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Galveston Bay -- 10/3/14 & 10/5/14
October has started off with great fishing and lots of flounder action throughout the Galveston Bay complex. The flounder are definitely staging for their fall run. The bigger flounder are showing up in just about every one of my favorite summer and fall spots, which is a good indicator that the mass flounder migration is about to start. The first major cold front should push them out of the marshes and bays if water levels drop significantly.
The areas I fished included the shorelines of the Houston Ship Channel near Baytown, Seabrook channel, Jones Lake, Highlands Bayou, and the Galveston Ship Channel. Quality fish were caught at all of these locations, but not a lot of quantity. Best bite occurred during an outgoing tide in protected water. Most of the fish were bedded in shallow water on shorelines, up tight against bulkhead structure, near drains into the ship channel, and around/underneath shrimp boat docks.
I am still using the Gulp mantis shrimp in white and chartreuse as my primary lure. Finger mullet is a good choice right now for the clear deeper water in the ship channel. Will probably switch over to red and white curly tails tipped with mullet and various tandem setups once the first major cold fronts start moving through and murks up the water.
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The areas I fished included the shorelines of the Houston Ship Channel near Baytown, Seabrook channel, Jones Lake, Highlands Bayou, and the Galveston Ship Channel. Quality fish were caught at all of these locations, but not a lot of quantity. Best bite occurred during an outgoing tide in protected water. Most of the fish were bedded in shallow water on shorelines, up tight against bulkhead structure, near drains into the ship channel, and around/underneath shrimp boat docks.
I am still using the Gulp mantis shrimp in white and chartreuse as my primary lure. Finger mullet is a good choice right now for the clear deeper water in the ship channel. Will probably switch over to red and white curly tails tipped with mullet and various tandem setups once the first major cold fronts start moving through and murks up the water.
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