Fishaholic (Jason) and I planned to fish one of our favorite areas for Trout and Redfish; through one of the conversations he had a wild idea. We were going to get full limits of Trout, Redfish, and Flounder for an upcoming cookout / fish fry. After thinking this over for while I began to understand what kind of effort and lack of sleep this trip would require but you only live once right! We arrived at our first location at 3am on Galveston�s West Bay and limited out on Trout and a few Redfish within 2 horus using soft plastics and Gulp worked over shell. A friend of ours (Adam) later joined us for the action around 4am. Just after 2 hours of fishing we off to a great start:
Sporadic action resumed until daybreak, it was now time to location #2 on Galveston�s East Bay to finish up on Redfish. Sunrise at Galveston Seawall on the way to East Bay.
Practicing the sight casting technique in the T160 didn�t pay off this time; the fish would not bite in the shallows.
The action was slow on East Bay but we finished out the Redfish count and wouldn�t you know it found another school of Trout in the process. I swear those fish were following us around; we caught over 60 Trout in approvimately 4 hours! The Trout were hitting 3� Gulp Shrimp under a Cajun Thunder popping cork almost every cast. These fish were schooling on a mud and shell flat just off of an ICW break in 3-5' of water.
Location #3 brought us to Bolivar Peninsula for some Flounder action. Boaters and waders were everywhere trying to land a few Flounder before the fall migration ends. The Flounder were holding tightly to structure and couldn�t pass up a weedless Gulp Swimming Mullet. Earlier in the day we ran into another kayaker (Bryon) and later found him at Bolivar with the same Flounder catching initiative!
An advantage to kayaking lends you very close access in and around structure where as a boat would have to anchor away from the structure. To locate fish a drifting technique was used, you could slowly drift near / over structure just lightly bumping the Gulp off the bottom.
To pass the non-bite periods the Dolphins were entertaining as they joined in the Flounder action. Dolphin will actually catch Flounder and toss them and play catch, very interesting to watch but too bad for the Flounder�.
The weather was perfect and the outgoing tide lasted all morning and into the afternoon. It was a great adventure and a great time spent with friends.
Recovering today and planning for the next trip!
