The surf is beginning to shape up for some excellent fishing especially if the light northerly winds continue. While there were no surf reports in by press time on Monday, there should be some nice catches reported in coming days.
The only surf report came late Sunday night when the 61st Street Fishing Pier reported lots of crabs being caught along with croaker, sand trout, bull reds and sharks.
It is about time to see
the annual spawning of crabs in the surf and this might be an indication
of the beginnings of the spawn. Normally during that event, crabs,
mostly female, are everywhere in the surf and those of you fishing the
crab spawn for the first time need to be aware that sponge crab, those
with orange colored eggs resembling a sponge attached, are to be
immediately released.
Sunday Jeff Moyer, Stan Shoemake, Brian Griffin, Randy Robertson, Scott Robertson and Don Raines.
They fished the Galveston Bay Complex using frozen menhaden and fresh
sand trout landing bull reds, sharks, sand trout and whiting.
Capt. Bryan Brawner’s weekly East Bay Update from Crystal Beach indicates that last week’s west wind had the water rough and dirty.
“When the winds died some
and the water conditions improved, the bite was on. However, the strong
winds for the most part kept East Bay rough and dirty which made
finding a steady bite challenging most days. Thursday was the best day
when we limited early then went and scouted some different areas where
we caught and released fish all morning. We have been landing lots of
nice specks up to 25 inches in the dirty water.”
“Most of our fish are
being caught on free lined croaker over shell reefs but the bite on soft
plastics is definitely improving each day.”
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