Galveston Fishing Report

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Near-gale force winds canceled out fishing on Monday; however, the cold front following behind should give fishing a shot in the arm.

Capt. Mike Williams, Tarpon Express Guide Service, fished Tarpon Alley last weekend and found lots of blacktip and spinner sharks in the area along with a few kings and ling; however, no tarpon were spotted. His group did land a 250-pound bull shark.

Williams feels that most of the tarpon have left; however, a few will continue to linger until the beach water temperature drops below 76 degrees.

Red fish activity in the bays has been picking up. Kim Doreck of Omega Bay caught a limit of slot reds while fishing Jones Lake Sunday morning. Jones Lake is noted for red fish; however, most of the fish caught there tend to be undersized,

Greg Hagerud fished the East End Surf Sunday and found redfish thick along with sand trout. Lots of anglers around him had bent poles.

Daryle Hall, Drew Thornhill and Pecke Carson fished Chocolate Bayou on Friday night and landed nine gafftop, six specks, two slot reds, two bull whiting, four croaker and lots of sand trout.

Hall said that seagulls were working around the geotube and pointed the way to the fish.

Capt. Cody Carter made three offshore trips with guests aboard the party boat, New Buccaneer, last weekend.

Their combined catch from the three trips was 493 vermilion snapper, 186 lane snapper, 46 mangroves, eight African pompano, two kings, six almaco jack, two barracuda, 17 spadefish, 356 gulf trout, a Spanish mackerel and the highlight of the trip, a 120-pound black grouper.

Along the beach front, anglers on the 61st Street Fishing Pier were catching golden croaker, bull reds and sand trout late Sunday.