Today's offshore fishing trip by the partyboat Capt. John out of Galveston's Pier 19 was run with Capt. Tony Langston in the drivers seat. With the twin hulls slicing through the open Gulf in a southerly direction the 81 fishermen looked forward to the first stop of the day. These stops, about 55 miles out in 115-120' of water were over several rocks, wrecks and old coral outcroppings.

The baits used were cut squid chunks and whole Spanish sardines for the most part. These bait offerigs were fished from the bottom tot he near surface area and enticed this group into biting:

?Ģ 2 Dolphin (mahi-mahi)
?Ģ 9 kingfish to 25#
?Ģ 70 Atlantic spadefish
?Ģ 2 mangrove snapper
?Ģ 162 red snapper to 19# - the four heaviest were sows in the 16 to 19# range.B
The red snapper catch was a daily limit for all of the 81 fishermen, which is always nice to see. As has been mentioned recently, it's getting to be time for more of the "surface types" such as kingfish, dolphin, ling and wahoo to show up. On today's trip three of those four did make an appearance. The kingfish and dolphin not only made an appearance, some of them ended up in the fish boxes. A large wahoo made a brief showing but didn't take any of the baits presented to it. Another flash of excitement was an estimated 8' hammerhead shark that was hooked by Sam Rosas and later released alive. It's yellowish color was described as being almost McDonalds arches yellow.

Sam Rosas & Jennifer Jackson from Sugarland each had red snapper limits and kingfish limits that included Sam's 25 pounder.

Leston Reeves, Denver, CO, had a kingfish to go along with his red snapper limit.

Johnny Crabtree, Idabel, OK, with a red snapper limit to 16#.

Offshore partyboat fishing, once again you never know what you may see or who will catch what at any stop - excitement at a bargain price. Give the office a call today to make your reservations on the Capt. John at 409-762-8808 or 713-223-4853; get out there and see how high your excitement level can go.