New User & Report

[MakoMan1901]

New to the forums and Galveston bay in general. Grew up fishing Matagorda and during college the back bays and bayous in Savannah Ga. Now that I'm grown, living in downtown Houston, and West bay is a short drive (good since balancing family and fishing seems to be an efficiency equation) I'm finding myself learning new territory.

I'm a firm believer in doing my part so I'll keep the fishing reports coming as often as I can and any advise is always greatly appreciated. Won't give up specifics to open leachers but PM me if you think I can help in any way. Now for the report.

Saturday October 4th: Beautiful day on the water. First time in West bay. Launched under the 2004 bridge per the advice of a friend. NE wind driving most of the bait out of the marsh. Worked the shorelines with a few random jigs. Chartreuse paddle tails and green rat'l'traps seemed to drive them crazy. Put a dent in a school of Sandys, one spec, and a few flounder. Broke the golden rule and left fish to find fish. Went looking for some Red fight but pushed our luck. Not much rod bending but the wife and neighbors didn't mind the food.

Good day all in all. Thanks for sharing the fish West Enders.









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[plugger]

Well , that's a great start ! Got some big sand trout and a couple nice flounder . You wouldn't have had room in the cooler for reds anyhow ! HAR! Thanks for the report and well done !

[MakoMan1901]

We did take a fair number of sandies, so I should also mention I'm not a fan of taking more than you need. Most of the time I like to catch and release. We happened to be having a fish fry for the game today so we were feeding 4 fisherman, 3 wives, 2 neighbors, 2 children (and a partridge in a pear tree)


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[S-troop]

Welcome aboard and thanks for reporting. Nice job on the catching!


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[Ibtsoom]

WTG! and Welcome!

[Curmudgeon]

Welcome! Nice bunch of sandies!

[lurefisher]

Welcome

[trophytroutman]

Welcome and nice report and catch. Nothing wrong with sandies at all.

[SCHU]

X2.

[westbaytroutassasin]

Your off to slamming start. Welcome. I live on west bay so if you ever need a bay report before you drive down send me a PM. And ill hook you up. No pun intended

[MakoMan1901]

Thanks. I appreciate that. Im going to try to get down there this weekend sometime but the deer feeders need corn and it doesn't look like the weather will be too friendly so we'll see.

[westbaytroutassasin]

I've got no choice this weekend I got a fish Saturday for that CCA tournament.

[MakoMan1901]

Id much rather be fishing a tournament in the rain than hauling around bags of corn through the piney woods. Id give up the hunting if the wife didn't love venison as much as she loves trout. I guess there are worse problems to have. Haha. Stay dry and good luck out there.

[westbaytroutassasin]

Thanks mako

[Silver Wolf]

Great report and pic. Lord Bless.
robert