Primary target - Fishing for Bull Red's along the Galveston Jetties and surrounding areas.
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Things were fast and furious at times today. Here is Danny with a double of two bull reds. While he was venting one - another Rod took off and he grabbed it. I really do feel bad about the bad focus of the picture.
I have been doing some research on the History of Galveston's North and South Jetties. Here is a paper published about 20 years ago - very informative - a little technical, but still an amazing find.
Construction and Rehabilitation History of the Galveston JettiesCostal Hydraulics Laboratory Fact SheetGalvestonHarbor Jetty, GalvestonTexaswww.tpub.comTech Report 91874-1879 The first attempt at constructing jetties was begun by placing cement covered gabions over distances of 9,700 and 2,200 ft. on the north(Bolivar Point jetty) and south (Fort Point jetty) sides of the inlet, respectively. An additional 500 ft of north jetty was constructed of timber piling at its landward end. The gabions were 6 ft high and wide, from 6 to 12 ft long, and filled with dredged sand once positioned. The jetties were submerged, extending no higher with the majority from 5 to 6 ft below than mean low water (mlw). The gabionades were unsuccessful in either securing a deeper navigable channel or in acc…
My family and I were fortunate to take a 5-day Cruise on Carnival Ecstasy out of Galveston January 7th-12th. On this cruise we had stops at Progreso and Cozumel. While the fishing is better in Cozumel, as a family we made reservation at Chakanaub Park to swim with the dolphins - see video below.
That left fishing for Progreso. I asked many questions, did alot of searching to find Oscar Escobedo who arranged a fishing trip for us in Progreso. He picked us up at the end of the Progreso Pier and drove us about 20 minutes to the marina we fished out of. The boat was a 27ft Fiberglass Panga that was about 6ft across. It had a Yamaha 200 on it - plenty boat for us to fish out of.
We went out about 20 miles - PaPo (Baltazar) the captain had a hand-held GPS and anchored on over some large structure that held fish. We caught Bee-liners, Strawberry Grouper, Rock Grouper, Spade Fish, Spanish Macs, and a huge String Ray. I also saw a school of Cobia floating along the top ... casted to the…
We had a great day out on the water today with Dave Kendzior and a coworker of his, Ken. This was their first trip out to the Jetty with us and both caught the biggest Red Fish they had ever caught.
On the day, we caught 8 Bull Reds, Several Shark and a nice Stingray.
We fished a tepid incoming tide, then an outgoing tide. We didn't catch but one whiting for bait, using Shad the rest of the time. The water was clear for this time of the year, still about 83 degrees. We stayed anchored up around the Boat Cut, fishing in about 27-31 foot of water.
Here is a video of the trip with pictures to follow: