Today's offshore fishing trip by the partyboat Capt. John had Capt. Tony Langston firmly planted in the driver's seat again. Destination was that productive area of the recent past, wrecks and a production platform about thirty miles south of Galveston Island. The 70 ft. deep water had this catch eating the 63 fishermen's baits of cut squid or whole Spanish sardines and joining them on deck:

?Ģ 126 red snapper to 8#, a boat limit
?Ģ 37 lane snapper
?Ģ 16 mangrove snapper to 10 lbs.
?Ģ 197 Atlantic spadefish (tiger snapper)
?Ģ 6 bluefish
?Ģ 18 blue runner
?Ģ 28 triggerfish
?Ģ 1 bonnethead shark

Jim Marigliano, Dallas, with a red snapper limit to 7# and 5 mangrove snapper to 8#.
Pat Larson, Beaumont, had a red snapper limit to 7#.
Patrick Lemire, Texas City - I had a mangrove snapper and a red snapper limit to 7#, all on Carolina rigged Spanish sardines.