By Ed Snyder/Outdoors
Cooling waters insure hotter fishing action at Rollover Pass for flounder, reds, and speckled trout as pods of shrimp pass thru to the Gulf. BUT anglers beware as the 2 flounder per day conservation phase kicked in on Saturday (Nov-1). This conservation phase for flounder will be November l through December 15 before reverting back to the

By Ed Snyder/Outdoors
The extended Indian summer weather was a definite plus factor for anglers visiting Rollover Pass for the Annual Fall Flounder run. Many flounder are being caught but only a few keepers are being boxed. This next cool down at the end of the week should get the larger females running- BUT- Dredging in November when the flounder limit drops from

By Ed Snyder/Outdoors
Beautiful Texas Fall like weather has finally embraced Rollover Pass, and along with it hoards of anglers looking for the fun of catching fish. Golden croaker, redfish, and flounder are providing items of fun along with whiting, speckled trout, and drum. Predicted cool fronts will further guarantee the promise of “Fish Pass” as finicky critters make their

By Ed Snyder/Outdoors
With summer-like conditions returning last week and with it summer-like fishing patterns, night-time again became the right time for anglers fishing under lights. This week’s cool down from the cold front should revitalize day time fishing action. Mostly the smaller male flounder were actively moving through the pass on their way to Gulf

By Ed Snyder/Outdoors
The adversity of weather this past week regulated the ups and downs of the fishing meter. But the cool front this weekend made it all come together with several species such as redfish, flounder, drum, speckled trout, and golden croaker making strong runs. Especially the golden croaker run that put hand sized to man sized critters in angler

By Ed Snyder/Outdoors
We had a celebrity here at the pass this weekend as Actress Susie Stillwell of Los Angeles, Star of the Star Trek series as Klingon Princes Horokd-Rah. Miss Stillwell was here spending time with her Houston family fishing at Rollover Pass. Redfish in the surf and cut have been the key for some great fishing action. Golden croaker are now coming

By Ed Snyder/Outdoors
The redfish run is still producing rats, slots, and bulls for both day and night anglers. Recent rain runoffs have not hit the pass as of this writing, so can’t predict the outcome. Specks are mainly a night shift activity but surf waders are finding a few up and down the surf as well as in the cut around the bridge. Golden croaker are beginning to show up in

By Ed Snyder/Outdoors
The Redfish run is on folks providing both day and night action. This spot-tail fishing action should last 2 to 3 weeks. Flounder action is hit or miss right now with 1 out of 5 being a keeper. Specs are still around but smaller averages with some 20-plus inchers near the bridge and in the surf. Shark action is heating up with plenty of stringer snipers

By Ed Snyder/Outdoors
The fishing action really turned on this past week with anglers catching redfish, trout, and flounder. Early runs of reds and flounder seem to be occurring for the cut, the surf, and the bay. Included in the action were great runs of spanish mackerel, skip-jack, sand trout, black drum, with a scattering of pompano. The flounder are beginning to show

By Ed Snyder/Outdoors
Heat, wind, and fire were dampened by lots of rain to finish out the week here at Rollover, but despite a previous slow down on fishing action, the Labor Day weekend saw early runs of redfish that normally wouldn’t occur until mid-September. Along with the early run of spot-tails were croaker, bull whiting, sand and gulf trout, drum,

By Ed Snyder/Outdoors
This past week’s fishing action started out slow but improved with each tidal flush. The key to positive fishing action is EARLY and LATE. Night shift action is fair to good according where you set your lights. Day time action occurring from 6 am through noon for the Gulf side or Bay side bridge anglers and bay waders. Surf is giving up some bull reds to

By Ed Snyder/Outdoors
Wild and wooley incidents occurred here at the pass this past week. We had one wade angler stepping on a stingray while fishing the surf causing him great pain and heading for the hospital for surgery and treatments. Another wader mounted a piling to fish for trout, and not long after loading his stringer a big shark chomped onto his trout, yanking

By Ed Snyder/Outdoors
Despite last week’s rain events and off color tides, the Pass recovered nicely with sandy green tides attracting TONS of baitfish with a scattering of shrimp. BIG TROUT in the cut 6 pm Saturday feeding on large shad. Many catches were boxed. Night-shift AND Day-shift anglers were enjoying the feeding spree of trout and reds. Surf waders having fun

