Tarpon Alley is hot with action, as several reports of hookups and landings were received Saturday.
U.S. Marine Cpl. Joshua Reid of Seabrook, who was home from duty in Afghanistan, to a great day of fishing. Reid hooked up with a huge tarpon Saturday morning. The fight lasted almost three hours before the fish was landed, measured, photographed and released.
U.S. Marine Cpl. Joshua Reid of Seabrook, who was home from duty in Afghanistan, to a great day of fishing. Reid hooked up with a huge tarpon Saturday morning. The fight lasted almost three hours before the fish was landed, measured, photographed and released.
The estimated 200-pound
silver king was 86 inches long and had a girth of 45 inches. Reid’s fish
was an inch above the minimum length to retain.
Texas Parks and Wildlife
Department regulations allow the retention of one tarpon 85 inches or
longer as a possible new state record. The state record is 91 inches and
210 pounds.
Several other reports of
tarpon action were received by John Boone and Chris Johnson fished
Tarpon Alley off the beach front Saturday where Johnson landed an
estimated 110-pound tarpon.
Friday night, Carlyn Garner tagged and retained a 37-inch bull red from the Galveston Fishing Pier.
Mark McDavid conducted a class in catching sand trout Saturday at Offatts Bayou where he caught 20 sandies and eight croaker.
Lots of trout are being caught off Eagle Point and April Fools Point near San Leon.
Saturday, Jerry Miller
added his name to the list of anglers catching limits and near limits of
trout around the Houston Ship Channel spoil banks just off San Leon.
Using live free-lined croaker for bait, the Dickinson angler landed 14
specks to 23 inches, retaining seven.
The party boat
made an offshore trip Friday where fish were found in 130 feet of
water. The 74 fishermen onboard returned with a full boat limit of
snapper, two sharks, three ling to 40 pounds, 10 kings to 48 pounds and a
65-pound Warsaw, which is the one-fish limit per boat.
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