The big catch of the day came from Lake Madeline where a 6-foot, 100-pound alligator gar was caught by H.J. Stubbs and Dillon Langreder. Recently, there have been reports of several huge gar hanging around lights in the water, and apparently a large concentration of pin fish and shad are attracting the big fish.
October is starting off with good fishing both inshore and in the offshore Gulf Waters.
The opening day of the two-week bonus season for red snapper was a success, as Galveston’s two major party boat operations, Williams Party Boats and Galveston Party Boats, had their flagships out and both returned with full limits of red snapper Tuesday.
The Capt. John made a 43-mile trip with 41 anglers aboard and ended up with sharks, sand trout, spadefish, blue runners, gafftop and stingrays in addition to their limit of red snapper. Undersized ling and blacktip shark were caught and released.
The New Buccaneer carried 59 anglers out and returned with their limit of red snapper along with sharks, trigger fish, vermilions and king mackerel.
On the inshore scene, Polly and I headed out Wednesday morning and found the flounder running.
The wind was more than we wanted to deal with at the jetties, so we chose the Bolivar Gas Wells and Galveston Ship Channel as the spots to fish.
Two flounder were taken at one of the Bolivar wells and, except for a huge stingray, nothing else was biting. Along the Galveston Ship Channel things were different as we managed a Texas Grand Slam in addition to other fish caught. At one spot near Seawolf Park, I caught and released an approximate 2-pound grouper. This was the first time I have caught a grouper outside of deep Gulf waters.
Our tally for the day was four flounder to 22 inches, three specks, a slot red, nine mangrove snapper, three retained and six released, and a bunch of sand trout that were released. The water was in excellent shape all around the area.
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