By Ed Snyder/Outdoors
Warming waters and baitfish are helping to improve the fishing action at Rollover Pass. Day-shift anglers are loading up on drum and whiting with a few sheepshead, flounder, and redfish in their boxes. Night-shift anglers are catching specks on the eve of the sunsets and on the early morning tides. The specks aren’t in the surf as yet but it won’t be much longer.
Speckled Trout
Key is tide change in the early morning or the evening. Hard or soft plastics doing best but live shrimp or finger mullet will do the job as well.
(Limit: 15 inch minimum for 10 trout with only one 25 inch trout per day allowed as part of your daily limit)
Redfish (Red Drum)
No hard runs but the surf is providing good action with the cut giving up a few slots and bulls as well.
(Limit: 20 inch minimum to 28 inch maximum for 3 reds per day – one over 28 inch red -plus bonus red- allowed when properly tagged in addition to your 3 fish limit)
Black Drum
The Spring drum run is easing but still active with plenty of keeper eaters being boxed up by anglers.
(Limit: 14 inch minimum to 30 inch maximum for 5 fish per day with one OVER 52 inches allowed)
Flounder
The Spring flounder run is still producing flatfish for the anglers but is slowing somewhat.
(Limit: 14 inch minimum for 5 fish per day limit)
Sheepshead
A few nice Sheepshead coming in mainly on live shrimp.
(Limit: 15 inch minimum with 5 per day Creel)
Gafftop Catfish
No Report.
(Limit: 14 inch minimum for no limit creel)
Whiting/Croaker
Whiting good for cut and surf anglers. Croaker also good but small in cut.
(No Limits)
Sandtrout/Gulftrout
No Report.
(No Limits)
Blue Claw Crab
Some good sized blues grabbing baits and chicken necks.
(Limit: 5 inches between points with no berry crabs (females with eggs) allowed)
Stone Crabs
Stonies are gathering for crabbers who like those tasty claws.
(Limit: only right claw may be kept when 2-1/2 inches above first Knuckle)
Miss Nancy’s Bait Camp
Crystal Beach Local News
www.FishingWorld.com
The Beach Triton
Tides for Rollover Pass, East Bay TX starting April 22, 2014.
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