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Today ends March, one of the coldest on record. Now, what about April?
We are entering April behind schedule for the arrival of fish that should be here by now.
The culprit is the lagging water temperature that we discussed last week.
Warmer weather is on the way, which is good news; however, the bad news is that April is the windiest month of the year along the Texas Gulf Coast.
This year it appears that April will be living up to its reputation, as moderate to strong winds off the Gulf are in the forecast.
Most years, there are windows of fishable conditions when the wind velocities fall for a short time.
During those periods, some excellent fishing takes place.
The jetties in particular attract a lot of the arriving fish and some of the largest speckled trout of the year are caught around the rocks.
Last weekend, night fishing offered some of the best catches, as reports indicated speckled trout, reds and flounder all were being attracted to the lights along with small bait fish.
Mike Howard and Roger Ironstone fished the lights of a canal near Crystal Beach and landed three slot reds and two specks weighing more than 4 pounds each. Live shrimp was the bait.
David Huber, Robert Foster and Brad Ford fished around their underwater green light on Highland Bayou and landed five flounder and two reds, both just less than 20 inches and released.
Ford said that the minnows were thick around the light and the flounder and reds were feeding on them.
Galveston Party Boats’ New Buccaneer is back in service after maintenance and upgrades. Saturday, the party boat made a 70-mile offshore trip with Capt. Matthew “Smitty” Smith at the helm.
The 12-hour trip resulted in 450 vermilions (B-liners), 10 lane snapper, four sharks, two amberjack and a mangrove snapper.
The group’s bay and Jetty boat, The Cavalier, has been returning with gafftop and reds.
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