Sea Wolf Park ... you can meet tons of flounder fisherman there

 

Thanks....any other place where Im not elbow to elbow??

 

Flounder scarce at Swp yesterday fished channel and bayside. Caught a couple juvies. Not much catching

 

If you are down with walk-in wading and aren't exclusively a shore-bird, I might suggest that there are still a few places where you can walk into waters near areas of marsh drains. At this point, still in the earlier stages of the run, when the flounder are still staging outside their summer feeding grounds, you are fighting crowds and missing out on good fish if you're at Seawolf. I would suggest West Galveston Bay. Look on the maps that show kayak launches and pick out a couple of places where you'll be able to access some marsh drains without a mile long wade. Sportsman's Road, Galveston ISP (a little muddy) and others can be very good when the flounder are staging. Even down near the pass, those flats can get thick with flounder, but be warned, they have a lot more room out there than at Seawolf, so you'll have to move around to find them, but wading a half mile one way and then back isn't going to kill you and is a lot more enjoyable than standing stationary, elbow to elbow at Rollover or Seawolf.

 

Not sure if you are land locked or not but if you are on the Bolivar side already then Frenchmans Road , in that area just inside of the west point area, can be pretty good.

 

Gig the beach. Can't go this weekend I'd be out there did you see the surf? Flat. They'll be there.

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Work the east side of the jetty at Bolivar, try to get it during the tide. I'd try gigging though, you only have a few more days till November so hurry!!!

 

You can walk into Colds Pass just west of San Luis pass. There's a road dead end and you can park there. Walk in and then wade the shoreline. The run in Colds will last longer this year than the run in Galveston Channel. There's been good movement all month in Galveston with some solid fish caught.. haven't seen the final push of big fish yet though... but I think it will be earlier than years before.

 

A couple of years ago I tried wading along the north side of the TCD for flounder during the run. On that day I kicked up several of them in knee deep water but I did not catch any. I also tried along Skyline and I caught several. They were all about 13" though. Tempted to try again this year.

 

You can catch them year round fyi

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When you look around there are a lot of flounder spots to fish, you don't have to go where the crowd is. Focus on those classic flounder ambush spots, bulkheads, pilings, rip rap, corners/points, cuts, passes and out on shallow flats when they are really feeding.
Marsh drains are killer as is any funnel down of the water flow. It seems they can be aggravated into biting when not actively feeding, and when they actively feed they are ferocious. Fish extra tight to structure when the water is not moving or they don't seem to be active.
When fishing long stretches of structure like bulkheads and rip rap really fish those spots that are just a little different, the rocks are bigger, or smaller, the wall or bulkhead has a slight dip, any break in the line of structure.
But cover it all as the bottom holds changes in structure you don't see.
It seems flounder will stack on top of each other in a tiny area like a depression on the bottom.
I caught 16 flounder in a row once fishing Fish Pass at PINS as it drained into the gulf, well above the surf the pass was a trickle and made a pond before spreading out to wash into the gulf. I cast the same cast covering the few feet of the middle of the pool. Taught me to keep a plugging a spot when I catch one.
When I was primarily a saltwater fisherman I used to catch flounder year round, not as many after most go out to spawn, but there are still a lot around.

 

We have been finding a ton of flounder in the first 50 years heading back into the marshes .. they seem to be thicker in marshes that are losing their grass (have floating grass) but they are also present in marshes that have lost their grass already ... they are tight tight to the grass lines. We pick them up when looking for reds that would hold in the grass lines

 

I saw a lot of flounder flipping out of the water going after bait in a Freeport/Surfside area marsh just off the ICW yesterday. Those fish in the marsh will have to travel out the ICW to get to the gulf. There are lots of places along the ICW in the Freeport and Surfside area to pull up and fish from the bank