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Thursday, October 30, 2014

Galveston fishing report





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West Bay is holding a good number of flounder of all sizes. This is a typical pattern during the early part of the annual flounder run.

Hank Loftis and his wife, Jen, fished the mouth of Carancahua Lake early Wednesday and landed five flounder from 15 to 21 inches in length. A lone slot red rounded out their catch. Live fingerling mullet was the bait.


Starvation Cove was the site of a nice flounder catch by Merle Raymond and Pete Clairwood. The anglers caught seven, five keepers to 18 inches and two throwbacks. Live shrimp fished under popping corks in two feet of water did the trick.

Lori, better known as the Saltwater Hooker, fished with Flounder Pounder manufacturer Phil Ortiz on Wednesday and landed six flounder, three throwbacks and three keepers, that included 21 and 23-inch fish. The action came from West Bay on Flounder Pounders.

Darrell Moore fished Seawolf Park on Wednesday and landed two flounder, both keepers, measuring 15 and 15½ inches. Lots of sand trout were caught and released as well. Dead shrimp was the bait.

Ronald Bodine reported a catch of 14 golden croaker and a slot red by Eloise Lawrence. No mention of where the action took place.

The party boat New Buccaneer made an overnight trip 100 miles offshore last Sunday with Captains Smitty Smith and Cody Carter sharing duties at the helm. Kayla Garza reported that 49 anglers on board landed a wide variety of fish including 375 blackfin tuna, 19 yellowfins, 645 vermilion snapper, a Warsaw and six other grouper, along with big eye tuna, squirrelfish and rainbow runners.
I am sad to report that we lost another of our long-time saltwater fishermen last week. Melvin Sondock, more commonly known as “Soupy”, passed away at his home in Houston. Soupy loved to fish the Galveston area and will be missed by all of his fishing friends here.

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