The beach water temperature now is at the

point that pelagic fish from the Gulf are being attracted to the near shore waters, especially the surf and jetties.

Anglers able to make it to the jetties during the weekend caught sev-eral ling, a few Spanish mackerel and a king.

Capt. Jonathan with Galveston Fishing Char-ter Co. was fishing the jetties with a small trout rod when a large ling hit his bait. The 4-foot fish was finally landed after an hour-and-45-minute battle.

An unconfirmed report of a 33-pound king mackerel being caught on the Gulf side of the North Jetty was received.

Paul Kuykendall of Friendswood sent a note in which he asked about fishing the seawall rock groins.

Kuykendall said he reads reports of good fishing from those spots; however, the sev-eral times he has fished them he has not caught a fish.

I asked the angler what time of day he fished, what he used for bait and what equip-

ment he used.His answers were

mostly from late morn-ing until early afternoon and the bait was artifi-cial lures fished using a rod and reel.

While artificial baits do work along the rocks, the best bait to use is either live or dead shrimp.

Timing is important for rock groin fishing.

Midday normally is not good, with daybreak until midmorning be-ing the most consistent for trout action. Night fishing along the rocks often is excellent.

One of the keys to successful trips to the rock groins is the condi-tion of the surf.

If it is choppy and sandy, the odds are against catching fish. The ideal and most productive time is when the surf is green under light winds and from daybreak until around 9 a.m.

Either using a pop-ping cork with live shrimp or fishing dead shrimp on the bottom is a good way to catch a variety of fish when the surf is in fishable condi-tion.

Pelagic fish make it to shore

Reel ReportCapt. Joe Kent is a columnist for The Daily News. To get your catch in the

Reel Report, call 409-683-5273 or email reel.report@galvnews.com.

At a glanceThe results of last Saturday’s Piggy Perch Tourna-

ment for Kids are:

4- to 8-year-old categoryMost fish Logan ShafferSmallest fish D’laney SandiferLargest Fish Brock Bailey and Charlie Messina

9- to 12-year-old categoryMost fish Austin CalhounSmallest fish Payton BaileyLargest fish Brandon Hensley and Madison Stewart

ANGLERS SHOW OFF CATCHES

COURTESY PHOTOSTOP LEFT: Marcus Bates with his big red caught as Sea Wolf Park. TOP RIGHT: Mario Garza with a big red caught from in the Bolivar surf. ABOVE LEFT: Roger Lai of Dal-las with a 49-inch ling caught off the North Jetty while fishing aboard Aqua Safari Charter’s Island Girl. ABOVE RIGHT: Lance Ernst with a redfish caught in West Bay.

WILDCATS’ WATER POLO TEAM IS NO. 1

COURTESY PHOTOThe Clear Creek boys water polo team celebrates after winning the state champion-ship at the Texas Interscholastic Swimming Coaches Association’s state meet May 4.

on their stomachs with heads opposite.

At a signal, they each tried to gain leverage and pull the other to his side. The winner was the one who could tap a tire first.

“The trick is to stay low,” offensive lineman Dylan Taylor said.

That wasn’t easy for the Friendswood freshman, as he stands 6-foot-6, but he made do, winning his tussle.

When La Marque and Texas City went head-to-head in the re-verse tug, there was a lot of friendly trash-talking between the archrivals.

“We all grew up to-

gether,” Texas City nose guard Francois Bonilla said. “There might be some issues, but we’re working them out.”

Bonilla drew La Marque defensive end Kenneth Edwards in the reverse tug in what was an all-dreadlock match.

The two started evenly, but after a few seconds, something clicked and Bonilla let out a roar, leapt forward and yanked Edwards backward.

“I didn’t hear them say ‘go’ because every-body was so loud, but once I felt him pulling me and I thought about my family and all the work we did as a team, I just had to go,” he said.

Edwards was none

the worse for wear and tear after the battle.

“We’re just out here having fun,” he said. “This is great, it gets us out here competing against each other and we get ready for next season.”

Then Edwards no-ticed that his team-mates had moved on to the next event, so he raced off to catch them.

About halfway to his destination, he altered his route so he could leap over a trash can without breaking stride.

Which is exactly what you would expect a kid to do at Field Day.

Contact Sports Editor John DeLapp at 409-683-5242 or john.delapp@galvnews.com.

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Alvarez’s homer and a Travis Snider double were the only balls to leave the infield off Harrell (3-5), who had a single in a rare plate ap-pearance for an Ameri-can League pitcher.

“Today felt like the first game this season that I dominated both sides of the plate with

my sinker,” Harrell said. “(Catcher Carlos Cor-poran) did a great job with his homework. He had a really good game plan, and I just followed along.”

Pittsburgh’s other chance at scoring came in the sixth, when Snid-er was thrown out at the plate by center fielder Brandon Barnes on a two-out single by Gaby Sanchez. The throw easily beat Snider, who

put his shoulder into the chest of Corporan but could not jar the ball loose.

Harrell entered the game with the Ameri-can League’s fourth-best groundball-to-fly-ball ratio at 2.09, and pitched to form, induc-ing 13 groundouts.

“You could tell in the bullpen that he had a re-ally good sinker today, so it was an easy game to call,” Corporan said.

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