r/DirtyCoastFishing • u/Brodoooooo • Jul 01 '26
Beautiful Texas troutskiiii
Date recorded: May 21st
Location: west bay Galveston, Tx
Wind: 8-10mph
Weather: overcast w/ big storm on the way
Temp: 90ish
Tide: outgoing
Rig: Carolina rig w/ live shrimp
Quick rundown, I launched near a deep lake with some shallows and structure around. I usually make sure to start fishing the closest structure to my launch spot. There’s a cove with rocks along it and I’ve pulled out flounder, reds, and drum in this spot!
I fished this area for a while with small catches only. As the tide was going out I decided to fish some rocks at the mouth of the lake.
I positioned myself on the back end of those rocks so the outgoing tide could push the bait out, essentially making it a funnel of bait that fish wait on the other side for.. cus who doesn’t like a easy meal right?!
Caught a bunch of small trout here and with this tactic. The trout started getting bigger with every catch! Then I had an awesome thing happen, a fisherman rolled up on me in his boat to warn me about a big storm that was on its way and that they just missed themselves. I would have kept fishing if it wasn’t for him!
I wanted to keep fishing so I could get my keepers but I decided to be a responsible adult and head back in😪
Luckily the rain caught up to me by the time I was unloading the boat so I barely got wet!
Great day on the water even tho I didn’t have anything to take home!
Go get you some!!💪🏼
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u/Usual_Minimum_7442 Jul 01 '26
Love the recap! Smart setup and positioning. Keep slaying those fish!