Think'in about Fish'in
The site linked below shows how to tell where the sandbars are based on where waves break. It talks about stripper fishing in Maryland but the beach in the gulf is very similar, it also has suggestions for lure locations around the breaks in sandbars and the resulting rip-tides.
How to read the breakers and find fishy spots
posted by steven-hoffman | 2:41 PM
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Discussions with other fisher-folk indicate that heavy rains should push bait and shimp out of the bays this weekend, making the surf busy.
I got an email from Z detailing wind and tides. Saturday and Sunday morning 6-8am or so they are predicting a wind to come off the shore and blow out to the Southeast.
High tide each day is slated for 5am. That means that the outbound wind should co-incide with the deep water and the ebbing tide.
In my opinon, if conditions actually do all that, we should be able to find some fish in the surf.
Seems you are in the same boat I am, having difficulty doing much other than contemplate fishing strategy. At times I wish I did not plan fishing trips. Not to say I don’t want to go, just wish someone would stop by the house, lay on the horn and say “get yer gear, we are goin to the coast”. I’d drop what I was doing, grab a couple of poles, cooler, castnet, and a chair and away we’d go. But no, I have to sit around for days on end being unproductive as all get out and contemplating every detail and drawing up gant charts and other schematics of how the fishing trip should proceed. I wish it’d be Friday already. We still planning on Sargent?
Matagorda is the only beach on the upper coast that I have seen any kind of structure (not including river mouths or cuts).
High Island, Galvetraz, Surfside, Freeport, Sargent = no structure.
so... does that mean we are going to Matty? Brian, make the call, my theory is to be south of a river mouth and have access to getting further south of it in case the fresh water is running too strong. The rains will be pushing shrimp etc out of the bays, just got a call from one of the guys saying they were cast netting 6-10 count shrimp at the Pass (San Louie)they loaded up 45-50# of shrimp in about 2 hrs. Everything comming out of the bays/rivers washes south before dispersing, so hence my thought of Sargent. With Matty, seems we should be south of the Colorado as opposed to north of it. I whole heartedly agree structure is good, but how do we key in on bay/river out flow and still have access in Matty?
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