Have next Friday off and totally forgot that I do and wondering what the fishing has been like in the subject line areas. Anybody have any recent reports? Very unlikely that I get down but a man can dream....

my buddy caught some keeper trout in the flour bluff flats one day last week

Fish are finally schooling up consistently on the flats and tailing. Water has been high the past few months. This storm will probably make it higher.

Just go. If you do t catch fish then you don't have to clean them.

That takes me back. I used to love reading Shannon Tompkins and Joe Doggett in the Chronicle. Moved from Houston to Austin many moons ago and hadn't thought of those guys or the reports in the Chronicle in a long time. Also used to occasionally listen to one of the AM radio stations where guys would call in and give reports, talk fishing. Good times!

I'm not a big fisherman, but I just left Port A and crossed Packary Channel. It was loaded w waders and a couple of boats.

I fished in a tournament in Rockport last weekend. Most everyone either lives there or fishes there most weekends. 30 boats. 4 people weighed in… 26 boats got blanked (me included). Even trying live bait and SGrems beloved Trout Support lures couldn't help me. My fishing partner was a 6 year old so I wasn't fishing super hard.

Fresh water from last weeks rains making its way down. Big slugs of freshwater displacing the fish.

Im in Galveston/Freeport area. Fishing was great! Then got purdy tough two fridays ago. Even the shrimpers weren't catching live baits. One in ten bait shops had any bait. Last Wednesday we did not catch a keeper.... all smalls. It is just now turning back around. Fished tournaments Friday and Saturday and it is finally picking back up.

This channel has some really good regular reports

go south I am told

You might also want to check out the Bite Me podcast. One of the guides is in that area and he shares some tips from time to time, dispersed throughout the entertaining BS of them all talking crap about each other. I like it. It reminds me of me and my fishing buddies getting together and doing the same in the truck on our way to the coast.

We had large numbers (over 100 a day) of small trout with some 23s and 24s mixed in, on Thursday and Friday over grass and potholes with suspending baits. We also had a decent topwater bite early and found some reds in the back lakes. Fish were all over the place. All the usual summer time haunts. Big fish were at a premium in most spots we fished, but there was also a ton of boat traffic, which I think shuts the older and smarter fish down.

Same pattern the weekend before as I had the rare occasion to fish two weeks in a row. That was nice since our weekend this last one was dissected by thunder cells and we looked like drowned rats at times.

On the subject of podcasts, Mill House has some good ones, and I enjoy Speckled Truth, and Laguna also. These last two are fairly conservation minded, so if that is not your thing, may want to leave them alone.

And the SGREM fishing report made me LOL...so true.