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Fishing September 6, 2007  RSS feed
 

FISHING REPORT
Great fishing continues as summer winds down
      Despite dreary weather predictions and sporadic rainfall, Labor Day weekend was full of big catches, according to the docks.
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Massive marlin
      Pat Bone of Port Aransas landed this 468-pound blue marlin Sunday, Sept. 2, on a trip out of Fisherman's Wharf.
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Overnighter catch
      Anglers racked up a mess of fish on a 24-hour trip Sunday, Aug. 26, out of Dolphin Dock. Ryan Raygun and Ken Sims captained the boat, and the deckhands were Chris McCarty, Gator Fintell and Robert Genevie.
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Snapper and shark
      The White family went fishing recently and returned with limits of red snapper, 27 dog snapper and a blacktip shark. They were on an 8-hour trip aboard the Ambush with Capt. Mike Buffington, left, and hung the catch at Woody's Sports Center.
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Mighty mako
      Chris Cantu and Jerry Semifero of Corpus Christi had their hands full with this 600-pound mako shark caught aboard the Pelican with Capt. John Brennan out of Deep Sea Headquarters Friday, Aug. 31.
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First keeper red
      Beverly Stapleton caught this 23-inch redfish, her first keeper, on Thursday, Aug. 23. She was fishing in a kayak in the Lighthouse Trails across from Crabman Marina. She was supposed to have gone fishing offshore on the Adventurer, but the trip was canceled due to 10-foot seas. The catch made up for the cancelled trip.
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Pending reel record
      This 265-pound, 123-inch swordfish is a pending state record on an electric reel for Ward Scholl, right, of Houston. It was caught Friday night, Aug. 31, aboard his boat Madera.
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Big AJ
      This 43-pound amberjack was caught Sunday, Sept. 2. The angler proudly carried it up to the fuel dock to get weighed and back to the boat by herself.
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Duo snag Shootin Doubles catch
      Josh Heaps of Liberty Hill and Kevin Drewry of Port Aransas show off their catch of wahoo, tuna, and dorado. They were fishing Sunday, Sept. 2, aboard Shootin Doubles, piloted by owner Tracy Heaps, Josh's father.
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Shark hunting? Look behind shrimp boats
      As the summer fishing season comes to a close, so begins the fall bite. Mothers take their growing kids shopping for school clothes before the start of a new grade, hunters begin to worry more about their feeders as buck fever tightens its grip on South Texas residents, and outbound finger mullet swim toward the Gulf,
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Caught and released
      Butch Jouffray, left, recently caught and released this 7-foot sailfish with the help of Brian Downs, right. The men, both of San Antonio, were fishing five to six miles offshore using ribbonfish for bait when the sail was snagged.
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