A northeast wind, albeit light to moderate, blew in on Friday, and it appears that anglers will have to deal with this breeze most of the weekend.

Beautiful weather and ideal fishing conditions continue to prevail over the Galveston area and, while there were few anglers taking advantage of them, one angler who did had a catch of a lifetime.

On Wednesday morning, a strong south to southwest wind was enough to keep anglers from launching their boats. However, by midmorning the velocities had dropped considerably.

September is continuing its pattern of recent years as being as hot as the other summer months.

While the summer heat continues, conditions offshore are about as good as they get for fishing the Gulf waters. Night action continues to be excellent, and early morning catches in East Bay have been good.

The calm to light winds lately have made the heat worse for many; however, to offshore anglers it is music to their ears.

Summer weather continues, and the fishing is about as hot as the weather. Conditions have been ideal for offshore fishing lately, with calm to light winds and dry weather.

Nice weather is setting in after a spell of adverse winds and poor fishing.

The weekend outlook is good for fishing. The winds are supposed to be on the light side and from the south to southeast and that is usually excellent for fishing this time of year.

Live shrimp again are in short supply, with most bait camps lowering their white flag early this week. Shrimpers are having a tough time finding the sought after bait close to Galveston.

Large black drum continue to be caught in good numbers and, as we have mentioned several times lately, this is quite unusual for this time of year.

The last big holiday weekend of the summer was overall a good weekend for fishing. Offshore catches were good, with action on kings disappointing to most anglers.

While our summer vacation season is ending, the summer weather continues, as opposed to areas in the mid-west and northern U.S.

August is now behind us, and overall, most anglers feel fishing was not up to par for the eighth month of the year. Toward the end of the month, better conditions settled in and fishing picked up.

This holiday weekend should be a good one for fishing, as low chances of thunderstorms along with light to moderate wind velocities should set anglers up to fish in a wide variety of places.

The Labor Day Weekend is upon us, and as usual, many inquiries are being received about the prospects for fishing over the holiday weekend.

Summer continues to be with us, as hot, humid weather persists over the coastal regions.

For the next several days, anglers are going to have to think deep to catch fish.

A southwest wind was gusting to 20 knots Monday morning, and while that is almost always a time when I would not consider going fishing, I ignored it and headed out.