Al and Krissy's Fishing Reports: 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.