Catching Bait

[Flounder Fanatic]

Where are some good places in Galveston County to catch your own bait with a castnet?

[FP10]

Before the causeway in all of that marshland, just exit on the straight away and cast in that channel. That is the only place i have seen people throw a castnet. I am sure there are pleny of other places.

[WestEndAngler]

trade secrets!!! I have a place I go and get shrimp another place for finger mullet... A no brainer would be SLP you can catch bait and fish there

[007]

trade secrets!!! I have a place I go and get shrimp another place for finger mullet... A no brainer would be SLP you can catch bait and fish there

I know where you go......

Smitty's for live shrimp....

Rusty Hook for finger mullet.....

You're secret is out!!!

[lurefisher]

What about uncle Bucks

[Explorer21]

Mullet - surf right now.
Shrimp - marshy areas in several subdivisions or like Jeremy said before the causeway.

[Bluewaver]

All good suggestions, if your traveling by boat nearly any of the Reefs will have natural baits around them.......

1 place you do not want to throw a cast net in to is around the Seabrook Lagoon right off of Hwy 146.
Signs are posted and the area is watched!

Good Luck!
wd

[reeltime]

All good suggestions, if your traveling by boat nearly any of the Reefs will have natural baits around them.......

1 place you do not want to throw a cast net in to is around the Seabrook Lagoon right off of Hwy 146.
Signs are posted and the area is watched!

Good Luck!
wd

why is that?they don't want a bunch of net throwing fools or does if have to due with plant security

by the way i noticed they fenced off that old bridge area on red bluff rd. any body know why........only reason i can think of were the...... undesireables.

[007]

why is that?they don't want a bunch of net throwing fools or does if have to due with plant security

by the way i noticed they fenced off that old bridge area on red bluff rd. any body know why........only reason i can think of were the...... undesireables.

I believe that remember reading that the area in question is a shrimp spawning ground.

[FlatoutFishin]

*8 Mile Rd/Sportsman Rd/ Stewart Rd area.
*Down at the Pass on the Freeport side, check the ditch out right after Bluelight Bait Camp.
*At the dike, checkout the ditch right after Boyds, before the stop sign.
*The big ditch/flat that goes into Moses Lake, off 146.
*Around the Dickenson Bay boat ramp area, just not off the pier/ramp area. I believe that would be against the law.
***** Off 45 South between Bayou Vista and the causeway there is a crossover drain ditch that flows under 45 to Jones Lake....check it out as well, but watch for hang ups!!!!!

Just a few I can think of.

[sublimesurf74]

That whole place is a shrimp sanctuary. I used to live in an apt in nassau bay and would fish from the apt pier. We would cast net for bait. Every cast would bring in over a pound of jumbo shrimp. We never caught any fish except hard heads and occasionaly a tiny croaker. Then we thought screw it lets just keep the shrimp.

We would go out and catch 10lbs in a few minutes and have partys at the pool with grilled shrimp. We brought the fresh shrimp everyone else brought beer.

One night we were catching some and a cop came and told us the law and that one shrimp can cost you $100. We had about $10k in shrimp in our bucket. No more shrimping, but we did have about 20 zip locks in the freezer of them which was enough to feed a couple of poor bartenders for over a month.

As a conservationist I felt bad, but those were some good shrimp