John Luna of San Antonio, John Brymer and son John Brymer of Pleasanton and Matt Brymer of San Antonio with a 25” red and a 25” trout from the ICW on a very windy day. Capt. Bob Hill

We had a little bit of a reprieve from the wind a few weeks ago but for the last 8 or 10 days it has been back to the 20 – 25 mph category. It doesn’t even die down much overnight. When the wind was down we were finding good numbers of trout, reds, black drum and even an occasional flounder or two. The forecast is for the wind to give us a break about the time this issue should be out. We’ll see.

The San Antonio Bay and Espiritu Santo Bay reefs have been unfishable under the strong south and southwest gales. The water is off color everywhere except tight to the south shorelines. Even the ICW has been off color but we have caught some trout, reds and “puppy” drum in the canal on live shrimp.

The Back Lakes haven’t been giving up much. The wind has a tendency to blow the water out of the lakes when it blows this strong from the south so its been hard to get in to most of the lakes. When you do get in, the water color is not that bad but the grass makes fishing a little tough.

The jetties have been close to unfishable, and certainly uncomfortable, most of the time. Most boats are struggling to catch much. The water color has gone downhill under the pressure of strong wind and high seas.

Lets hope that the forecasters are right and we see a let up by the weekend. There are a couple of tournaments this weekend. One is an offshore tourney so those guys really need a break to have a good tournament.

Max and Joann Estrada Jr. of Flatonia, James Freytag, Kacey Hodges of LaGrange and Steven and Rosie Velasquez of Moulton caught some drum and pompano at the jetties. -Capt. Bob Hill