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[TTRR]

took off out of packery right after sun up with the almost full moon still up, hardly any breeze and NO current. made it out to a rig 9 miles out and levi and phil immediately start hooking up on barely keeper and undersized snapper:



i get the chum going and the boat quickly gets surrounded by bonnetheads in the 5' range but the wouldn't hit anything we had to offer. levi and phil coninue to pull up snapper while i run some ribbonfish out under balloons which produced these guys:





we continue to pull up various rigfish for the next hour and then decide to troll. this is when things got interesting. a few minutes into our troll a yozuri deep diver gets slammed. i grab the rod and have trouble removing it from the rodholder because of the pressure the fish is putting on the rod. i get it out and pass it off to phil. the fish easily has ripped off 200yds of line already. we make a few jokes about him not being registered for the star tournament. 20 minutes later the fish is still 100yds away from the boat and we are making very little progress when i swear i see an incadescent blue color near the surface. i tell them i think its a billfish. a little while later we have it about 60yds from the boat and when it comes up we can see it glowing bright blue. it then rises one last time, sticks its bill and tail out of the water, does a little jig, and throws the lure.

we know it was a billfish and are guessing sailfish since we were only 9 miles out and it never jumped, but this is the first billfish we've ever hooked and didn't get it within 50yds of the boat. any ideas?

anyway, it was an interesting day on the water, we did decent considering the full moon and no current.

[Oil Field Trash II]

that's awesome.

I'd put my money on a sailfish, I've seen a few caught inside of 10 miles.

I haven't heard of a marlin being caught that close in on the texas gulf coast... but you never know. oz caught a mako off the beach a few years ago, and then another washed up in corpus christi bay where they're "not supposed to be". I guess the fish don't get those memos

it's not like it happens very often though. cool catch.

[Tyler]

FYI on PINS yesterday Sandifer saw a small dorado. It was in the 30's. Water offshore was gorgeous so it should not be too surprising. Driving on the other hand through the Big Shell was a nightmare on the higher tides.