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Topp Dogg Guide Service provides specialized fishing in Galveston Bay, Trinity Bay and the surrounding waters. Known to inhabit these Galveston Fishing Locations are speckled trout, redfish, flounder, sand trout, gulf trout, golden croakers, gulf whiting, drum, sharks and big bull reds. No matter what time of the year it is, most of these fish are abundant in most parts of the Galveston Bay complex.

 

GALVESTON MARINAS

Below are the Galveston Marinas, Ramps or Docks that we will meet at to begin your Galveston Fishing Trip. Click on the marker of choice - then click on To here - put in your address and print the directions.

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	EAGLE POINT BAIT CAMP
	TOPWATER GRILL
	GALVESTON BAIT & TACKLE
	LINDA'S SYLVAN BEACH
	GALVESTON YACHT BASIN
	TEXAS CITY DIKE/BOAT RAMP
	BOLIVAR BAIT CAMP
	PHAT BOYS BAIT SHOP
	MOSES LAKE/ONE STOP
	HWY 146 KEMAH BRIDGE

 

   Galveston Bay Texas is known as one of the best fisheries on the Texas gulf coast. The

   center point which is 29°34' north latitude and 94°56' west longitude, is part of Galveston,

   Harris and Chambers counties. Galveston Bay is the  largest estuary on the Texas coast and the seventh largest in the United States. It extends thirty miles south to north and seventeen miles east to west. The bay is seven to nine feet deep. It has a mud bottom and about 600 square miles of surface. Fresh water from the Trinity and the San Jacinto rivers mixes with the tidal salt water from the Gulf of Mexico through the channel between Galveston Island and the Bolivar Peninsula. During the 1980s the bay provided nursery and spawning grounds for 30 percent of the state's total fishing products.

Galveston Bay has been declared an estuary of national significance by the Environmental Protection Agency National Estuary Program and the area surrounding the bay system is bordered by coastal plains and marshes. The Christmas Bay Coastal Preserve, a shallow embayment located in its southwestern portion, is a unique high quality subsystem of estuary that has not yet been greatly altered by human activity. The preserve is one of the most ecologically productive bays of the Galveston complex. Important natural resources in Galveston Bay include finfish, shrimp and blue crab and it is also estimated that seventy-five percent of the bird species in North America spend some time in the bay.

Red drum and spotted sea trout are the premier recreational game species of the bay. Regulations passed to protect redfish and speckled trout included: no commercial sale since 1981; banning of all nets in 1988; implementation of minimum and maximum sizes to protect spawners and daily bag limits for recreational fishermen in 1982. These species showed increases in first-time spawners and adults after these regulations were implemented, despite several adverse natural events, including a freeze in 1983, a red tide in 1986, and two freezes in 1989. On September 13th 2008 Hurricane Ike made landfall directly over Galveston Island and caused massive damage to Galveston and the Bolivar Peninsula. Galveston Bay once filled with debris from Ike has since been cleaned and fishing in all of the Galveston Bay Complex is still outstanding. Galveston Bay is still considered as one of the best places to fish on the Texas Coast.  
 

Trinity Bay is 25 miles from the open Gulf of Mexico. This distance from the Gulf coupled with the bay's expansive watershed cause a considerable fluctuation in the salinity of the water. This is negligible as far as some fish are concerned but quite critical for others.

Speckled trout fishing and the movement of specks is influenced by the saline content of the water. The specks move from Trinity Bay to lower Galveston Bay and Galveston East Bay when the salinity of Trinity soars during drought periods or plummets when heavy rains on the bay's watershed cause a massive fresh water runoff. When the saline level goes to extremes on either end of the scale, speckled trout and their less regal cousins, sand trout, move into adjacent bays that are closer to the Gulf of Mexico.

In the case of redfish, there is another reason for them to linger the year around along the north and northwest shoreline. It's the Houston Lighting and Power Company' s Cedar Bayou generating station. The plant's cooling canal flows into the north side of Trinity Bay. The warm water flows over a spillway and into a small lake, which in turn spills into the bay. Some of the best redfish action of the year occurs in the warm water outflow during the winter months.

Trinity Bay could also provide Texas saltwater fishermen with an exciting new fishery : striped bass. Trinity Bay has the potential environment of supporting stripped bass. Enough potential for the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department to make three striper fry stockings near the marsh line on the north side of Trinity Bay. The first stocking was made in the spring of l982. Don't rush out to bone up on striper fishing techniques for salt water because fruition of these stockings is still years down the road. Trinity Bay's strong suit is fishing for speckled trout and redfish. Under normal weather conditions the bay is a very good producer of specled trout from late March through October, however many novice and experienced anglers over the past several years have had success fishing Trinity Bay year round.