Bolivar Fishing Report

GOOD. 60 degrees. It has been a beautiful week for fishing! More and more people are catching fish with the weather changes. The water has been beautiful as well. There were sightings of bioluminescence at night off the surf. Black drum and sheepshead are prevalent this week ahead of whiting, sand trout, redfish, speckled trout,…

GOOD. 60 degrees. Spring is peeking out with more and more people out fishing at the north jetty this past week. We received reports of black drum being caught across the bay along with keeper speckled trout and plenty of redfish using live shrimp and finger mullet. Along the beachfront, people reported catching sand trout,…

GOOD. 60 degrees. The fish have been active this week and people caught some great ones when the weather cooperated. They caught plenty of black drum and redfish across the bay and in the surf. Off the jetty, we had reports of flounder, whiting, reds of various sizes, black drum, sheepshead, and small stingrays. The…

GOOD. 56 degrees. Few more anglers fishing at the north jetty this past week

GOOD. 50 degrees. We have gotten Reports of black drum, redfish, few speckled trout, and whiting with some occasional sheepshead at the north jetty on shrimp. Some anglers using fiddler crabs for the sheepshead. Bay temperatures are hovering around 50 degrees still and salinity levels around the bay increasing. It was so fresh in parts…

GOOD. 50 degrees. Water clarity is brackish and muddy on the north end, and clearing on the south end. Catches of sheepshead, a few small speckled trout, redfish of all sizes and black drum at the jetties using live shrimp, or cut bait. Some catches of stingrays and sharks reported in the surf, along with…

FAIR. 44 degrees. Believe it or not, there have been catches of catfish, bass and redfish in East Bay due to the freshwater runoff. Surf producing catches of black drum, red drum, a few speckled trout and sporadic sheepshead. Surf at bolivar flats producing catches of sand sharks and spinners

FAIR. 40 degrees. North Jetty Boat cut and East Bay producing nice catches of trout. A few catches of black drum biting dead shrimp or crab off the bottom all over the bay. Redfish are on fire with slot fish being caught daily at the jetty and Texas City Dike using mullet, and live or…

FAIR. 58 degrees. This is typically the slowest time of the year. Bay side of Bolivar is holding nice trophy size trout catches, redfish, sheepshead and black drum using topwaters or live shrimp under a popping cork