By Ed Snyder/Outdoors
The beginning of last week proved to be the peak of fishing action for trout, reds, and flounder. Then mid-week monsoon rains put the kabawsh on the action. As of Sunday, the fishing action still hasn’t improved, but night-shift anglers had some good to great action. Hopefully this weeks flushing tides will clear the bad water out and bring the

By Ed Snyder/Outdoors
Monsoon rains conditioned the bite for Rollover last week with INCHES of the wet stuff dumped on our area. But now, as we start evaporating into our humidities for the dry out phase, the already wet fish are coming out to play. Reds, drum, whiting, croaker, and flounder are making their angler encores with the spotlight zeroing in on the speckled trout. The cut

By Ed Snyder/Outdoors

Summer is definitely here and along with it are the summer fishing patterns. The most action is occurring at night under the lights of the night-shift anglers. Daytime activity is mainly limited to the morning bite but changing tides throughout the day provides enough action to keep it interesting.

By Ed Snyder/Outdoors
Hit or miss action all week with mostly the incoming tides producing speck and sandy action for night-shift anglers with surf or cut speck action for the day-shifters. Flounder were steady but not plentiful along bay-side bulkheads and rollover bay. Anglers enjoyed an unusually cool July 4th weekend with North and Northeast winds. The weeds are still

By Ed Snyder/Outdoors
As they say, “Some day heroes” and “Some day Zeroes”. And so went the Pass! The beginning of the week found trout anglers, both day and night, hooking up with some great trout action. But then the second half of the week found dirty tides filled with tons of weeds with high winds adding to the down-swing. Only smallish low quality fish were being caught

By Ed Snyder/Outdoors
Weeds are still a problem at Rollover but anglers are learning to deal with it. Surf waders are learning to fish the edges of weed mats to catch their specks and bulkhead anglers within the cut are getting around the problem as well…like the two seasoned flounder pounders who punch holes in the grass to drop their baits in to catch flatties. We don’t know

By Ed Snyder/Outdoors
This past week had its ups and downs but it looks like an upswing is now occurring with improved fishing action. Specks and sand trout are showing up in numbers for the night-shift anglers. Day-shifters are enjoying improved fishing for surf-waders angling for specks. Cut anglers are seeing a revived Bull Drum fishery along with Gafftop,

By Ed Snyder/Outdoors
The first part of the week anglers were hampered by matted sea weeds that almost filled the pass; then anglers found ways to fish the grass mats which slowly gave up some quality specks and flounder. Most of the trout action was out front in the gulf with surf anglers and pole sitters catching near limits of quality trout. Bay side bulkheads also

By Ed Snyder/Outdoors
WEEDS, especially of the sargassum variety, are causing severe problems at the pass and along our coastal shores, BUT there is absolutely NOTHING we can do about it! Somehow the anglers are working around this irritation and catching fish. The fish ARE still there under the weed mats but are hard to catch. All we can do is fish when the

By Ed Snyder/Outdoors
Summer is almost here and along with it comes improved fishing and crabbing. The stones have been amazing with huge claws to 7 inches and the blues are showing up to 6 inches point to point. The specks are finally in the surf hitting plastics and live baits. Big shark are also making the shark anglers happy and the surf-waders

By Ed Snyder/Outdoors
Last week (hopefully) breathed its last “chill” spell on our waters. With the warmth and humidity replacing the record breaking chill offs, the fishing action for Rollover and the surf should normalize. As of this writing, the specks, reds, and flounder were finding their way into anglers creels.

By Ed Snyder/Outdoors
The beginning of last week the reds, specks, flounder, and drum were loading angler coolers. But then huge mats of sargassum weed moved in to stunt the fishing action. As of this writing, the weeds are still a problem. The trout, reds, flounder, and drum are still there BUT anglers can’t get at them due to the heavy weed banks. We don’t know when

By Ed Snyder/Outdoors
Warming waters and great weather should get our fishing action back in order. The Gulf shrimp haven’t showed up as yet but when they do the fishing action at the pass will be HOT!! Finger mullet, shad, bait croaker, and mud minnows are now in the cut with the expected shrimp run coming soon. Meanwhile, just set yourself down and

By Ed Snyder/Outdoors
The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly again explains this past week’s fishing activity. Great speck action was actively hooking anglers up to trout from 20 to 32 inches with most being oversized and releasable. Some really nice slot and bull reds were caught with some nice slot and bull drum as well. But the “Olde Saying” at the pass is one day heroes and