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Fishing October 9, 2008  RSS feed
 

The best of everything
      Chris Burns, left, of Port Aransas pauses with a copy of the South Jetty while catching and releasing a striped marlin in Cabo San Lucas, Mexico. Byron Pratt, far right, also of Port Aransas, does the same, assisted by the deckhand. These two and Randy Burns of Port Aransas fished aboard the Bob Marlin while on a "post, post-Ike fishing trip," according to Burns.
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Landlubbers for a day
      This group from Port Aransas hunted dove instead of fish on Monday, Oct. 6, near Alice. From left are Capts. Jeff Heimann, Keith Schoolcraft, Mitchell Collins, Aaron Chambers, mate Miles Stamper, Capt. Nathan Forbes and mate Matt Reed.
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FISHING REPORT
Those who ventured out had good results
      It's been quiet on all fronts in Port Aransas, and that goes for the docks as well. October is one of those few times when there are not as many boats going out. I guess you could say it's a respite for the fish, too. The boats who ventured offshore caught fish, but by almost all accounts the bays were quiet. Most reported few guides out.
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Re-shark
      Brenda Brown of Niederwald fished aboard the Dolphin out of Dolphin Dock on Sunday, Sept. 28, with Capts. Travis Kerr and Chris Wallace. She caught a 180-pound sandbar shark, but the rod broke off and went overboard. Four hours later, another angler aboard the Dolphin re-caught the same shark, rod and all.
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A fine day's catch
      Capt. Butch Findley, from left, took James Frailicks, Katie Bertelsen and Shaun Vernon, all of Wimberley, fishing on Tuesday, Sept. 30, along with first mate Tom Ramsden. They fished on the El Gato in state waters and brought in kingfish, Spanish mackerel, ling and snapper.
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Kings and vermilions
      Third Coast Wireless of San Antonio employees limited out on kingfish and had great luck with the vermilion snapper when they fished with Capt. Tony Buzbee aboard the New Kingfisher out of Deep Sea Headquarters on Saturday, Sept. 27.
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Sunday dinner
      These anglers fished aboard the Scat Cat out of Fisherman's Wharf on Sunday, Oct. 5, with Capt. Russel Sanquinet. From left, Carlos Tuches, Eluterio Ybarra, Rudy Ybarra and Eluterio Ybarra Jr. and Rudy Ybarra Jr., all of Corpus Christi, John Goodman and Joseph Goodman, both of Cut and Shoot, and Adam Friar of Austin brought in this catch.
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