Capt. Mike Gaglianese

I grew up in upstate NY just South of the Adirondack Mountains. As I made my way through high school and college, I decided I wanted to turn my love for fly fishing into a career. After playing baseball at Purdue for 4 years, I moved to Gunnison, CO to guide a Western River from a drift boat.

Shortly after I realized there is no way to feed my fishing obsession up there year-round, so about 5 years ago I started coming down to Rockport on the Middle Texas Coast to get my fix in the off season. The endless wilderness and flats accessible by poling skiff that were full of sight fishing opportunities kept me coming back and staying longer. With the help of my partner Capt. Dane Scott, we spent the years fishing and guiding roughly 60 miles of the Texas Coastal Bay systems. Our season down here lasts from October to June until we escape the heat and head back to our drift boats.

The terrain and habitat vary from marshland covered in Spartina Grass to crystal clear sand flats with a mangrove backdrop. These fish eat big flies and on a good day you can expect to be casting at fish all day. The variety and diversity of scenarios in this fishery makes it special. We see everything from schools to single tailers, spooky fish and fish that would eat a set of car keys as soon as they hit the water. All the fishing we do down here is from the poling skiff, a true spot and stalk fishery.

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