Fished West Bay today and found a pretty good bite over shell in about 2 to 4′ of water. With a northeast wind blowing around 12 knots it made it a little difficult to throw topwaters out in the open bay. But that was OK as the Trout this morning were flat out hammering Saltwater Assassins in plum and chartreuse. Ended up fishing 2 shell pads today and both held fish. Keying in on Mullet and small slicks near the reefs were key to catching some really nice Trout to 5lbs. About 11am we hit one area along the north shoreline where we found some mid size slot Reds that where crushing small Super Spook Jrs. in the Jimmy Houston pattern. Hopefully the wind will cooperate through the weekend so we can beat’em up some more.

Tight Lines and Full Limits

Capt. Greg

A few pics from the last week or so

Trout and Reds

Capt. Greg

another great day

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The last few days out on the water has served up some rough conditions aswell as a tough bite.

Thursday March 24th

Todays forcast was suppose to be light winds to 10 knots out of the southeast. The morning started out with light winds but light out of the north. It didnt take long for the winds to jump up to 20 gusting to 25 knots out of the northeast. This pretty much wiped out any chances of catching any fish that have been holding  along the south shoreline. Before the wind kicked up we did box 4 or 5 Trout to 23″. Called it a an early day around 10am.

Saturday 26th

Met up with my party of Kevin, Chris, and Shane at the Texas City Dike around 530am. The weather forecast was calling for light winds early and gaining strength through out the day. When I arrived at the Dike around 5am I was greated with a stiff wind out of the southeast at 15 knots. I knew then we might be in for a tough day. At the first spot we hit it didnt take long for the Trout to start cooperating and everyone in the party hooked up right away. Unfortunatly the bite here didn’t last long. We strung maybe 6 Trout to 23″ on a mix of topwaters and Corky’s. After that the wind jumped up with a more westerly direction and made fishing a little on the difficult side. We did have a few bites here and there on some smaller Rat Reds and some smaller under sized Flounder but the Trout bite died for me after 745.

Overall this has been a pretty tough spring bite with no consistancy what so ever. Here today gone tomorrow. Hopefully this week they will start being a little more predictable.

Capt. Greg Francis

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Fishing report  3/20/11

Wednesday 3/16

Wednesday I had Frank and his son Alex out and for a half day trip and was it ever a tough bite. We waded several spots in East Galveston Bay but just couldn’t find a bite. Alex did manage to catch his first ever Speckled Trout while wade fishing. This was a nice Trout that weighed a little over 3 lbs. The wind was really not an issue today we just had a tough day and a tough bite.

Thursday 3/17

Thursday I had Brian, Mike, and Steve out and the bite started off a lot better than the day before. Within the first two hours we stuck close to 20 Trout on topwaters. All Trout were caught on a slow retreive working She Dogs around active /mullet. Trout were caught in 3 to 4′ of water over mud/sand bottom. Corkys were also effective later in the day when the topwater bite slowed down.

Friday 3/18

Friday I had Lance and Milo out for a half day trip.  The wind started blowing early and the bite was a slow one. We caught a few Trout early on artificials while drifting a reef on the upper end of West Bay. Decided to make a move to Chocolate Bay next where we cut some drift around some of the spoil reefs in Chocolate. Throwing Shrimp under popping corks we scratched out a hand full of Trout to 20″. The water in Chocolate look great and is holding some good fish right now for people wanting to get out and do some drift fishing around some of the reefs.

Saturday 3/19

Saturday Danny and myself  hit the Specktacular Tourney series fishing tourney. The day started off great as we both caught near 40 Trout in the 3lb range. All our fish were caught on Broken Back corkys and topwaters. We had good non stop action and even had 5 big fish on that would have put us in the money but it just wasn’t our day as we watch all our big fish pull of our hooks. It was very frusterating watching these big fish destroy our topwater one to have them come off and swim away. But we will be back!!!!

This fishing is in transition right now as we slowly get away from our winter time patterns. It has been really hit or miss right now. As the water temps warm the bite will be more consistant. The topwater action has greatly improved from last week. We have started seeing some awesome topwater action this week and will continue through April.

To book a trip cast me an email  at captgreg@saltwaterassault.net or call me at 409-939-1684

Capt. Greg

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This week has been a tough one! With the spring like temperatures and the water near the 70 degree mark our fish have moved out of the winter haunts and have started to scatter out into thier spring time patterns. March is a transitional period and the pattern can be at times a hard one to figure out.  This last Thursday and Friday was definatly a tough one. With a hard 15 to 18 knot north wind and the barometric pressure high. We struggled to catch a single fish. I think we may have had 5 bites for the day with 0 fish caught. It was a grind and a struggle.

Friday wasn’t much better as my party of 3 struggled to find  fish for the stringers. From 6am to noon we hit several spots while comming up empty.  Around 1pm I finally found a few fish wanting to cooperate. It wasn’t pretty but we did manage to scratch out a few Trout, 2 Reds, and a very nice Flounder. These fish were caught wading a small shell pad with softer mud edges. Soft plastic Bass Assassins in plum/char accounted for all the fish in about 3 to 4′ of water,

Saturday the bite was on from the start and a quick limit was had within 45 minutes.  All these Trout to 20″ were caught once again on plum/char Assassins over shell in 3 to 4′ of  water. Saturday mornings bite was definatly a good one as we probably caught 15 to 20 Trout in a short amount of time. These fish Saturday were caught  over shell keying in on active bait in the water.

With the warming temperature comming the fishing will only get better and the topwater bite will be in full swing. We have been getting some topwater action now but its not “ON” just yet.  I would guess by next week you will see more topwater action in my reports.

I will be on the water just about every day this week and will make a report daily…..

Capt. Greg

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Capt. Greg Francis and Danny popovich AKA Dpop take 1st in the 2nd round of the 2011 “Speck”tacular series. Next tourney will be March 18th.

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