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Sunday, June 16, 2013

This weekend fishing report from galveston

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.

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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