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This weekend winds up the CCA-Texas Star Fishing Tournament with the final bell sounding Monday. Likely the most popular category in the annual event is the tagged red fish competition.
Actually, it is not a competitive race. If you catch a tagged red and are registered in the tournament at the time and pass examination, you win.
So
far, only 12 tagged reds have been caught with three winners, one
pending and eight that were not qualified. The reasons for the eight not
being qualified ranged from the angler not being registered at the time
for the tournament to failing a polygraph examination.
While
the forecast for the remaining days of the tournament does not look
good overall, conditions do not look bad for catching reds. Fortunately,
red drum are not turned off by stormy weather, and some of the better
redfish catches have taken place during storm tides, both in the surf
and back bays.
The
outlook for the big Labor Day weekend will be determined by the effects
of the tropical event in the Gulf of Mexico. One bright note to the
fishing and crabbing is that there have been some excellent catches of
nice large blue crabs during the past few days.
Crabbers
with lines in the water near the 61st Street boat ramp were catching
some of the largest crabs I have seen recently. Additionally, rock crabs
were around the rocks, and several crabbers had a few good-sized claws
in with their live blue crabs.
Stone
crabs tend to become more plentiful beginning in late summer and only
the right claw measuring at least two and one-half inches may be taken.
Once the right claw is removed, the crab must be immediately returned to
the water. There are no possession limits for either stone crab claws
or whole blue crabs.
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