Red Snappers Not Endangered in GOM

We spent a week fishing out of Freeport TX last week on my
boat. We can pretty much catch our limits of red snappers
at all locations visited. Red snapper stock is really healthy
this year, one of my best year so far. I think IKE helped
pushed the big ones in.

 

we also saw a Hammerhead shark and dolphin swimming next
to each other

 

friend / foe ?

 

nice fish those are some mangroves in there. Better eating. You must have been using lite line to catch those magroves.

we got them on 30lb mono to 80lb Spiderwire braid, all
with 80lb leader and OWNER 7/0

 

great catch & report San , NOW lets get some Tunas. BTW awesome job taking the kid out fishing.
would love to take my kid soon next year

if it works out I may be able to take you and your kid fishing
next year. We're planning a week long fishing with several
boats out of Freeport, TX first week of August 2010. (7 days)

I am ready for Tuna, hope we have enough heads to sail
on Aug 29

 

Bret

my shifters are working a lot better, did not have any
'stuck in gear' mishaps, thanks for all the info and advices!

Let me know if you want some snappers for dinner

I even stumbled on some big groupers by accident:
caught snappers, groupers ate snappers, rod bend over, can not
turn groupers, groupers ran back into wreck, I cut lines
(pretty frustrating)

How's your boat coming along? Would like to fish with you
some day

 

I like how you process your fish it looks like you remove the gills and heart why don't you remove the rest of the organs and stomach at the same time?

wow, you're very observant!

I do prefer to remove guts and all but I was in a hurry
that day and just wanted to at least get the blood out.
I was captain/deckhand and the bite was too furious and
I didn't want to miss out. There were 3 other boats
drifting over the same wreck.

Back at dock I remove the rest then vacuum seal the
whole fish (preserves the flavor longer )