Around Matagorda Bay

Weekly Newsletter
and
Fishing Report

Since this week hasn't been a really good week for fishing, I may as well start off with something to laugh about --

Henry's son, David, burst into the house, crying. His mother asked him what the problem was. "Daddy and I were fishing, and he hooked a giant fish. Really big. Then, while he was reeling it in, the line busted and the fish got away." "Now come on, David," his mother said, "a big boy like you shouldn't be crying about an accident like that. You should have just laughed it off." "But that's just what I did, mommy."

The shorelines in both bays are probably your best bets this weekend. Looks like the south shoreline will be your best bet on Friday, but Saturday should bring a wind shift back from the north with a chance for rain. Protected areas are what you'll be looking for - the Diversion Channel, upriver, Crab Lake entrance. Even though soft plastics and topwaters are usually the ticket, you'll see more fish biting on live shrimp under a popping cork this weekend. If you decide to go with the soft plastics, try throwing something in a pumpkinseed/chartreuse combination, red shad, or roach colors. You might try some live shrimp on the cuts and sloughs leading into the bays and be lucky enough to take home a few flounder. Oyster Lake is starting to produce, although most of the fish being caught are small in size.

Come on down and give it a try!

Good Luck!

See ya next week,
Webmaster

Thursday, 05/16/02

It was a slow day for fishing down here. There were a few reports of trout and reds being caught over in West Matagorda Bay, but there weren't many fishermen out.

Wednesday, 05/15/02

There was a fair amount of action over in West Matagorda Bay today. Drifting in the middle of the bay produced a few limits of trout when using live shrimp as bait. There were also some trout caught along the south shoreline using rootbeer/chartreuse Sand Eels. There were some nice catches of trout along the south shoreline at the east end of the bay, too. Drifting in Oyster Lake produced some reds, trout, flounder and sheephead, but they were mostly undersized.

Tuesday, 05/14/02

The wind is still keeping the fishermen out of the bays. However, we had one report of a fishing guide and his party bringing in some redfish, flounder, and sheephead which they caught on live shrimp.

Monday, 05/13/02

No fishing report available today because of the wind and weather.

Sunday, 05/12/02

Another bad day of fishing - there were a few reds brought in from West Matagorda Bay - wind is still keeping the fishermen "at bay"...!

Saturday, 05/11/02

Fishing was pretty bad today - slim pickings...I didn't see any of the fishing guides going out, and there were only a few other fishermen out in the wind -- and very few fish were caught.

Friday, 05/10/02

The Greens Bayou area is still the area to be in, but the wind is keeping most of the fishermen at home. Those who are brave enough to venture out and wade using soft plastics have been able to bring home fair stringers of trout with a few flounder and reds mixed in. The wind was still really bad today, though. No report from the fishing pier.

Thursday, 05/09/02

West Matagorda Bay produced nice stringers of trout for wadefishermen on Norton Sand Eels in a rootbeer/chartreuse combination.