By Captain Bryan Brawner
Fall is finally here in East Bay now with the first major frontal passage. Water temperature dropped 10 degrees real fast and we had the first low water advisory of the season. Even though this kept us off the water for a few trips and set back fishing conditions for the short term, we needed this to kick start some fall action through December. With the

By Captain Bryan Brawner
Although we are in one of my favorite times of the year to fish, the weather conditions have us timing our trips between fronts and good tidal movements in order to be successful. Afternoons have produced better fishing and water conditions. The bait is plentiful which has kept the action going all over the bay from marsh areas to

By Captain Bryan Brawner
Everything was back to normal quickly on East Bay with the high storm tides actually helping the water conditions. Speckled trout are present on most mid bay reefs with soft plastics worked slowly over shell working the best, especially when the tide is weak. Birds are working some through the bay now with more keepers showing up under

By Captain Bryan Brawner
We have had a couple of fronts and northeast winds for the last week. Another surge/ high tide event is now coming for the end of the week. Not many changes now but stay tuned! We will eventually get to fall conditions.

By Captain Bryan Brawner
Since the storm surge, high waters have receded quickly. With everything cleaned up, I have had the opportunity to go out for a couple of afternoons to scout East Bay. The water has excellent clarity and salinity and there was active bait throughout the bay. Birds are beginning to work some in mid bay although there are tons of gafftops

By Captain Bryan Brawner
It looks like we will miss any lasting negative changes in East Bay from this latest storm. I expect the waters to be in good shape by next week. I’ll post a report after I’m back on the water next week. I now have an opening for an on the water class this weekend.

By Captain Bryan Brawner
Galveston East Bay conditions are continuing to improve each day now although we have rescheduled some trips due to some strong NE winds. I will take it though as this is an ideal pattern for this time of year! Fish are in a good late summer/early fall pattern with some birds working sporadically in the

By Captain Bryan Brawner
Galveston East Bay is in exceptionally good shape after dodging the bullet from the hurricane. There was a small tide surge but I think it helped the overall health of East Bay. Southwesterly winds were blowing hard for a good part of the following week but the winds turned from the northeast by Friday and the holiday weekend leaving the water

By Captain Bryan Brawner
I have taken my boat out for planned maintenance and upgrades. Due to the storm, I will delay putting it back at the boat slip. As of writing this report, it doesn’t seem likely that I will be back for several days. I will resume trips and reports as soon as we can safely return and get on the water. As long as there is no major flooding involved, the fishing should

By Captain Bryan Brawner
The speckled trout remain scattered but present on most East Bay reefs with no big concentration or schools anywhere yet. We have done a lot of running and mainly keyed on slicks around shell to get any keepers, with Down South Plastics working better than anything including shrimp. We conducted a couple of classes this week and as of

By Captain Bryan Brawner
This week we conducted a couple of our on the water classes along with regular fishing charters so we ran all ends of East Bay. The water in most of the bay had excellent water clarity and salinity. There was just not much bait activity or tidal movement with lower tides and the full moon. I did note some shrimp showing up in the back of the bay even though

By Captain Bryan Brawner
It’s getting time to start looking forward to switching gears and getting this summer behind us. Hunting seasons begin in just a few weeks and the best times for fishing Galveston East Bay will be here soon! Even though fresh water continued to deteriorate water conditions into early summer, now I think it is setting up to be an exceptional fall like we haven’t

By Captain Bryan Brawner
Despite some tough bay conditions we were able to put together a good box of decent size specks on the days we went out last week. The trout are active but scattered on mid bay reefs when the water is not dirty. Live shrimp under a popping cork have worked the best when they are available. The jetties and west bay have continued to be

By Captain Bryan Brawner

With strong persistent west winds we canceled and took off last week. We will return to running trips weather permitting this week and have a new report with updates next week.

