Because bite-shortened hooks have minimal discard effects, these areas closed off from fishing pressure could potentially open up to recreational anglers if fishing methods used were only those that produced little-to-no post-release mortality
It seems that the Canal can fish almost at any time of year, but the purposes of visiting anglers, think about late May, June and July especially for the bigger stripers, with big numbers of fish of all sizes in summer especially
00:20:22 He describes how he ties the poppers that he use on tarpon and his own go-to pattern for everything which is the spitter gurgler
When offshore fishing from the Galveston area, the choices you make regarding how you fish will play a big factor in which type of fish you catch
Schools suspend over main lake structure points, humps, channel edges typically in 15 to 30 feet of water
While casting, the rod acts as a catapult: by moving the rod shaft forward, the inertia of the mass of the terminal tackles and the distal portion of rod itself will load (bend) the rod tip backwards, and the subsequent forward elastic rebound will sling out the lure/bait