Me and the family are headed for galveston for for our yearly trip.Was just wondering,hows the fishing and what is biting good? We'll be doing lots of surf fishing and some pier fishing.Any help would be great!!

We live in rockwall texas,close to dallas we will be there 6days.Any help or info would be great,thanks guys!!

I WOULD GO TO SURFSIDE TO FISH,GALVESTON LAST WEEK ALL I CAUGHT IN THE SURF WAS HARDHEADS.THE WIND IS UP,ALL LASTWEEK IT WAS BLOWING HARD.THE JETTYS MIGHT PRODUCE BETTER CATCHES BUT THE SURF IS HARDHEAD TERRITORY.SORRY A MONTH AGO THE JETTY IN SURFSIDE WAS CATCHING MACKERAL WITH A GOLDEN SPOON,AT THE END OF THE JETTY,WEST END OF TOWN.AT LEAST U CAN EAT THEM,NOT HARD HEADS.

Thanks chavo,Ya I did hear the winds were blowing hard down there.Hardheads are fun for about -- that long .Thanks for the info!!

i went to galveston on friday night and we caught 9 keeper sepc's and had to toss back about 15 12" specs....

Hey! I live in mesquite, and we are heading down there for a week. we leave on the 23rd, so anyone game to fish with us. we rent a beach house on the private part of the beach. and its great, we dont have to deal with the crowd.

I'll be down there the 23rd thru 28th with family and kiddos. We are going to the bay to shark fish on Friday but we would like to take the kids to fish the surf and such on the other days. Maybe we'll see you down there. Have a safe trip.

Roach64

Me and my family will be in Galveston 6/28, any updates you can provide after your trip would be appreciated. We live in Rockwall, I do quite of bit of freshwater fishin and I'm lookin forward to tryin my hand at saltwater.

Hey Roach64! what part of the beach are ya'll staying at? we will be at bermuda beach, if you know where thats at. we will be there the 23rd-29th.

Thanks! Ya'll have a safe trip down there as well.

hey i dont know about 12 inch trout all i have caught troutwise were in the flats topping 25 inches its just beasts down there im talkin water boiling with huge terrified mullet because reds and large trout as wells as jack crevelle are attacking in mixed schools with flounder near structure. This was all this morning the 17th so you shouldnt see much change this month until july comes.

hardheadabuser - I'm taking my wife and young daughters (8yrs and 2 yrs) to Galveston Island for vacation this Friday - next Friday. Any hotspots your recommend we try? I will also do some solo wade fishing without the girls. I'd love to get into a school of trout and redfish. Never caught a fish wadefishing in saltwater - don't get to do much saltwater fishing in Dallas.

Tight Lines,

Ken

Fishforken,

I'm also DFW-based and have been going to Galveston to fish every summer for the last 12 years. If the conditions are good, be sure to fish the surf in the early morning (dawn 'til 9:00 or so) and at dusk (you can also try in the middle of the day if there is good tidal movement). Use live shrimp under a popping cork. You can find a ton of rigging advice for this on the net. If you can't find live shrimp, try Gulp shrimp, soft plastics or spoons. The key conditions are the height of the waves (too high and you just can't fish) and the wind direction (anything with "west" is bad because it makes the water too sandy). If the surf is gentle and the wind is out of the southeast or east then hit the surf! You can also catch fish off of the public piers - best action for speckled trout will be at night, typically in the early hours of the morning. The kids can probably catch something right on the beach or off a pier by fishing a piece of dead shrimp on the bottom with a small hook (croaker, hardhead, sand trout, or maybe a flounder).

