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Squidder542
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 Posted: Tue Nov 27, 2012 10:37 pm Post subject: Tripletail |
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I've searched on TPWD and I couldn't find anything about tripletail except the size and limit. Can you spearfish tripletail? Can it be in state waters? Or only in federal? Thanks on advance guys.
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Squidder542
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But that's where in stumped. You can shoot Cobia and wahoo in federal waters. I wonder if tripletail would fall under that same category.
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Seabass
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Been wanting for years to catch a tripletail.... looked for em' in open bay waters while cruising thru but never saw one. I've heard they may look like a piece of floating trash/plastic bag on the surface. Buddy of mine (Heavy Duty) got a juvenile tripletail (5 inch) in his cast net one time not too far from the boat ramp, that's the only one i've ever seen outside of pictures..
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Granite Guy
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| Posted: Wed Nov 28, 2012 6:10 am Post subject: tripletail |
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Caught a few nice ones in August in the Lydia Ann channel, The larger ones were at the ICW markers and mixed size between there and Trayler Island on a string of crab pots . We free lined live shrimp.
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Drunkswimmer
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I have been seeing alot of big ones at the rigs lately. We caught one that was 36" about 3 weeks ago. They stick close to the rig legs high up in the water column.
I'm not sure, but I think they tend to show up offshore when the water clears up since I have only seen them in the last month to month in a half and I have been out there ALOT this summer. |
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Matt
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I caught several nice ones earlier in the summer, up to about 7lbs.
Best I've ever seen was in January, 3 years ago. Fishing south out of Packery, there were big patches of debris in about a 3 mile area and almost all of them had multiple tripletail under them. I think we caught about 7 of them that day.
Talk about good eating!
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ltorna1
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You can shoot cobia and wahoo in federal waters but you cannot land them in TX - so basically you can't shoot them if you are fishing from this state. Same goes for Tripletail.
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Central Scrutinizer
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| sqidder542 wrote: | | But that's where in stumped. You can shoot Cobia and wahoo in federal waters. I wonder if tripletail would fall under that same category. |
Yes. You can shoot most anything in Federal waters, but... and here is the catch (which I am going to try and relay once again)... if you land said fish in Texas, then you must follow the Rules for Texas, and if it is a gamefish (i.e., tripletail, wahoo, cobia, as well as a number of others listed as gamefish), they can only be taken by rod and reel - regardless of where you initially encountered them. The rub is where the fish is landed. This issue has come up a number of times, and I am 1000% sure in this distinction as to what can and cannot be taken with a speargun and landed in Texas.
Now, if you want some tripletail and you don't want to venture offshore, Matagorda Bay is the place to go. They are most common in the spring, especially during heavy sargassum times. I've seen them at the entrance to Nueces Bay before, as well as nearshore around the jetties.
Definitely a top 5 tablefare species. |
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fishaddict
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Yes, Matagorda has a lot of them. You pull up to a stick or post sticking out of the water drop a freelined shrimp then start backing the boat so you can pull them away or they will wrap your line and break it. Edie Pruit, who owns Spoonbill's resturant in Matagorda has the state record since 1987. A tripletail that weighed 37.5 LBS.
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In order of highest landed count by TPWD
1. Sabine
2. Galveston
3.Matagorda
4. Corpus
5. Lower Laguna
I have never caught one. |
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Squidder542
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| Posted: Wed Nov 28, 2012 1:50 pm Post subject: |
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So basically, no shooting of tripletail should be done UNLESS I plan on not coming back to Texas.
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Powers
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| Central Scrutinizer wrote: | | they can only be taken by rod and reel - regardless of where you initially encountered them. |
Hi all,
This is my first post on Corpusfishing. My name is Will. I was born and raised in Corpus. Now I live in Austin, but come back and forth for family and the fishing. I permit oilfield waste disposals to pay the light bill. In my spare time, I edit for Spearing Magazine.
I have to contest the above statement. Though it is true that Texas bag and length limits apply to fish landed in Texas, I have never heard that the method of take rules apply as well. In fact, I used to have an email from TPWD stating just that, though I can't find it now.
I think evidence enough that landing speared fish in Texas is NOT illegal is the awarding of Texas state records for speared gamefish. On the following link, you can see where Texas honored one of our magazine contributors, Keith Love, with the state record for speared wahoo in February of last year.
http://www.tpwd.state.tx.us/fishboat/fish/action/staterecords.php?env=SW&age_group=all&list=4&browse=Submit
You'll also see that several other gamefish species have been awarded spearfishing records.
I'd like to see spearfishing added as proper method of gamefish take. I think if a person is willing to enter the food chain to have a chance at taking a cobia or a tripletail, then he or she ought to have the right.
Glad to be on the board.
Dive safe,
Will
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