Galveston Offshore 8-11-07

Me and Mike with Mikes Ling

Saturday I got the chance to take my boss Richard, his twin brother Mike (who had the lucky rod) and another buddy from work George, out for some snapper and anything else that we could catch.
We stopped at a couple of buoys on the way out to make bait then ran to a sow hole hoping to get one or two in the boat but the spot was dead. Next stop was another snapper spot about ten miles away where we caught all but two of our snapper and 6 or 7 lane snapps.
I knew that we could likely get a sow or two while looking for AJs so off we went to deeper water. We broke off what was most likely a nice AJ at the first stop. Richard had him hooked up on light tackle while I was getting the heavy stuff ready. There was no way to turn that fish but Richard had a heck of a fight while it lasted. Richards’s brother Mike did manage to land a decent ling at this spot. We weren’t to far from the Claypiles so we decided to see what we could find over there. The place was like a parking lot. FLW boats all over the place bobbing around and soaking blue runners (no offence but that looked boring as heck to me). We couldn’t catch anything there except kings so we were off to another wreck to finish out the snapper and get one more chance at an AJ. At this last stop Mike managed a nice sow.
We also tried a shrimp boat but there was nothing but remoras home.
It was a great day on the gulf with great seas and good friends.

8 Snapper
6-7 Lane Snapper
1 Ling
? Kings (all released)
1 trigger
1 Remora



Mike fighting his Ling



Mike fighing his Sow



Mike and his Sow

Galveston offshore 8-4-07

Krissy wrestling a feisty mahi

Krissy and I took a good buddy of mine from work (Eric) offshore today. There were a lot of ominous looking storms on the gulf but the new XM weather improved our confidence a lot. We took off to the SE looking for big snapper and about 4 miles from our honey hole we ran up on a massive weed line. We drug it for a few minutes and caught a chicken. We decided to leave the weeds and go catch snapper and then come back to the weed line later. At the snapper spot we did manage one nice snapper and another 22”er but for the most part the place was dead. For about half a second I actually started to worry about not getting six keeper snapps in the boat so we decided to run to another spot about five miles away. Less than 10 seconds after we stopped Eric was hooked up with a ling. He got it to the boat but I wasn’t sure if it was long enough to keep so I tried to pull it in by hand to measure and the line broke. The spot was loaded with very hungry 21”-24” snapper. With my anxiety about not getting a limit of snapper put to rest we ran on out a little further to troll a little. We were hoping for anything except king fish but those slimy ol kings were thick. We must have released 8 or 10 before Eric told me that he has caught a lot of king fish in his life but hasn’t caught many Mahi. With that said we ran back to the big weed line from earlier and started dragging for mahi. After about 10 or so better than average chicks we decided to go ahead and run home. Back at the Galveston yacht basin we ran into a few buddies and enjoyed shooting the $#!% a little. All in all it was a great day on the Gulf with the person I love most and a good friend.

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Eric at the helm

Krissy fighting a mahi

Eric fighting a mahi

Krissy watching the lines

The mighty Sailfish

My snapper

The catch

Galveston Offshore 7-24-07

Always-Gone-Fishing (David) and my self took off from Galveston at around 06:30 and headed of to the SE. Well that turned out to be the wrong direction because thunder storms blew up on us all day. We did manage to make it out to a good snapper spot and pulled a quick limit of 21”-22”snapper with one Sow. Thunder storms blocked us from getting on out to the deep blue so we just started platform and buoy jumping to try and find some ling. Dave caught one but he was an inch to short. We did catch a bunch of ol king fish.We covered around 180 miles of water but never go more than 55 miles out because of the thunder storms. We still had a blast and the boat handled great in the chop.

Matagorda 6-23-07

Krissy and I got invited to go offshore with KMaryP and her Man, Keith in their 32’ Regulator. What an awesome boat! The first stop was a platform we were trolling by. About 300’ up-current the FF lit up like a Christmas tree so we put away the trolling lures and broke out our snapper stuff. About 20 minutes later we had a four man limit of solid 21”-24” snapper. With our snapper out of the way, we put the spread back out and trolled for a while with little action. The whole time Krissy and KMaryP were watching the rods, but after a while with no action, they went to the bow to work on something. That’s when a 25+ lbs blackfin nailed a lure (sorry for having to catch your fish KMaryP) We trolled around a few other wrecks without much luck so we decided to focus on kingfish. Krissy and KMaryP caught a few nice kingfish and we called it a day. Thanks Keith and KMaryP for the invite! It was a great time on an awesome boat.

Galveston Offshore 5-12-07

Krissy with her 1st and 2nd ever Wahoo

Krissy, my boss (Richard) and myself headed out from the GYB (Galveston yacht basin) at about 07:00 to beautiful weather and seas. With the new two snapper limit we decided to make a long run to try a big fish spot which didn’t give up a single fish. There was a Rik Jacobson spot close by so we decided to give it a try. It took us about 45 minutes to limit out on 20”-22” snapper. Krissy caught four of those.With a full load of snapper before 10:30 we dropped a couple of lures in and started to troll the same spot. We ended up losing a Big dolphin, a nice AJ and a big ?. Krissy did end up boating a couple of schoolie Wahoo which was awesome because they were the first Wahoo that we had ever caught from our boat.On the way home we stopped at a weed line and picked up 7 or 10 chicken dolphin for fresh mahi tacos.The new boat ran great and we also got the opportunity to meet Marlintini back at the dock. Man what a nice ride he has and a nice guy to boot.

Richard and Krissy with the catch


The catch

We just got home with the new boat (2660cc Sailfish). 4-7-07

Krissy and I just got back from Georgia where we went to pick up the new boat. This thing is like a sports car compared to the old boat that we just sold. We could have had it delivered for 1500 bucks but I wanted to save a little money so we went and picked it up. About half way through Louisiana we were sorry that we didn’t have it delivered. My hat is off to You SKA guys that willingly drag your boats through there. They have better roads in Mexico and Angola.

Our new boat in the driveway

At the dealer in Georga

Leaning post/live well

Galveston offshore 8-3-05

Two of Krissy's three SOW's

Well yesterday Krissy kicked our butt’s. We took a buddy that I work with off shore (same guy from a couple of weeks ago) to look for snapper. On the way out the water was beautiful, blue and calm. We came up on this awesome current line with a huge mat of sea weed that went on for a very long way. Because my boat is kinda slow, I usually don’t spend the time to search around these things but I just couldn’t resist. We dropped a couple of trolling lures behind the boat and it was on. Chicken Dolphin everywhere. It was pretty cool watching them attack the lures with a vengeance. These little guys have an attitude and yes Krissy caught the biggest one (4 ½ lbs). I didn’t want to spend to much time here so after boxing about 10 of the squiggly little suckers we moved on to do some snapper fishing. The first spot was full of 15 inch fish so after three drifts we moved on. The next spot was awesome for a while. Krissy pulled in three sow’s in a row here. John and myself were catching keepers but she was kicking butt. A current line moved thru and things just stopped. We went to a wreck where we finished our snapper limit and gaught a couple of kings. I managed a 10 pound snapper (not even close to any of the three that Krissy caught) at this spot. The original plan was to work on king fish after we caught our snapper limit but on the way in we found more big sargassum patches. We had so much fun catching dolphin earlier in the day that we decided to blow off the kings and work the weeds instead. We were hoping to find a big fish but ended up catching about eight more of the little guys.


Krissy's first SOW of the day

The Crew with the catch