hardheads taking our baits. Kinsey was the only one to end up with a Texas Grand Slam.

At 4 p.m., I attended the formal presentation of the Galveston Rotary Club’s $100,000 donation to the city of Galveston for use in rebuilding Washington Park. The ceremony was attended by city dignitaries and a group of supporters of the project. My hat’s off to the Rotarians for making this their centennial project.

In other fishing news, Capt. James Plaag, Silver King Adventures, placed his guests into limits of trout to 6 pounds while fishing deep shell under balls of shad. Red Bass Assassins and She Dogs were the baits.

 A group from Oklahoma and Utah to a productive trip to the jetties Tuesday. Their catch included bull reds and sharks to seven feet in length. Cut mullet was the bait.

While fishing the South Jetty with my guests, we passed Sarah Melcer and her captain anchored at the end of the jetty battling a bull shark. They ended up with six bull sharks and nine gafftop using squid for bait. The sharks were released.

Richard Belleau, 61st Street Fishing Pier, reported catches of whiting, gafftop, slot reds, bull reds, black drum and speckled trout.

The CCA-Texas STAR Fishing Tournament is underway and so far, two tagged reds have been confirmed caught. Both fish came from the Upper Texas Coast.