Galveston Fishing Report

Galveston Fishing Charter Company

832-917-FISH(3474)

www.galvestonfishingchartercompany.com

Recently several readers called or sent notes asking about reports from Sarah Melcer.

We had not heard from her in months and attempts to contact her were not successful.

I am glad to report that Sarah is now back on the water and fishing at her favorite spot at the South Jetty.

Sarah said her better half had shoulder surgery in early July and could not captain their boat so it was a dry spell until last Wednesday when they returned to action.

Sarah, who is well known as one of the best gafftop anglers around, did not catch any Wednesday; however, after she gets back in practice, gafftop better start hiding.

Her trip did produce a bull shark over 3 feet long along with four hardheads, a croaker and a sand trout.

For years, Melcer and her famous fishing dog Abby turned in numerous reports of their success at the jetties.

In Abby’s honor, she named their favorite fishing hole at the end of the South Jetty after her dog. Their favorite spot is now Abby’s Hole.

In other fishing news, the surf was alive with action Thursday morning with jack crevalle tearing up tackle all along the beach front. Dizzie Green, Galveston Fishing Pier, reported hot action on the jacks early Thursday.

Fred Taylor had a large jack spool his reel while fishing the rock groins across from Academy.

Before losing all of his fishing line, Taylor had three nice Spanish mackerel and a 16-inch sheepshead on his stringer.

Richard Belleau, 61st Street Fishing Pier, reported excellent fishing under the full moon Wednesday night.

His 2 a.m. report told of croaker, sand trout, bull reds, gafftop, blacktip sharks and Spanish mackerel being caught by his customers.

It appears that conditions will be excellent for fishing in the early part of this weekend; however, Sunday is plagued with a good probability of rain.