Galveston Fishing Report

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It appears that this year’s flounder run is getting on track earlier than in recent years and more in line with tradition. 

Flounder have started their move from the shallower waters of the back bays and creeks into the bays and getting ready for the run to the passes into the Gulf of Mexico.

Reports also indicate that shrimp are moving out of the marshes and into the bays, triggering some excellent action on trout. Numerous sightings of birds working in East and Trinity bays were reported.

Golden croaker also are making their presence known along the beach front, and it appears that the croaker run is on as well.

Joe Moughon, manufacturer of the popular soft plastics Chickenboys, has been finding outstanding action on quality flounder around the Diversionary Canal. Thursday he again took a limit of flounder to 23 inches from that area using Pyscho Chicken Barn Yard Pimp as bait.

Opa Miller is another longtime angler who feels the flounder run is on. Miller’s son and grandson, Kevin and Mitchell Miller, took their grandfather fishing Wednesday to a marsh drain near Texas City’s Snake Island. In less than four hours, they landed eight flounder and two slot reds.

Miller said that the flounder averaged 18 inches and that is a good sign this early in the season.

Jesse Hamilton fished the Galveston Fishing Pier both Wednesday and Thursday nights, landing 15 large golden croaker Wednesday, and a combination of large croaker and whiting on Thursday.

Jim Carmer of Omega Bay landed a Texas Grand Slam while fishing West Bay on Wednesday morning. His catch consisted of a 21-inch red, 18-inch flounder and 26-inch speck. Silver spoons and Gulps were the baits, and the action came from near South Deer Island.