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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.

2025 In Review – Different But Overall Positive Premium

By Steve Hillman
My clients and I headed east as the early morning sun broke the horizon to bless us with yet another...
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Factors Influencing Winter Trout Patterns Premium

By Steve Hillman
Our summer pattern is over, and I must say we had a pretty solid run in certain areas of the...
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Control Your Fish!

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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