April 9, 20214 yr Author https://www.facebook.com/groups/4046721148697333/?ref=shareSaw this for drone fishing.
April 9, 20214 yr In regard to reading the surf, on Matagorda where @fattyflattie and I were talking about earlier, having google earth images helps a lot. You can see on this image, in between the red marks, which are at about 7 miles from the beach entrance, down to about 13, the barrier island is about 1/4 mile thicker than the area on either side. That means it's either higher in elevation, or a harder composition that hasn't eroded as much. That's why the wade guts are deeper there. I've found the same thing on PINS, if you look at images and find variances where the barrier island changes, or where old "passes" used to go through, those are usually good spots to try.
April 9, 20214 yr Just posted on Dos Frios as well but here are the results from yesterday's afternoon wade. All fish but the smaller red caught in 30 minutes. West Bay Galveston.
April 9, 20214 yr Here's a similar image of PINS - you can see at about the 20 to 40 mile marker between the larger red lines, where the big change is. Little Shell and Big Shell. On either side of that is the same. The smaller red marks are the entrance to PINS and the end at Mansfield Cut.
April 9, 20214 yr 5 minutes ago, Judge Roybeanbag said: Here's a similar image of PINS - you can see at about the 20 to 40 mile marker between the larger red lines, where the big change is. Little Shell and Big Shell. On either side of that is the same. The smaller red marks are the entrance to PINS and the end at Mansfield Cut. The small red mark at the top is across from Baffin. That is about at the 10 mile mark, Yarborough is just below it at the 15. I have found my favorite wade guts at about the 48, although big and little shell have some great and obvious structure.
April 9, 20214 yr 14 hours ago, Sam Lin said: It's really hard to beat the convenience:fun ratio of catching average fish on really light tackle. Excitement and challenge goes up 10x and you can do it just about anywhere for zero cost. 2 wt fly rod fishing ftw!
April 9, 20214 yr 1 hour ago, Jiggy-Z said: That is about at the 10 mile mark, Yarborough is just below it at the 15. I do not miss dragging the boat thru there. I never got stuck but damn that was hairy going in sometimes. Plenty of people I was with would bury up in there, the trailer axles would just dig and take the top off the sand until you couldn’t go anymore.
April 9, 20214 yr 2 minutes ago, fattyflattie said: I do not miss dragging the boat thru there. I never got stuck but damn that was hairy going in sometimes. Plenty of people I was with would bury up in there, the trailer axles would just dig and take the top off the sand until you couldn’t go anymore. Back in the days before I had my Tacoma, I spent many an hour digging my 3/4 tn F250 diesel out of the sands of Yarborough...good times. I have had buddies get stuck there with kayak trailers too. Great spot to go for a few days, not for everyone though. Long before the park fixed the road a couple of years ago and before the oil companies fixed it the times before that, your adventure was just beginning once you got through the dunes at Yarborough. Often there were wet washouts and boggy areas that could sink even the lightest of vehicles if you were not paying attention. I'll take being stuck in the sand any day as long as its not that muddy stuff down by the water like at Matagorda.
April 9, 20214 yr So if going to PINS for a weekend to fish the surf and maybe camp, what is the best bet location wise for some seclusion from other folks and a decent shot at some fishies?
April 9, 20214 yr 3 hours ago, Jiggy-Z said: Back in the days before I had my Tacoma, I spent many an hour digging my 3/4 tn F250 diesel out of the sands of Yarborough...good times. I have had buddies get stuck there with kayak trailers too. Great spot to go for a few days, not for everyone though. The boat I had couldn’t make the trip and then fish a week in the landcut due to fuel. So we would all launch from Yarborough. This would be circa 2000-2005. I had a little lifted single cab Chevy on 33’s, and a 17’ skiff. I could take care of myself but a lot of my fiends had 3/4 tons and bigger boats. They could handle bird Island but were just along to keep the group together. I don’t know how many times I had to go thru, drop my boat, then back in there and snatch one of them out. Going the other way was easy peezy, I remember that. 0% chance I could do it with current ride and boat, but now I can fill up in Rockport and make it there without any worry.
April 9, 20214 yr 2 hours ago, hookemATL said: So if going to PINS for a weekend to fish the surf and maybe camp, what is the best bet location wise for some seclusion from other folks and a decent shot at some fishies? Depends on how far you want to drive. But minimal effort somewhere between the 8 and 15mm a little more effort 20-30mm harder driving fewer people past 30mm it gets pretty secluded, unless you are at Mansfield which is like Vegas on the weekend.
April 9, 20214 yr If I’m not hauling a trailer and whatnot, is 4wd sufficient? Have high clearance as well
April 9, 20214 yr 8 hours ago, Zwylde said: Just posted on Dos Frios as well but here are the results from yesterday's afternoon wade. All fish but the smaller red caught in 30 minutes. West Bay Galveston. Nice. Where at in West Bay? Struck out today in East Bay.
