The southwest wind raised its ugly head Tuesday and changed what had been some excellent conditions for fishing.
Early Tuesday, the winds were tolerable for hitting the water, and my fraternity brother from Henderson, Jack Powers, his wife Peggi, son Scott and four grandchildren joined me for a morning of fishing. Our first stop was the cedars along Pelican Island where we picked up several specks, a mangrove snapper and three yellow jacks.
The wind picked up as we headed to the jetties, and the westerly wind was too much to try to anchor along the channel side of the North Jetty. We settled at the rock pile on the Gulf side and finished our trip with a good catch of quality sand trout, whiting and six good-sized ribbon fish I retained for future offshore bait.
Monday, Dean Chiles of Bayou Vista had a good day of fishing with Brian Pratt and Bob Griffin of Lewisville. They fished near the Galveston Ship Channel and landed eight specks to 5 pounds, sand trout and sharks and hooked a large bull red that eventually won the battle. The action came in 7 to 10 feet of water using Saltwater Assassins and live croaker.
Richard Belleau reported catches of whiting, gafftop and croaker from the 61st Street Fishing Pier in what he described as slow fishing early Tuesday.
Galveston’s party boat operations are making the most of the hot action offshore and running frequent trips between now and Labor Day. Monday, both groups were offshore and here is what they brought back.
The New Buccaneer’s catch from its 65-mile trip included 226 vermilions, nine kings, an amberjack, ling, five sharks — including a 225-pound bull shark — tomtate, triggerfish and others.
The Capt. John’s 25-mile trip resulted in 524 spadefish, 36 sharks, Gulf trout, lane snapper and a stingray.
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