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[gulftrout]

And for today anyway, I believe that was the case. Still a beautiful sunrise with light winds, but no signs of bait or feeding fish. Maybe this front today will get a few fish moving into the area. At least, the higher that normal tides have brought plenty of life back into the shallow wetlands leading out to the pier! "Indian Point Bob" had his corner all to himself this morning.

[gulftrout]

While driving around today I noticed a "Texas Game Warden" doing his job, keeping an eye on a local boat ramp. He was parked where you could not see him until you had already pulled your boat out of the water. They are always out there somewhere, doing a "Tough" job for everyone, 24 hours a day!

[gulftrout]

Well, it's been five days since I have been on my morning walk at the pier. I had thought about taking the boat out, but I would be pressed for time if I wanted to make my afternoon tee time. When I arrived, I noticed that the only people in the area were either jogging or taking a morning walk, so I grabbed my rod and decided to give the pier a few casts. I did notice some drum looking scales at the first cleaning station, so there must have been a little action, sometime during the night. As I neared the "T" something busted through a school of finger mullet as I noticed the few birds in the area, flying around looking for something to eat. It only took me a few cast to realize that it was small skipjacks that were chasing that school of mullet around. After hooking several and finally landing one for bait at a later date, I headed out to the end of the pier. I was determined to pull at least one speck out of "Bob's" spot. One hour later, "Bingo" a fat 12" trout! The pier looked empty without "Indian Point Bob" fishing from his spot, in fact it was empty. As I was leaving I noticed a truck pull up with a kayak in the back. The fisherman got out and started putting something he was finding around the rocks on the small jetty, in a plastic zip-lock bag. After watching him a couple minutes, my curiosity got the best of me and I just had to ask. He said he was gathering algae for his college class. He also mentioned that he was probably going to head over to Redfish Bay to collect some sea grass and finish up by doing a little snorkeling around the Port A south jetty. He said he would have to identify the types of algae and sea grass for his class. He also said he noticed a school of mullet working right off the small jetty at Indian Point and might give the area a cast or two. Hopefully he got a nice trout for his efforts and "David," keep up the "GOOD" work! I hated to go home with just a small skipjack for bait. I noticed that the tides were still running very high and I thought that the "Portland Shoreline" just might hold a red or two near the bank. After casting for only 10 minutes while wading in calf deep water, I had a solid hit, no red, but a 15" speck!

[Dirtylove]

Fished the pier Thursday night/Friday morning. Water was pretty clear. Not much bait but the trout were there. They just wouldn't eat. The clear water made it easy to watch them swim up to your lure and then not hit it, or just bump it a little and run off. I wasn't using fluorocarbon, which may have helped, but I think it would have taken live bait to catch any. A guy was catching little sandies using fish bites on a popping cork and I caught one dink on a sparkle beetle. I didn't see anyone else catch anything.

[gulftrout]

[gulftrout]

I'm not sure how you guys fish the long rods with all the sorgasso weed in the water. The tide brought in another load as far as the eye could see.

[landlocked beachbum]

Nice report, thanks!

I caught my first fish from Indian Point pier at the age of 5: a nice red on a cane pole, the year was 1959!!!!
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Dave


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