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Reds, flounder bite as wind begins to drop
By Joe Kent
Correspondent
Published October 19, 2009
Fishing continued to improve Sunday, as the wind dropped and flounder began appearing again.
Reds and a variety of other fish have been filling stringers all around the Galveston Bay Complex.
Although there were no reports of catches of speckled trout, chances are the information had not trickled in by press time.
Sunday afternoon should have seen some good action on trout from areas where they have been hot lately, including East and Trinity bays.
Friday was Steven Segura’s birthday and he spent the occasion fishing East Beach with his two dogs.
It turned out to be a great day of fishing in spite of the high winds. Using cut bait, he landed a 38-inch, 23-pound bull red, an array of gafftop and a blacktip shark.
Adam Castaneda, who fishes almost every weekend, decided to give it a try Saturday afternoon.
Sometime around 5:30 p.m., he went to the 18th Street Fishing Pier in San Leon and upon arrival visited with a departing fisherman who told him there were no fish to be caught there.
The pessimistic angler gave Castaneda the few live croaker he had remaining.
After hooking one on his line, he cast the bait into the water and immediately had a 28-inch, 10-pound red. Not a bad catch for 30 minutes of fishing was Castaneda’s comment.
Tony Marshall and Frank Petronella fished the old piers and pilings along Channelview Street and found flounder stacked up there Sunday afternoon.
Using a trolling motor to work their way up and down the area, the anglers caught nine flounder and six sand trout using live shrimp free-lined.
Capt. Paul Stanton, Aqua Safari Charters, made a jetty trip Sunday with a group of four.
Using Spanish sardines for bait, his guests landed a limit of blacktip sharks to 36 inches, 10 gafftop to 5 pounds and four bull reds, all tagged and retained.
The action took place on the Gulf side of the South Jetty.
One of our regular contributors, Opa Miller, offered to share one of his windy day fishing spots with us.
Friday, he and Rick Wegman went fishing in what he described as “Sho Nuff” windy conditions.
The 35-knot wind was too much for the open bays, so the anglers proceeded to the Highland Bayou Diversion Canal near Hitchcock.
They launched at Hitchcock’s Second Street Boat Ramp and fished from the Harborwalk Bridge to the east junction of Little Basford Bayou.
Their catch included a 27-inch red, two 17-inch sand trout and a full day’s worth of other fish, including lady fish, stingray, gafftop, drum, sheepshead, croakers, throw-back specks and reds.
A couple of Spanish mackerel cut their leaders.
It was surprising to see Spanish mackerel in that area. Miller said the fishing in the canal gets better as the water cools.
To get your catch in the Reel Report, phone Capt. Joe Kent at 409-683-5273, or send an e-mail to reel.report(at)galvnews.com. There’s no charge for this service.
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