Where and How do you yall fish for flounder in Galveston.

[Big Bill]

Ok I know it is not hunting but I always seem to get a good answer here so here goes. I want to fish the galveston area for flounder. I was raised on offshore fishing and know I need help in rigging for an locating the fish in the bays and bayou. So any suggestions would be great. I will be in a boat and was planning on going out Sat and Sunday.

Thanks in advance, Bill

[Raleigh]

Try the channel side of Pelican Island right by the sub and cast into the rocks. Also the cut on the north jetty depending on how much tide is moving through. This is dependent of getting out on a open boat ramp.

good luck, I know how to bake a mean stuffed flounder.

[Bones]

Try the channel side of Pelican Island right by the sub and cast into the rocks. Also the cut on the north jetty depending on how much tide is moving through. This is dependent of getting out on a open boat ramp.

good luck, I know how to bake a mean stuffed flounder.

Work the whole channel from the sub to the Pelican Island bridge. You will find fish there somewhere. These days and this time of year, I miss that place

Steve

[Bonesplitter]

Good advise above, use a carolina rig with a finger mullet or mud minnow. just enough weight to let it roll with the current or try dragging it slooowly if there is no tidal movement. When they hit give them time to eat it, dont prematurely set the hook. Jigs will work well too but more consistent with live bait. If it gets real cold offats bayou is hard to beat for trout with a good ole 51m mirrolure. let it sink a bit and twitch reeaall slow.

[Russ81]

Anywhere there is deep water close to a cut going into the marshes or a hole near the same. "Deep" is a figurative word here, the one I'm hitting in CC is about 4-5' deep next to a boat channel

[Joey~AP]

All nite with locomotive lights off of Sea Wolf Park.

[Big Bill]

Thanks, I will give the park and the rocks a try first and then mabey fish at night if it is not freezing.

[AtTheWall]

My favorite winter-time Galveston Flounder hot spot was just inside the South Jetties, fishing Coast Guard Galveston's seawall, mooring piers and that hot little sandbar bottomed cove, to the left of the last Coast Guard mooring pier (not seen in the pic below-right side of this photo). The cove goes from shoreline shallow to way deep, all within in 60 yards with the piling structure of the mooring pier at the mouth of the cove.

Across the channel is Pelican Island.



My winter time flounder fishing tactics are pretty simple and work anywhere on the Texas Gulf Coast. I simply rig two rods, one with a leadhead jig/minnow tail setup and the other, fishfinder rig (some call it Carolina Rig) with a 3/0 hook and finger mullet/mud minnows. Any boat dock with pilings, nearby rocks and shallow water just a cast away holds flounder. One technique I used in Downtown Port Aransas Texas, the main marina area is.....seawall walk the bulkheads bounce jigging a leadhead jig up tight. I also cast to each and every piling and work both sides slow and close fishing plastics. They will thump a jig with a feel that resembles a blue claw crab holding onto a piece of cut bait...steady pressure but no movement (generally) and thats when I drop my rod tip down giving about 3ft of slack...reel the slack out and bam. Typically I'm hooked up but if I do miss, I reel up quickly and go to rod two. Rod two simply gets the live bait setup tossed right in the spot I missed the hit fishing plastic. It typically doesn't take more than a couple of minutes to follow-up on the one that missed your plastic offiering.

Using this technique, I've covered a ton of water fan casting on location with plastic to find them and then shift gears to clean up.

[hoghead]

with a gig and a light

[AtTheWall]

One more Galveston or anywhere Texas jetty trick for Jetty style flounder fishing.

The Galveston South Jetties, beach side or channel side as well as Port Aranasas, Isabel, Mansfield or O'Connor jetties hold winter time flounder. Fishing the rocks for flouder is a major challenge, you can't fish tight where they are and any cast out beyond and worked up in tight typically break off BUT....you can fish the rocks tight using this little technique.

The Long Pole Flounder Pounder technique: Basically I take a long 10-15ft surf rod and stick a small baitcasting reel, spooled with 25lb test mono on it. The small reel on a huge long surf rod is more of a weight saving feature than anything for all day rock hopping. You can use a standard surf casting reel and size the reel up but it adds weight to how I fish. I typically use an ABU 7000 with my drag locked down tight to fish as mentioned below.....

With this long rod setup, 25lb mainline mono, you simply tie a 3/0 - 4/0 hook directly onto your main line, no weight, and bait up a live finger mullet or mud minnow. I then slice a small filet off of a dead finger mullet or mud minnow or eadd a small strip of squid and stick that on the hook with my live bait. This will add additional scent to your live bait offering....bait swims around...a little additional cutbait or squid for flavor....deadly.

To fish this rig, no casting involved. Simply reel your hook up close to the rod tip and stick the rod tip down tight against the jetty rocks, inside those little tight coves you know hold flounder and let your rod tip hit the sand bottom. Slowly let out 2-5ft of line and let your bait swim around in the little rock pocket zone. Once Mr. Flounder snaps and takes your bait, don't reel the line in...simply raise the rod tip up and swing it up and over to make the land away from the waters edge. Two people make the land a lot easier when two long pole side by side. You never reel them in...no need to and your chances of snagging are next to nil. Just make sure you never let out too much line....keep things tight and close near the rod tip.

This same long rod technique applies to sheepshead fishing the rocks in tight as well.

[Big Bill]

Thanks Atthewall I will give this area a try as well.