Now that most of the Christmas celebrations are winding down, let’s once again turn our attention to fishing.
The cold weather helped keep anglers at home enjoying holiday activities, and those of us that have been off of the water for a while are yearning to get back in the saddle, or better, rod and reel in hand.
Prior to the Christmas Eve and Christmas Day lull, flounder were continuing their journey to the Gulf and hitting baits along the way. The average size of the flatfish was larger than those taken earlier in the month indicating that the larger females are on the road.
Jimbo Van Ness and his nephew Jeff Smith made a nice haul of flounder from 17 to 23 inches in length from the Galveston Ship Channel on Monday.
Jackie Hart and his father-in-law Mel Greenburg fished the Intracoastal Canal near the entrance to Bolivar and landed four large flounder last Sunday. Gulps were the baits that worked.
While flounder might be a possibility for post-Christmas anglers, sand trout, and large ones at that, have been hitting all around the area.
The Pelican Island Bridge is often a hot spot for the popular pan fish and during the weekend Tony Hampton and Mike Bellows proved that the sand trout are stacking up in the area. While targeting flounder with Curly Tail Gulps, the anglers from Dickinson landed 18 sand trout to 14 inches. One 19-inch flounder was the lone flatfish added to their stringer.
Hampton said that they ran through three packages of Gulps as the trout tend to like to pull the curly tail off.
Jose Aceves and his brother Mike fished near the mouth of Dickinson Bayou on Sunday afternoon and caught 14 sand trout to 18 inches, a 25-inch red and an 18-inch flounder using Gulps and dead shrimp for bait.
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