Should have also mentioned that when fishing the surf you want to stand on a sand bar (start with the first bar then after trying several casts go to the second bar) and fish the trough in front of you. Depending on the tide and your height, you usually only need to wade through chest-deep water to get to the second bar. Besides your rod, you will want to carry some equipment with you so you don't have to go back to the beach until you're done fishing: lures, hooks, split shot sinkers, spare popping cork, forceps or pliers to remove hooks and cut line, wade belt and small plastic tackle box to hold all the aforementioned stuff, troll bucket with rope to hold shrimp and landing net is helpful. I strongly recommend a life jacket - besides the obvious reason you can also tie your bucket and net to the life jacket.

not to start a war here or anything, but theres no private beaches in texas. theres a thing called the texas open beach act. it protects me and you from anyone closing any beach in the state of texas to the use by people of the gen public. if you think different, your crazy. call may bulff if you like, but i work for a beach front property on the sand and have dealt with this matter in the pass. people ask me about what they can and can't do on the beach in front of our property,135 units and all i can tell them is when they go through my beach gate, i can't tell you what to do,due to the texas open beach act. i love it! some will say different? if you look at all the condos around san luis pass and think their private,your wrong. those are not private beaches. you can't drive it anymore, but you can walk in and do just about anything you want just as long as its legal. as for fishing, i hope you'll do good. one place you can try in the evening or night is the little bridge over the bayou on 61st. i have never fished it, but heard from a few friends that the trout run through there on the out going tide. i always see the birds working that area in the evenings about 6.30 till i leave the pier just across the water from there. also, pick up a map of the galveston bay system at academy. about $10.

were leaving Galveston tomorrow, been here all week .found if we fished in the surf 6 to 9 am definitely fish were biting.we would catch live shad w casting net and caught many nice shark and nice sand trout, hang on cause those shark dont mess around.also caught lots of variety on pier at night.lots of luck,we had a great time.thanks guys!

me and the lady put the canoe in at 8mile rd today and stayed between there and the end of the seawall. we caught 1 bonnet shark,3 small blacktip shark about 6 gafftop catfish from 2 lbs up to about 5 lbs,whittin,crokers,sandtrout and a few hardheads. we used dead srimp.. we just wanted to get out on the water today. started to rain and lighting, so my day was over. i'm out of anywhere when it starts to lighting. had fun, thats what counts.

Sounds like YA'll had lots of fun,except for the lightning!!Well we just arrived home at Rockwall Texas.I would like to thank you guys again for the great info you gave me, it really took a lot of guess work out,and kept us on the water.Hope to talk to you again sometime,I live about 5 min.from Lake Ray Hubbard.I post mainly on whites, hybrid, stripers,so if any of U are local or just want chat come say HI!! stop by and chat. Again thank you and until next years trip Tite Lines to all!

pops is down there right now, says he's wearing the sand trout out

luv to fish, where did you'll stay while in galveston?

bayloy guy, we had a blast up until we seen some IDIOT riding a ATV on the beach with a small trailer behind it with a dog in it and the IDIOT flipped the trailer with the dog in it. i called the cops on this IDIOT as we set out in the water watching and the guy is local, because the cops did nothing. seen them talking for about 5 mins and the cop drove off. NO ATV'S on the beach as it is a state highway as per the law.

We stayed at the state park.We stay there every year,pretty cheap at 20$ a day.Ya that sounded like a real idiot,it takes all kinds!

I just got back and caught a lot of fish at SLP. We had a boat, so not sure if you have a way on water or not. We caught some very nice trout, and lots of them freelining croakers. Lots of folks using shrimp, but you will catch a ton of hard heads if you do. Lots of bait stealers on shrimp. We also used piggys with some success.

headed down there July 4th weekend. any info yall can pass on would be greatly appreciated. FIshingnat night(on piers) under the lights good? that will probably be the only place I can get the wife to fish from. glow n the dark lures still work at night? should I get the live shrimp and popping corks for night? we are just catch and release, so just looking for that pull

ronnie, you see what i have to offer. don't fish much at night and don't use much live bait. from what i read, the live srimp under a cork at night sounds like the thing to do. also the croker. take you some dead srimp and small trible hook and get a few crokers to freeline. i chase redfish most of the time and anything else is a bonus. hope you catch a few. read the reel report at www.galvestoncountydailynews.com

shouldve called the psych ward, my dad shouldnt have been anywhere near an ATV