April 10, 20214 yr 1 hour ago, hookemATL said: If I’m not hauling a trailer and whatnot, is 4wd sufficient? Have high clearance as well Yes
April 10, 20214 yr 11 hours ago, Judge Roybeanbag said: In regard to reading the surf, on Matagorda where @fattyflattie and I were talking about earlier, having google earth images helps a lot. You can see on this image, in between the red marks, which are at about 7 miles from the beach entrance, down to about 13, the barrier island is about 1/4 mile thicker than the area on either side. That means it's either higher in elevation, or a harder composition that hasn't eroded as much. That's why the wade guts are deeper there. I've found the same thing on PINS, if you look at images and find variances where the barrier island changes, or where old "passes" used to go through, those are usually good spots to try. Are you pointing out the bay side or the gulf side of the island in your description?
April 10, 20214 yr 13 hours ago, Mac8111 said: https://www.facebook.com/groups/4046721148697333/?ref=share Saw this for drone fishing. She’s shopping for a cheap one, we don’t want to take her work one. I think she joined the group too. I’m too busy watching baseball to care too much. Edited April 10, 20214 yr by troph
April 10, 20214 yr 10 hours ago, troph said: Are you pointing out the bay side or the gulf side of the island in your description? The gulf/surf side.
April 10, 20214 yr If you want to do some looking this is a good place to do it https://tidesandcurrents.noaa.gov/inundationdb/
April 12, 20214 yr Thats awesome. Just texted it to a buddy whose wife is off the rails.All this talk about fishing the lower TX coast makes me grateful for SW Louisiana. Haven't posted much lately but ive been 5 times over the last few weeks and the fish have been sparse but solid. Trout, reds, flounder,, and drum today. Last weekend -
April 12, 20214 yr 1 hour ago, troph said: and all of your incoming text notifications are gonna scare the fish. CHIEF
April 12, 20214 yr Texted that to my buddy last night and this morning he answered "Oh Jesus, I thought that was actually (his wife)"
April 12, 20214 yr 13 hours ago, troph said: Perfect example of the female/male dynamic. As my dad had reportedly said when he was dating my mom and was late picking her up: "When then fish are biting, you fish; plenty of other time for courting."
April 28, 20214 yr No real big girls, 22" and 21" were the top two. Sporadic bite but a few more for the Memorial Day fish fry. Top water bite is back on in the canal at dusk and dawn. Edited April 28, 20214 yr by Zwylde
April 29, 20214 yr 6 hours ago, Zwylde said: Top water bite is back on in the canal at dusk and dawn. I have more luck at dusk than I do at dawn. I sleep too well when I’m down there to get up early. Well, I sleep well when the house across the street isn’t burning down.
April 29, 20214 yr Oh trust me I rarely see the sun come up. I woke up to pee one morning about 5:30 and I figured the wind laid pretty good so I went out to see if anything was in the lights. Not much but a got damn dolphin scared the shit out of me. Came up for air right in my light coming towards me with that big as "splewww" out its blow hole. So freaking loud when there is not another sound in the air. Went back to bed but never really slept so went back down after dawn and caught that one on the first cast. I usually have two or three blowups at dusk but they are usually so small they can't get the top dog in their mouth. So you are right across from the fire house? That was a shock to see driving out the next morning.
April 29, 20214 yr On 4/6/2021 at 4:25 PM, fattyflattie said: This is anecdotal af but a couple of years ago I went to the island to visit with a friend, and he wanted to hit the jetties. January, and the water was like yoohoo. I watched him catch a limit of trout, all between 20-25" on a freaking mirrolure. The conditions were so bad I didn't even bring tackle. I just sat there and drank beer and watched him crush these fish and froze my nuts off. I 100% would not have believed any of it had I not been right there. They are there. It was miserable conditions tho. Changed my entire outlook, although I can find other things to do on yoohoo water January days. All I need to know is which one is Mont running? And is doing anything other than cockguzzling their sponsors still grounds for censure. My Nephew has pulled some nice trout stringers with a rattle trap in the Surf. Whodathunkit.
April 30, 20214 yr 8 hours ago, horn4life said: My Nephew has pulled some nice trout stringers with a rattle trap in the Surf. Whodathunkit. I use to throw rattle traps in the surf, they work well. Kingfish eat them up too. My comment about the mirror lure was just because the winter. I have whipped their ass with 52MRs a million times in the summer. Guess it’s not all that surprising it was a good lure that day, similar to a corky. Just didn’t expect that guy to be throwing it. And crushing it.
