SAAG93 said:
Great info here. Thanks for sharing.
Family is renting a beach house next week in Galveston just west of East Beach. I don't have the set up to surf fish off the beach but I'm curios if anyone wade fishes the cuts between the sandbars. If so what types of fishing lures typically works best? Topwater, Crankbaits, Spoons?
How's the surf fishing this time of year? Is it wishful thinking I could get into some specs or a possible red?
I'm not a big long-distance, big red surf fisherman, so wading and fishing the guts is the only surf fishing I do. If the water is pretty calm and the tide is right, you can catch nice trout in the first gut right off the beach without getting your feet wet. I like using Nuclear or Electric Chicken mullet soft plastics, bounced slowly off the bottom. Mirrolures and spoons work too, just retrieve through the bite zone instead of bumping.
If you want to use live bait, of course shrimp are the easiest under a popping cork, or on the bottom with weight that allows them to cruise around. You'll get more bait-stealing croaker, hardheads and little sharks this way. Free-lining some live croaker will get you some bigger trout.
If the water is green, you can catch trout with just about anything. I've got a buddy that kills with a fly rod when it is calm.