Galveston fishing report

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August is ending on a sour note as far as fishing is concerned.

While there will be a few more weeks of warm weather, our summertime fishing patterns are beginning to wind down.

With the lack of fishing reports Saturday, let’s take a look at how this summer has been so far on the fishing scene.

If you ask anglers about their results this summer, the answer would vary greatly between the offshore fisherman and his inshore counterpart.

The summer of 2014 was excellent for offshore fishing. Both near shore (up to 12 miles out) and the typical offshore (beyond 12 miles) anglers had mostly outstanding fishing.

There have been a good crop of king mackerel along with numerous ling taken from both stretches of water.

Recreational red snapper fishing was almost nonexistent for private boats as the shortest season so far was imposed.

The prolific action on kings and other offshore fish should continue until the first cool front crosses the Texas Coast, normally by mid-September.

On the inshore scene, the word was seaweed. Heavy masses of seaweed hindered wade fishermen in the surf and those fishing off the piers and rock groins.

Trout action overall was quite disappointing. While some nice trout were caught, the overall numbers were down from earlier years. Reds and other fish took up the slack, however.

Most of the summer, drought conditions prevailed, which caused salinity levels in the bays to increase and no doubt that was one factor contributing to poorer trout fishing.

Speckled trout are one of the more sensitive fish to water temperature and salinity levels.

In recent years, there have been increasing numbers of mangrove snapper caught inshore; however, fishing reports this summer did not reflect a continuation of that trend.

Most other fish including black drum, sheepshead, Spanish mackerel and red fish held their own. Crabbing had one of its better summers recently.