Bolivar: GOOD. 70 degrees. This is the season of wild winds and weather changes with some beautiful days sprinkled in for great fishing. Check the daily forecast. The tides and water levels are alternating between two and four tide days this week that should produce some high fishing activity. Fishing is good to excellent with water temperatures warming to the upper 60s to lower 70s. Water levels are back and forth per usual for the spring extremes. Redfish can be caught everywhere. Nice speckled trout are mixed in with the sand trout, black drum, sheepshead and crabs along the jetty. The flounder are sporadic. More small stingrays and sharks are starting to show up but need to get warmer before the real action begins. The surf is producing lots of redfish, huge black drum, occasional speckled trout and a lot of small bonnethead sharks, spinner sharks, and sand sharks along the peninsula with more activity towards Gilchrist and High Island. Check your weather app for barometer changes. Report by Captain Shane Rilat, North Jetty Bait Camp.
Trinity Bay: FAIR. 68 degrees. Speckled trout are fair in the upper Galveston Bay and Trinity Bay over hard shell bottom. Decent numbers of sheepshead and black drum can be caught on the rocks with live shrimp. Fair trout bite for waders on the east shoreline of Trinity Bay. Report by Captain David Dillman, Galveston Bay Charter Fishing. Current flow from Trinity River at the lochs is 1660 CFS which is great. With the last front and the northwest wind, the fresh water pushed along the East shoreline making for some difficult fishing on that side. Saltwater pushed south to Hodges reef through to the south point. The north shoreline was excellent around Dow reef through the Fred Hartman bridge. Bait worked well in both areas if you could find fish to bite. Recent catches include redfish and trout close to reefs and on grass shorelines with bait busting. Drum and sheepshead are on docks and rocks eating live shrimp under a popping cork. Redfish and trout have been eating vibration baits like blades and WAC Attack Lures WACky Fluke in the purple passion and peppered pumpkin colors. Report by Captain Zackary Scott, Zack Attack Fishing.
East Galveston Bay: GOOD. 69 degrees. It is the backside of the full moon and the bite has been off. The tide has been low, but will return to near normal as we move into four tide days. Oversized black drum can be caught at the Galveston jetties and the Texas City Dike with halved crab. Anglers throwing live shrimp against the rocks are catching sheepshead and keeper black drum. East, West and Trinity bays are fair for speckled trout for anglers wading with artificial lures. Scattered catches of trout, black drum and sheepshead on live shrimp in the upper Galveston Bay. The late week forecast calls for rain. Report by Captain David Dillman, Galveston Bay Charter Fishing. Plenty of mullet and small shad in the bay. Catching a lot of speckled trout, sheepshead and bull redfish wading over oyster and sand with soft plastic suspending twitch baits. Report by Captain Jack Blume. Surface water temperature 69 degrees. The water clarity is average for East Galveston Bay. Trout are becoming more active in deeper holes, and flats over shell. Active baitfish and signs of life are still critical, so pay attention to your surroundings. The redfish bite was not as good this week, although a few giants were caught. Target drains and very shallow water areas back in the marsh using imitation shrimp lures and tails under popping corks, with a 1 foot leader to trigger bites, as well as Deadly Dudley Rat Tails, and WacAttack Flukes, in light colors with 1/4 ounce jig heads. Success is possible on flats with popping cork with artificials. Use a pop and slow reel four crankbaits and pause, triggering the most strikes. Over the deeper cuts the jig head and tails have performed better for our anglers. Fishing should continue to improve as the fish become more active with the warmer temperatures and longer days. Hit us up if we can help get you on the water enjoying the great outdoors on East Galveston Bay. Report by Captain Jeff Brandon, Get the Net Guide Service, LLC.
Galveston Bay: FAIR. 68 degrees. AIt is the backside of the full moon and the bite has been off. The tide has been low, but will return to near normal as we move into four tide days. Oversized black drum can be caught at the Galveston jetties and the Texas City Dike with halved crab. Anglers throwing live shrimp against the rocks are catching sheepshead and keeper black drum. East, West and Trinity bays are fair for speckled trout for anglers wading with artificial lures. Scattered catches of trout, black drum and sheepshead on live shrimp in the upper Galveston Bay. The late week forecast calls for rain. Report by Captain David Dillman, Galveston Bay Charter Fishing.
West Galveston Bay: FAIR. 68 degrees. It is the backside of the full moon and the bite has been off. The tide has been low, but will return to near normal as we move into four tide days. Oversized black drum can be caught at the Galveston jetties and the Texas City Dike with halved crab. Anglers throwing live shrimp against the rocks are catching sheepshead and keeper black drum. East, West and Trinity bays are fair for speckled trout for anglers wading with artificial lures. Scattered catches of trout, black drum and sheepshead on live shrimp in the upper Galveston Bay. The late week forecast calls for rain. Report by Captain David Dillman, Galveston Bay Charter Fishing.
Houston: GOOD. Water normal stain; 70 degrees; 0.95 feet below pool. The inspections have been completed on the dam and the lake is filling back up. With these recent increases it will not be long before the lake is back to full especially with rain in the forecast. Largemouth bass are really starting to pattern up in the shallows eating chatterbaits, frogs and spinnerbaits. With the muddy water, it is necessary to use baits that have noise. Crappie are decent in Luces Bayou eating small jigs very close to brush piles. Catfish are about to be amazing in the bulkheads as the shad spawn has hatched. White bass are in the creeks with decent catches near west fork and Caney Creek. Report by Captain Zackary Scott, Zack Attack Fishing.
Texas City: GOOD. 66 degrees. It is the backside of the full moon and the bite has been off. The tide has been low, but will return to near normal as we move into four tide days. Oversized black drum can be caught at the Galveston jetties and the Texas City Dike with halved crab. Anglers throwing live shrimp against the rocks are catching sheepshead and keeper black drum. East, West and Trinity bays are fair for speckled trout for anglers wading with artificial lures. Scattered catches of trout, black drum and sheepshead on live shrimp in the upper Galveston Bay. The late week forecast calls for rain. Report by Captain David Dillman, Galveston Bay Charter Fishing. The bite is good to excellent. Anglers are catching plenty of speckled trout, redfish, sheepshead and black drum with the occasional sand trout, gafftop and big croakers mixed in. Wade fishing along the levee or anywhere from the dike has been productive from the beginning to the end still. Live shrimp and finger mullet have been the best baits unless you want to use crab to try and catch one of the massive black drum or bull redfish. Report by Captain Shane Rilat, North Jetty Bait Camp.
