The weather forecast Tuesday evening was not encouraging for fishing for the next couple of days, as the strongest cold front of the season will be passing through.
Gale-force winds and temperatures in the low to mid-40s will keep anglers off of the bays; however, there is a bright side to this.
After the front passes, fall fishing and the flounder run are going to head toward their peaks for this year. In regard to this cold front, Guide Service, sent this note from his fishing diary.
“Thirty years ago on Nov. 12, 1983, a cold front swept across the Upper Texas Coast. That cold front triggered one of the greatest trout movements of modern times which lasted until the fish killing freeze on Christmas Eve of 1983.”
Williams said the time span of 42 days, in periods of fishable weather, might have produced the best wade fishing for trophy trout that ever took place in the Galveston Bay Complex by fishermen using artificial lures.
Last weekend, the party boat New Buccaneer made a 30-hour safari/tuna trip. Leaving dock on Saturday with 49 anglers aboard, Capts. Matt Smith and Chris Minardi headed for the Hoover-Diana Spar Rigs, where they had their guests fishing for both bottom and pelagic fish.
They returned Sunday with a catch that included 286 large vermilion snapper, 202 blackfin tuna, eight yellowfins, four amberjacks, five almaco jack, three barracuda, two Warsaws, two yellow edge grouper, seven scamps, a 20-pound king and a 40-pound Dorado.
Again this year, flounder fishermen are complaining about illegal size and bag limits being taken by their peers. Before November, it was mostly undersized flounder that were observed being retained and since Nov. 1, it has been both undersized fish and exceeding the two-fish bag limit.
While we are always interested in hearing from readers, for game violations the Texas Parks and Wildlife Game Thief Hotline should be called. That number is 800-792-4263. I recommend having that number on your cell phone contacts.
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