Galveston fishing report

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In response to Friday’s article about this year’s flounder run, a couple of notes were received shedding more light on the action.

The first was from a well-known Galveston area fishing guide who said, “I have fished the Galveston Channel for more than 50 years and saw a time when not many people fished the channel for flounder. In those days, it was no trick, under good conditions, to catch 40 to 60 floudner a trip, and we saw eight and nine-pound flounders every year in late season. It seems to me that as more people came to the channel to fish, the flounder numbers started to drop off.”

In my opinion, the biggest decline in flouder catches occurred from 2008 to 2011. This year seemed to be a much better year, with many days of anglers catching and releasing two dozen flounder or more. I have said that I would rather keep two flounder and release 24 than not catch any flounder at all. 

The 2014 average size was about two pounds with a four or five-pounder being the biggest fish for most of my trips. Flounder over seven pounds were few and far between.

Another e-mail came from Dennis Patterson, who has been fishing on the Galveston scene for over 10 years.

Patterson said that early on, around 2004, he had a hard time catching flounder during the annual migration or flounder run. Up until six years ago, his catches of the flat fish during the prime time of the run were anywhere from zero to perhaps three.

  

Beginning three years ago, he has been limiting out on flounder during November and has been batting close to 1000 for all of his flounder trips since mid-October.

It will be interesting to see the results from his flounder trip this weekend.