By Ed Snyder/Outdoors
It’s more like SPRUNG than Spring with March Winds and April Showers getting all mixed up in May. Weathermen are blaming it on xx with anglers blaming the weather, but betwixt all this wind and rain the fishing situation at Fish Pass (when the tide is right) is speck-tacular. But WHEN is the tide right? For you bridge anglers, it is the early morning incoming or outgoing. For you Bayside bulkhead or Bay Waders, it’s on the morning or evening tide changes. For you Gulf Waders, it is best on the outgoing. In between, all of that trout action, or the other species such as reds, flounder, whiting, and drum, the fish are here folks you just have to wait for the right weather and tide conditions.
Speckled Trout
Bridge area early and Surf later on outgoing.
(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)
Few and far between catches but when they bite it’s “Katy’ bar the door”.
(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
Still hitting but much smaller average with an oversized bull now and then.
(Limit: 14 inch minimum to 30 inch maximum for 5 fish per day with one OVER 52 inches allowed)
Flounder
SLOW.
(Limit: 14 inch minimum for 5 fish per day limit)
Sheepshead
Much smaller.
(Limit: 15 inch minimum with 5 per day Creel)
Gafftop Catfish
A few coming in.
(Limit: 14 inch minimum for no limit creel)
Whiting/Croaker
Good whiting but croaker are slow.
(No Limits)
Sandtrout/Gulftrout
Not yet.
(No Limits)
Blue Claw Crab
Plenty of claws in the cut.
(Limit: 5 inches between points with no berry crabs (females with eggs) allowed)
Stone Crabs
Active near bridge.
(Limit: only right claw may be kept when 2-1/2 inches above first Knuckle)
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The Beach Triton
Tides for Rollover Pass, East Bay TX starting May 27, 2015.
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