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Steve Hillman is a full-time fishing guide on his home waters of Galveston Bay. Steve fishes the entire Galveston Bay Complex, wading and drifting for trout, redfish, and flounder using artificial lures.

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By Steve Hillman
I titled my article last month, Giving Ourselves the Best Chance for Success, I talked about areas to target, useful...
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Giving Ourselves the Best Chance for Success

By Steve Hillman
We are coming into one of my favorite times of the year. The weather will finally begin to cool. With...
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A Reliable Game Plan for the Slow Days

By Steve Hillman
Each day I would frequent many of the same areas and have good success. Everything was stable. The salinity; the...
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Tidbits for Late-Summer Success

By Steve Hillman
We rolled out of the marina around 5:45 on a recent muggy-hot summer morning. That dreaded southwest wind was pumping...
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My Current Assessment of the Galveston Bay Fishery

By Steve Hillman
Around 1920 my Great Grandpa T (Theodore) and Grandma Anita moved from Goose Creek to a house located on the...
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Sights and Smells of Speckled Trout

By Steve Hillman
I think the year was 1978. I got off of the school bus, walked into our little house on Dickinson...
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Spring Training

By Steve Hillman
Every year I look forward to baseball season, not only because I love baseball, but because it tends to coincide...
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A Happy Meal

By Steve Hillman
I have a couple of close friends who used to race cars and I remember them occasionally using the term...
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A Perfectly Good Boat

By Steve Hillman
Here on the Upper Texas Coast we probably do more drift fishing over a twelve month period than most of...
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Standing There When It Happens

By Steve Hillman
My hands used to get weathered and cracked from the cold, dry air. The open and bleeding cuts at the...
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