Galveston fishing report

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This year’s flounder run is winding down and, while there are going to be stragglers of all sizes being caught for a while, the peak is behind us.

With the lack of fishing reports for Thursday, let’s take a look at how this year’s run shaped up in comparison to other years.

The flounder run or migration, as it is more properly called, was better this year compared to recent years.  Unfortunately it was not close to the action that occurred years ago.

I recall one of my first fishing trips during the flounder run back in the early 1960s that resulted in 48 flounders for me and a friend.  We were in my family’s 16-foot Holmes Boat anchored off of the Quarantine Station in easy view of the old houses with large screened-in porches.

We used dead shrimp and mud minnows for bait and landed fish between 13 and 23 inches.

For a high school kid back then, the timing was terrible as so many school and social activities competed for our time.  In the fall, we just did not have the opportunities to go fishing that existed during the summer.

I recall that our fishing trip occurred during October and was in the middle of the migration period.

The catch that day continues to be my record, whether the fish were retained or released.  Back then we kept all of our fish of edible size.

The bleakest period seems to have been in the three to five years before our new bag limits were set, along with the special November regulation setting a two fish limit and prohibiting gigging.

Following enactment of the new rules, the stocks began to quickly bounce back.

The peak of the flounder run definitely is occurring later in the season and hopefully our regulations will result in an incremental increase in catches each year.