May 2, 20214 yr 25 minutes ago, Sam Lin said: What kind of fish in the upper photo? It's gorgeous. Whaaaa hooooooooo
May 8, 20214 yr Author Some friends wanted to come fish and paid for a guide to go the jetties. So I went with them. Not a bad day. They don’t get to fish much so they were having a blast. Good variety of fish. Sifted through a million on hard head and gafftops to get what we got. Had two big ass black drum to start the day off. Figured we would have had a few more reds. We had grilled and fried fish for late lunch that day. One of the other jetties boats kept all their gafftop. Glad I wasn’t cleaning them. Waded yesterday with the old man and his buddy. Found one flat with some nice trout on it. Every other spot we tried was nada. I even found a shallow sand bar holding rafts and rafts of mullet and glass minnows but only one lame half ass trout thump. Wasn’t a lot of tide movement. Fuck it. Was better than working.
May 9, 20214 yr I haven’t been saltwater fishing with my son in 7 years, since his grandfather died. Taking him and his girlfriend this next weekend to camp for a couple days and try the surf. Hoping he’ll catch a little bit of the bug we always had.
May 9, 20214 yr 3 weeks to go until I finally get down to the beach and get some fishing in. I didn’t get to do any spring fishing this year. Sucks to miss the best part of the year, but shit like work occasionally gets in the way.
May 9, 20214 yr Headed to Matagorda 3 mile lake next week for camping, yaking, and fishing. Much needed.
May 9, 20214 yr 6 hours ago, Brew said: 3 weeks to go until I finally get down to the beach and get some fishing in. I didn’t get to do any spring fishing this year. Sucks to miss the best part of the year, but shit like work occasionally gets in the way. I think the last time I was able to wet a line was June of ‘20. God that just depressed me.
May 9, 20214 yr On 5/8/2021 at 1:23 PM, BearSchlong said: Black drum you say? Yup, I must be back in Texas, soaking shrimp with Dad. Yo daddy jeans fire
May 9, 20214 yr Popular Post Masshole Jr got his PB bass on the fly yesterday morning. I was trying out a new sinking line and he took a couple casts and pulled this one out.
May 11, 20214 yr We’ve been around 8 mile in Galveston for about 12 days. Hardly any mullet, waves were a bitch the first 8-9 days. Things were a little nicer last couple days. Had very calm water 2 days ago, but no mullet and no biting on shrimp or croakers. Some mullet yesterday, but no bite. So this morning I got up and could see mullet jumping all over from the house. Got out to the beach and you could hardly walk through the water. They are everywhere from ankle deep to as far out as I was willing to wade (~100 yards). All up and down the beach. You couldn’t cast net and not get at least 2-3. And they didn’t come and go, they have been here all day. So what is going on? Some migration? Mating? Am I swimming in fish jizz? Bite was there today. Caught two 18-24” black tip and one 20” trout. Edited May 11, 20214 yr by UT_OB1
May 11, 20214 yr Nighttime shad slaughter. Sorry for the sideways filming. IMG_8071.MOV Sorry, I thought the vid would embed. Edited May 11, 20214 yr by Zwylde
May 11, 20214 yr Yes, OB1, the mullet are migrating back up the Coast. The migrate South for the Winter and come back up in the Spring.
May 11, 20214 yr 2 hours ago, Zwylde said: Nighttime shad slaughter. Sorry for the sideways filming. IMG_8071.MOV 9.2 MB · 6 downloads Sorry, I thought the vid would embed. What's feeding on them?
May 11, 20214 yr 3 hours ago, Zwylde said: Nighttime shad slaughter. Sorry for the sideways filming. IMG_8071.MOV 9.2 MB · 11 downloads Sorry, I thought the vid would embed. That's a pretty awesome video. Were you in a boat or kayak?
May 11, 20214 yr Neither, I was on my deck. They were trout. Never seen them frenzy like that, it was almost piranha-esq. Also hard to catch any when there is that much food in the water 😂
May 11, 20214 yr 13 minutes ago, Zwylde said: Neither, I was on my deck. They were trout. Never seen them frenzy like that, it was almost piranha-esq. Also hard to catch any when there is that much food in the water 😂 When I was a kid we fished at Oyster Lake under lights, and at certain times it would be like that. The popping sound of the trout feeding was just crazy.
May 12, 20214 yr 2 hours ago, Zwylde said: Neither, I was on my deck. They were trout. Never seen them frenzy like that, it was almost piranha-esq. Also hard to catch any when there is that much food in the water 😂 Wait till the reds show up. It sounds like bombs going off in the water. It’s a great time of year for the canals.
May 12, 20214 yr 1 hour ago, Lat22 said: Wait till the reds show up. It sounds like bombs going off in the water. It’s a great time of year for the canals. Nothing more fun than making reds eat on top
May 12, 20214 yr Hard to get a sense of scale but looks like a bunch of dinks. They'll fatten up real quick eating that good though.
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