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The dastardly
southwest wind was gusting to well over 20 knots on Friday. While that
alone was enough to shut things down on the fishing scene, extreme heat
continued to plague our area, as well.
There was one spot that was productive Friday morning, as reflected in a report from Mark McDavid. McDavid fished deeper waters behind Scholes Field in Offatts Bayou and landed speckled trout, sand trout and croakers on dead shrimp and cut bait.
There was one spot that was productive Friday morning, as reflected in a report from Mark McDavid. McDavid fished deeper waters behind Scholes Field in Offatts Bayou and landed speckled trout, sand trout and croakers on dead shrimp and cut bait.
Before the wind picked up on Friday, there were two reports of some good action. Thursday night, Henry Taylor and Gary Moore
went flounder gigging along the shore just west of the Crash Basin and
took four nice-sized flounder. Taylor said the water was in marginal
shape and lots of crabs were observed along with small stingrays.
Cary Horn fished
from his family’s dock on Teichman Road and landed a half limit of
specks and numerous ribbonfish. The action turned on at 1 a.m., and live
shrimp was the bait of choice.
Brian Tamney
sent a note responding to my recent comments about the lack of seaweed
in the nearshore waters of the Gulf of Mexico. Tamney, who works on a
ship, said that he thinks there has been a shift in currents in the
Atlantic Ocean, which is keeping the seaweed out of the Gulf.
Recently, he has been transiting
from Trinidad to Gulfport and has seen very little seaweed throughout
the whole Caribbean. He said that normally there would be a lot of
seaweed on its way to Texas, so something has changed in the Atlantic.
While August is my favorite month
for fishing out of Galveston, so far this month it has been
disappointing. Hopefully, after all of the rain in the forecast for next
week moves on, conditions will settle and the August action will
return.
