Friday 5/30/08 Fishing was great at the Galveston Fishing Pier . Green Water ,winds at 12 mph sse , and warm. Saw lots of specks , spanish macs, keerper reds , keeper drums , flounder , sheephead caught. My wife and I fished for only 3 hours then had to leave . I managed to catch a 27 3/4 in. keeper red on a whiting head I cut off. The pier was packed and of course there was a bunch of (STUPID< DONT KNOW BETTER >OR JUST DONOT CARE JERKS THERE )So to keep myself from ( getting arrested , killing or getting killed we left. ) I hate to seem like a bigot BUT about 10 Asian types (no speak English ) started there stupid type of fishing and messing everone else up . Now I got that off my chest I gues I will go read a book and hope for a better trip next week .

I AM HOPING TO COME DOWN TO Galveston this summer and Fish the Pier at 61st i will get a temp salt lic when i get there hope to get to meet a few of you there to help show how to fish there.and help me know what is keep size . i have 2 12' BIG rods with spin reels and 25lb big game . just need to know hook/weight sizes.
and baits toget when i get there.I hope for help thanks if I get any.
HOPE TO LEARN SO I CAN COME BACK. Not looking for alot of fish mostly to learn.

Not for sure they will let you on the pier with that long a rod. I do know there is a limit on length. Maybe someone can confirm what the actual limit is.

I have seen a few people who have rods that reach up into the stratosphere! I am not aware of a length limit. There is a spot on the t-head designated for long rods, but I see people using them all over the place. It doesn't seem to cause a problem. I fished last saturday and the main problem was people leaving unattended rods at different locations, that tangled with others. It is amazing how a few people can tie up a good portion of the pier. Also some allow thier lines to drift and that takes up room. It was a slow day fishing. I caught a 3.5 and 4.7 lb slimy gafftop and several small whiting and the smallest shark I have ever seen.

WILL I stay real close to mine so i won't lose a rod or fish.

You guys need to save some fish for us that have to drive over 5 hours to get there (very jealous).
We are heading down there next week and hope the fishing is still as good.

You will not find me at 61st street pier . I fish at the BIG pier at 91 st strret . The Galveston Fishing Pier. It is my 2 nd home . Unless the seedweed is in then I,ll be at 18th street pier in San Leon . No size limit on rods just the number you can use at 1 time (3) . Like who ever is gona obey that . Me I use 1 and only 1 pole at a time . Love to watch those multible pole people miss fish after fish after fish . Like Mac was saying a few mess up the whole pier with to many lines in the water.

Windy windy windy thats the forecast for weds- sat . Guess I will go see that new Indy movie. Unless I get a good report on conditions from San Leon area .

Any new report? Is the winds letting up?

I MOSTLY TAKE 2 BUT IF NOT ANUFF ROOM I USE 1 .
I DON'T LIKE KNOTS UNLESS IT IS TO PUT ON GEAR ON MY LINES.
bobtex1950 if you don't mine can i call you when I come down ?
not sure when hope this summer on a weekend .wife wants to go down this summer at less once .

call me anytime after 10 am and before 10 pm 713-517-9096

Just to clarify on rod length limits on 91st st pier. It used to be 14ft last year but they changed it to 12ft this year.

Idiots kept coming out and busting out the pier lights with their big rigs. Costs them $70 per light.

I take my 12 footer there all the time but never tried to get anything bigger in there. Not sure how strict they are.

6/09/08 Ray at the Galveston Fishing Pier reports water is sandy green . The winds still blowing but not as bad. Catches are : jacks , gaftttops , whiting , sharks ,sandtrout, and stingray . Hopefully these winds will lay down so the specks and macs, will move in . The speck and mac tourneys may actual get some fish wieghed in soon .

Fished the 61 st pier froom 8am to 11am. I caught 4 whiting and a 2 1/2 foor blacktip shark. I saw several other small sharks caught and a few whiting. Water was sandy green and the surf was high.

The water is sandy green thursday 6/12/08 winds around 15 mph . Ray on the Galveston Fishing Pier reports fishing is slow slow . The weekend outlook is not to promising . 15-20 mph winds with 50 % chance of rain . Guess me and wife will go to a movie. The ( Shudder) seaweed will be coming in soon and that will end beachfront fishing for me till around August . Can not stand to fish in that [censored]. Most likely be fishing at 18 th street pier in san leon .

How have the skeeters been down there? I would assume with the lack of rain they're not too bad. If we get rain this weekend then watch out!!!

i bet they're HORRIBLE!!!! those skeeters will find me from 10 miles away. those big striped ones really do me in....

Been so much wind no skeeter prob .

we went down to galveston on 5/13 and at first all we were catching was sand trout but then we started nailing the spec's. all in all we had 10 keeper's and threw more then that back. the water was murky, there was about a 4 foot surf but still turned out to be great fishing...

Three more weeks and I will be heading for the coast, been watching the weather and am starting to worry that the rain from up north may start working it's way down this way and ruin a perfectly good summer again like last year.

Trying to keep my options open as to where along the coast I go, especially with the price of gas these days. Galveston is first choice, Rockport/Port A are second and if push comes to shove I'll bite the bullet and head south to South Padre.

What do y'all think, is Galveston/Rockport expected to clear of the winds and rain by 4th of July?

6/16/08 Winds out of the ssw 12-15 mph is making the water off colored and fishing stinks . A few sharks and whiting and gafttop .

Hey fishermen! Glad to join your team...Going out tommorow to 61st..hope to keep informed with all of you...

to the fourm! let us know it goes!!!

Ray reports green water around t head , catches of whiting , shark , gafttop , and sandtrout . If the winds =do not mess up the water should see trout by Friday . The really amazing thing is ALMOST NO SEAWEED( prob jinked us now) .Last year at this time you needed a crane to winch your line in from all the seaweed.

Got to 61st pier at 7:00am...MILLIONS of SHAD popping everytwhere..I love this site..... I saw 4 good size gaftop and left after about 8:30..Got very small bumps an dwater was gree...Then I decided to go to SEAWOLF park....NADA, but I ran into an old friend who caught a 37 inch LING...That made the trip worth it...Left seawolf at about 2:00pm..STILL GOT SKUNKED anyway...good luck