Hey I just wanna do some fun braggin to my all buddies on here. I did a 4-day saltwater trip to Galveston last week, fished Tuesday to Friday with my out of town buddies and had an awesome 4 days!! This was my first time taking my boat with me and I was mainly targetting the October Bull Red run and some smaller but tastier golden croakers for my mom and older siblings in Houston. My mission was a very gratifying accomplishment!! I got to fight good monster reds every day with Friday, the finally, being the most epic!! Friday the reds ran thick and my crew and I were exhausted and left them biting. We had four monster "fish ons" at once one time and man that was a hoot!!! LOL!! The majority of the reds caught were in the 35-40" range and all CPR'ed . But more importantly, I, the baby of the family of 9 children, filled my Moms and older siblings freezers with some good fish!! LOL!

Here are a FEW of the pics I wanna brag about....hehe...and I took a bunch!! hehehe


Tuesday:




This is what a golden croaker looks like. Crocs size 10 for ref. My mom and older sibling love them.
We found them twice in four days schooling thick under out boat. They are sand bass and magnum sizes
but they fight much harder!!


Wednesday:

Started early for flounder and only caught a few, the water is still warm at 78 degrees. So not yet!

Caught a stingray too...

...and da BULLS


Thursday:
Water was very choppy so went to a proteced area and slabbed up some big sand trouts.

Once the water calmed down a bit, it was back to catching reds...



Continued...

Friday:

I was in this pose a whole lot Friday.




The color is beautiful under the sun!!! Beautiful Fish!!!


We did a whole lot of CPR'ed in four days...


A nice bucket filled with fish for my seafood lover, 87 yrs old Mother

What a good trip.

I stored by boat at a slip at Galveston Yatch Basin Marina. Man, that is one nice marina with high dollar boats!!! The daily slip rate is $1.50 per ft length of your boat. Slip has cover, electricity, water, storage shed, high security. You can leave your boat on dry land for $20 per day. I stayed at a 4-star hotel on the seawall. The off season prices are dirt cheap this time of the year. A double queen room, nice and clean, with break fast....the same rate as Shoestring farm!

My boat is home with me now in DFW.

wow that looks too fun. They don't call them Bull Reds for nothing! Great catches! What were you using to catch them?

Sweeeeetttttt

Why to go Todd looks like lot's of Fun.

Todd, good post
I'll PM you soon to find out more details on your trip. I would like to do something like this.

WOW what a great trip!

Awesome Todd! Pure awesome!

Man looks like an awesome time, congrats!

Great Trip Todd! You da Man!

Good job Todd! That bull red fishing is the most fun game in around. Looks like you had lots of open water, few other boats.

we were using small cicle hooks with live and cut baits. Live shrimp, live perch, live croaker, live mullet. Cut perch, cut sand trout, croaker work as well also. October is an easier time to target the bull reds. For the live bait, I would clip off the fish tail and fins with a scissor. You can use small hooks and shrimp to catch bait easily near the rocks.

Sure I can fill you in the details Chad!

Hey long time no see Jeff! Yeah I picked the weekdays to fish and was blessed with nice weather also with just the right amount of winds. Very light traffic on the week days. My Houston buddies said the weekend traffics at the NJ tip is pretty packed and you need to get there early.

I see several boats struggled to anchor because of the choppy seas. Man, my iPilot worked as design and everyone LOVED it!!!

Wow super nice Todd!! Looks like you needed a few red bulls, to fight those bull reds!!! Ha ha get it, get it!!

Super pics, and you've got memories for a lifetime.

GOOD TRIP ,I'LL BE IN THAT SPOT THIS WEEK AFTER THE FRONT GOES THROUGH.

Awesome pics and an awesome trip Todd! I officially envy you!!

Mike, I enjoy all your plumber jokes. Keep em coming

Doug, I see your name all over that spot. In all caps too. Go get em!

vERY nICe Todd ! fun fun fun ..

Nice.

Todd it looks like your crew had a great trip. Very nice fish !!!!