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