By Captain Bryan Brawner
As I expected, we started last week with west and southwest winds over caution criteria which means East Bay was mostly rough and muddy. The winds eased down by the end of the week and we were able to put together good boxes of keepers although we had to cull numerous throwbacks. East bay was recovering steadily and the water

By Captain Bryan Brawner
We had a very windy week heading up to the holiday weekend. Fishing was tough with some 20+ mph sustained SW wind through mid week. Most of East Bay was left dirty by the end of the week. We did have a great outing with Police officers and Texas Boys Outdoors! We caught a lot of fish but not many keepers. Some of the party

By Captain Bryan Brawner
The rains every day last week really did not hurt the fishing conditions of most of Galveston East Bay in the long run although the runoff to Trinity Bay remains on the high end. I used up my 9 lives fishing through thunderstorms in my younger days. We canceled most of our trips and classes last week due to weather conditions/lightening threat, but

By Captain Bryan Brawner
We have finally gotten rid of the worst of the fresh water in Galveston East Bay and fishing has really turned on this week. I am just hoping that the tropical moisture forecasted for this week is not excessive to where it sets us back more. For those that have taken my class, we are in a “mid summer pattern” in the bay. Trout are good on most

By Captain Bryan Brawner
I am just adding this note to my last week’s report as conditions haven’t changed much. We were mostly blown out this week. The wind pumped across the bay from the Northeast most of the week and we were only able to run one class with a couple of trips being cancelled. The water was rough and dirty but the salinity levels are

By Captain Bryan Brawner
I held off posting my report as long as possible to monitor the impact that the tropical system would have on the bay. It looks like it will be a benefit to us and actually help drop the salinity levels more. After the winds die down mid week and tides return to normal, bay waters should clear up quickly with a good early summer pattern starting. Everything has

By Captain Bryan Brawner
Sounding like a broken record, but it looks like that we will possibly be continuing to deal with fresh water run off in Galveston East Bay for several more days. At the time of writing, Lake Livingston Dam discharge is at 23000 cfs but expected to be increased as the Trinity River rises due to flooding rains continuing up north. Local runoff is

By Captain Bryan Brawner
No changes from last week, however, there definitely will be some changes after the forecasted rain this week.
Fishing had really started the transition into a good consistent late spring pattern this week but then here comes the flooding rains over the weekend. Hopefully it will flush out quickly this week. We did not get as much as they forecasted

By Captain Bryan Brawner
Fishing had really started the transition into a good consistent late spring pattern this week but then here comes the flooding rains over the weekend. Hopefully it will flush out quickly this week. We did not get as much as they forecasted but the rainfall up north that ends up in the Trinity river is the thing to watch. The bay water salinity has tested

By Captain Bryan Brawner
As of the time that I am writing this report, winds are forecasted to be 10-15 knots with gusts to 25 for the next several days. 15 knots = 17.26 mph. This means choppy conditions for most mid bay reefs. On the bright side, a constant wind direction will eventually clear some protected bay areas. Now, there are fish out on most

By Captain Bryan Brawner
Weather disturbances were the driving force of fishing conditions again last week with the passage of a front and 70+ mph winds clocked at the jetty. The water was pretty messed up but some specks were caught later in the week with the strong incoming tides. I ran classes when the wind permitted this week and found most of the active

The Bay conditions the last few weeks have been dominated by fronts every few days with strong winds and cooler temps in the aftermath of each disturbance. This is great for yard work but really keeps the fish on the move with changing water conditions and small windows of opportunity. Water temps went from 79.5 to 69 in just a couple of days and as of Saturday it was back to the low 80’s.

From Easter weekend through this week we are going to have elevated winds which will turn from the north and really slow down fishing for a few days. I have some classes scheduled for the weekend and will be anxious to get back out. I really don’t think it will impact the fishing much as it will warm back up quickly. It will just extend successful days for those who have been producing good

Everything remains about the same in the Bay
I haven’t been out this week and everything remains about the same in the Bay this week on reports and conditions. We have had a lot of wind and are looking for more this week. Good time to service your fishing equipment! Fishing near areas of tide movement on the protected shorelines has produced some solid trout for waders during