Galveston fishing report

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It’s another great day to be on the water with light-to-moderate southerly winds bringing in fresh, clear Gulf waters.

Based on the few inshore fishing reports that were in by late Sunday afternoon, the jetties were the place to fish.

Both the North and South jetties produced some nice fish; however, the number of speckled trout was disappointing to most anglers fishing the rocks.

Offshore, lots of seaweed continue to bundle up in the Gulf and most likely will eventually hit the beaches along the Upper Texas Coast this week.

While that is not good news to many anglers, there is some welcomed news for the offshore crowd — more and more Dorado are being found along the weed patches.

While most of the Dorado, or dolphin fish as they are also called, are normally caught from mid-June through September, the early arrivals obviously followed the fields of seaweed to the near Gulf waters this year.

For the second day in a row, Patrick Lemire, spokesperson for Williams’ Party Boats, reported huge patches of the popular shelter-and-shade for fish offshore. Saturday during a trip to the ship reef V.A. Fogg, the party boat Capt. John encountered chicken dolphin around a huge weed clump and five were landed by the boat’s customers.

Limits of red snapper along with kings and sharks also were caught.

Inshore, Dean Silvers reported some good action at the jetties where trout-green water produced bull reds, black drum, sheepshead and Spanish mackerel.

Frank Helton and Rob Schwartz found good action on Spanish mackerel, sheepshead, jack crevalle and stingrays on the Gulf side of the North Jetty near the rock pile. Live shrimp was the bait.

Night fishing continues to produce good numbers of specks, especially during the last three hours before daybreak. Peter Hendricks of Jamaica Beach was out of bed early to prepare for friends to meet him at his dock and do some early-morning wade fishing behind Galveston Island State Park.

 When Hendricks arrived at his boat dock, he observed a huge school of reds around a neighbor’s underwater green light and immediately tossed out a Super Spook in their direction.

A 26-inch red hit the lure and was landed after a battle. The commotion of the fight caused the other fish to scatter. Hendricks did not say how the wade fishing trip turned out.

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