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The news on the fishing scene, although not big news, is that flounder are beginning to appear along the pathways to the Gulf of Mexico.

Saturday afternoon and Sunday a number of small flounder ranging from a foot long to just over the minimum size of 14 inches were being caught along Pelican Island, Rollover Pass and around the old barge graveyard on Bolivar Peninsula.

Larger flounder are being reported from the upper reaches of bayous and back bays.

Lawrence Arnold fished Halls Bayou near the entrance to Halls Lake Saturday and landed a 23-inch saddle blanket using live shrimp for bait. Arnold was fishing bottom and landed several reds as well.

Roy Orvis wade-fished Jumbile Cove near Jamaica Beach early Sunday and landed two flounder both close to 20 inches in length using Chicken Boy soft plastics.

Sand trout still are concentrated around the Galveston Ship Channel where Horace Perez and Mary Rico were fishing Sunday. The couple from San Leon landed 22 to 13 inches in length using a combination of live shrimp and cut sand trout. Perez said that when the live shrimp ran out, they took the smaller fish from the ice chest and cut them up for bait. Unbelievable to them, the action did not slow down with the new bait.

Rollover Pass has long been a hot spot for flounder and large golden croaker during the fall. Annette Henderson and her two sons fished the pass Saturday night and caught several small flounder with only two meeting the minimum size to retain. Live shrimp fished on the bottom was the bait.

The jetties continue to be productive and reports from the North Jetty Bait Camp indicate that flounder, black drum, sheepshead and sand trout are being caught by anglers using shrimp, both live and dead, for bait.