Hoggwild, I told you to come over here and I would put you on some fish. Did you read the post under Hybrids\white bass.

my neighbor caught about a dozen or so at Newman bottom last monday 5/4/09. He had a good sized hybrid too. Haven't heard anything else.

a dozen....when the run is on...we talkin about LIMITS.....

thanks for the report catchnrelease i'm hopefully headed out there soon!

yesterday evening we went to irvin's bridge and caught a few whites! we did get tons of bites but they were mosquitos!

listen to what i say!!! its over! haha im glad they are still nibbling(mosquitos that is) haha! hows the wate creek snapper??? still ought to be some crappiiieeesss in there! >;]

hoggwild it's still pretty low but we just fished the deeper holes.

I went there yesterday, bank fishing at birch. I caught 10 whites, 7 cats, and 1 drum using ghost minnows. No mosquito bites caught! lol. I would have got some have I had stayed till evening. Most white bass I caught were still female with undeveloped eggs. A very pretty day at the park, saw lots of people picnicing/partying there.

No one on the saltwater side of this site knows anything! anyone here every fish the galveston jetty????

Well when you get back come over and help me catch crappie on conroe and whites on livingston. I am goin wednesday to see about a limit of crappie with jigs and then thursday I will limit out on whites at livingston. Probably next month I will start fishin east bay for trout. I may take the carolina skiff down there so I will not tear up my kenner.

we used to go down to the bolivar island jetty every summer but last year was the first time back there in a while.anyway we always catch trout and a few reds.

yeah we are thinkin of hittin the north jetty on bolivar...it cost anything to park/fish there???

yup thats were we go and i'm almost positive it doesn't cost anything.

is it tough fishing there? we are bringin lights and all. but we are seriously after some fish. its my BDAY weekend and were PUMPED. we are lookin for shark,reds and trout and whatever else is edible..lol guess what im askin is how far down should we go on the jetty???? google maped it yesterday, looks like that jetty is 5miles long lol

we normally start fishing a 1/2 mile down then we end up working are way down to about a mile we've never gone all the way down there it's really far. we've caught specks,reds,and flounder and of course hard heads. we've never tried to fish specifically for sharks but see people around us who do sucessfully.

Live shrimp if available , dead if not. Speck rigs work well also.

hey snapper i really appreciate the tips bro...im a "greenhorn" when it comes to coastal fishing so any info is GREATLY appreciated. just if i dont bring back fish this trip my wife probably wont let me go on another! haha.

good luck

Hey "Greenhorn" Happy b-day!

The jetties are dangerous in so many ways. Try and fish the lee side of the jetty to keep out of the wind/current. This time of year should be the bay side. The channel side can get choppy and wet depending on the wind. You'll probably catch more variety of fish on the channel side but it's not worth re-rigging every other cast if the current+wind is there.
The bay side will offer a better advantage over the channel side if you try fishing from the bottom. (Reel fast when bringing in a fish or checking your bait) Species seasonally vary. You will not catch many sharks just yet. It is a good time there for Specks and sandies but it all depends on how green the water is right now.
There is a place on the left I believe before the lighthouse that takes you across a bridge. (If it hasn't been washed out) We would wade fish there on the gulf side and catch flounder/trout on the sand flats.
Why go to the coast when you can go to Fairfield? lol.
I need to get down there soon to take some birds for a friend to mount who lives in Tx. City.
I may try a couple of hours on Somerville this Friday.

goin to the coast cause of all the eye candy thats why! plus we are goin on a deep sea trip while we are there.UNFORTUNATELY i dont have a bay boat.
so fish the bay side ya say DMC???? and there is quiet a few sharks showin up on the jetties from other reports ive gotten from people.

I was waitin on someone to do that!

ohhhhhhhh, the coast was just as hard...if not harder to find fish than somerville this weekend.. im flat out exhausted and only kept 3 fish.(2 black drums and sheephead). hope yall did better than i this weekend.....24hr straight of fishing is tough!

I guess the fish density at somerville is higher than that in galveston...
I went to somerville this past weekend, caught 14 whites (plus 2 undersized/released), 6 cats and 4 drums.

jc, where were the fish caught at? still tryin to get a good whitebass report.

Every once in a while the planets line up just right, the rains come and believe it or not there still up in the creeks...

hoggwild - I fished at birch creek unit, off the main lake. btw, last week's official TPWD fishing report was pretty good.