The Trout Are Biting!

​It’s been some years since my childhood friend, Ryan Huffman and I fished together.  As kids, whenever we had a chance to get out on Galveston Bay to catch some keepers, we were there!  So, when he came into town this week, and reports started flooding in of trout bites and catches, I knew we had to get back on Galveston Bay to catch some keepers.


Ryan, his son, Blake, Captain Juan, and I left the dock before 6am on Tuesday, and we headed to the wells, and let’s just say it was a busy morning on the boat!  We caught a variety of fish and about 50 speckled trout at eight different wells!  Most of them, though, were under 15 inches and had to be thrown back.  We ended up with 12 keepers. The moral of the story, though?  The trout are here, and it’s a great time to get out there and catch some!

Here are a few tips for you:

1. My biggest tip:  Know the tides.  Trout usually bite when the current starts moving and is moving, and you need to be out on the water and ready when the tide changes.  Do not miss the tide.
2. Trout *typically* never bite on a dead slack tide.  However, you will get some bottom fish feeding on that dead slack tide, like gaff top, drum, sheepshead, hardheads.
3. You can be at a good spot where there are trout, but if you are there on a dead slack tide, you don’t know if the trout will bite.  You have to wait for the tide to move, so be patient and again, know the tides!
4. If you are at a well and start catching trout that are throwbacks because of their size, move to another well.
5. With Live Shrimp, I suggest fishing under a popping cork such as an Attract A Fish rig made by Windy Marshall that we sell at Eagle Point and with Live Croakers fish on the bottom lightly weighted just enough to get to and feel the bottom.

Take advantage of the good fishing this week.  You can catch our sought after Speckled Trout, but you can also fill your boat with drum, sheepshead, and redfish, which have all been caught in a decent abundance this summer.   That’s what we did when we fished with my friend, Ryan, and he and his son went home with enough fish for a huge fish fry for his entire family.