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Monday, July 13, 2009

The area chosen by Capt. Johnny Williams for today's 12 hour deepsea fishing trip by the partyboat Capt John was about 60 miles SSW of The Island. Seas today made for a nice ride offshore for the 66 of us fishermen.

Various rock formations in 120 to 180 ft. of water were fished. Baits, consisting of cut or whole squid or Spanish sardines, helped greatly in bringing this catch onto the boat:

74 red snapper to 19 lb-12 oz.
27 vermilion snapper
4 lane snapper
1 porgy
3 kingfish
18 Atlantic sharpnose sharks
1 Warsaw grouper, 18#

Steve Saur & son Henry (Beaumont), had red snapper limits.
Rob Richardson (Athens), red snapper limit to 8#, 1 Atlantic sharpnose shark and a 50" shark that was released.
Mike Richardson (Corinth), with a red snapper limit to 12#
Ricky Richardson (Lone Oak), red snapper limit to 6#, 1 kingfish, 1 Atlantic sharpnose shark.
Wes Richardson (Greenville), red snapper limit to 8#.
Jim Marigliano (Dallas), red snapper limit to 7#.
Colby Smith (Greenville), red snapper limit to 8#.
Travis Krueger (Laverway), his red snapper limit included the day's heaviest fish, the really nice 19 lb-12 oz sow red snapper.

Sunday, July 12, 2009

Capt. Shawn Clark was at the helm for today's offshore trip by the partyboat Capt. John. He headed the boat's twin hulls out in a SE direction. After about a 43 mile run, he had the 79 fishermen at today's fishing area, where their baits enticed this catch to come aboard:

158 red snapper to 17#, a boat limit
34 vermilion snapper
9 lane snapper
13 kingfish
21 sharpnose sharks
1 Warsaw grouper, 30#
1 Dorado, 22#
1 rockhind grouper
1 gag grouper
10 bluerunner

Saturday, July 11, 2009

With Capt. Shawn Clark in the driver's seat again, the run offshore by the partyboat Capt. John for the day's fishing was made in a southeasterly direction. At a range of about 66 miles, he had the 82 fishermen in position to put their squid or sardine baits in use. When the fishing was done for today, these were the catch totals in the fish boxes:

72 red snapper
19 vermilion snapper
3 lane snapper
7 kingfish
3 rockhind grouper
1 triggerfish
1 porgy
1 squirrelfish
1 African pompano
10 sharpnose sharks
2 almoaco jack
11 bluerunner

Thursday, July 09, 2009

Wednesday, July 08, 2009

Today's 12 hour offshore fishing trip by the partyboat Capt John had 44 fishermen aboard. Capt. Johnny Williams had them fishing at production platforms and rocks 30-35 miles east of Galveston.

Their sardine or cut squid baits had takers throughout the water column. Their multi-species catch was made up of:

84 red snapper, just short of a limit
44 mangrove snapper
19 lane snapper
1 Florida pompano
10 kingfish
3 Atlantic sharpnose sharks
1 gafftop catfish
1 bluefish
23 Atlantic spadefish

Don't forget that the red snapper fishery in Federal waters' last day to be open this year is August 14. Make your reservations by calling the Pier 19 office, 409-762-8808 or 713-223-4853 and get connected with the office staff.