Port Aransas Weekly Pic's!!!! and fishing Report.11/22

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[font "arial,helvetica"][red][size 3]Variety of fish[/size][/red]
[/url] [font "Verdana"][size 3][#0000ff]Maria Morones of San Antonio went fishing in Port Aransas on and caught this nice stringer. She landed redfish, sheepshead and drum. [/#0000ff][#000000][/#000000][/size][/font][/font][font "arial,helvetica"][#000000][/#000000][/url][/font]

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[font "arial,helvetica"][red][size 3]Busman's holiday[/size][/red]
[/url] [font "Verdana"][#0000ff]James Lemley, who works at Woody's Sports Center, took a day's vacation to go fishing (a regular busman's holiday) on the north jetty. He came back with this nice catch of fish caught on shrimp. [/#0000ff][/font][#000000][/#000000][/font][font "arial,helvetica"][#000000][/#000000][/url][/font]

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[size 4][red][font "Arial"]Fishing is better than usual for this time of year
[/font][/red][/size][font "Arial"][#000000][blue][size 2]Though there aren’t a lot of people in town, the fishing boats have had some "really good catches."
The red snapper continue to bite in state waters and other species have been frequent enough to make for interesting catching offshore.
"Trout fishing has just exploded over on the north jetty," according Woody’s Sports Center.
Fishing over there has been better than it’s been in nearly a year.
They are catching lots of trout, redfish, black drum, sheepshead and a few pompano.
There was a tarpon caught and released out towards the end of the north jetty by a local angler.
There have been some really good catches come back to the dock at Fisherman’s Wharf, Anglers are coming in with full limits of nice sized kingfish, limits of Atlantic sharpnose shark, an occasional amberjack, and vermilion and lane snapper mixed with a few triggerfish.
The bay guides are catching black drum, a few redfish and an occasional flounder.
Offshore Adventures says on the trips to state waters anglers have brought home red snapper (several weighing as much as 10 pounds), limits of black drum, sea trout, redfish and "several big bull reds."
The 12-hour trips are producing tuna and the nine-hour trips are resulting in catches of vermilion and lane snapper, triggerfish and spadefish.
Anglers fishing off of Horace Caldwell Pier have been catching black drum, oversize redfish, Florida pompano, sand trout and whiting as well as blacktip shark, according to Terry Jensen.
Now that the weather has cooled, they are catching flounder, she added.
Deep Sea Headquarters reports trips to state waters are producing shark, redfish, a few red snapper and trout.
There have been good catches of blackfin and yellowfin tuna, two of the latter tipping the scales at 83 and 86 pounds.
On one of the trips, an angler caught a 90-pound shark and others caught kingfish. There, also, have been catches of vermilion, lane and dog snapper as well as a few triggerfish.
Dolphin Dock Inc. fishermen, have made catches of amberjack, kingfish, vermilion snapper and shark. The fishermen from there caught a lot of both blackfin and yellowfin tuna.[/size][/blue]

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[font "arial,helvetica"][size 3][red]Royal limits
[/red][/size][/url] [size 2][#0000ff][/#0000ff][/size][size 3][font "Verdana"][#0000ff]These anglers made a royal catch of kingfish limits plus Spanish mackerel and several other species when they went fishing on the Gulf Eagle with Capt. Fred Hedemann. They hung their catch at Deep Sea Headquarters. [/#0000ff][/font][#000000][/#000000][/size][/font][font "arial,helvetica"][#000000][/#000000][/url][/font]

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[font "arial,helvetica"][#ff0000][size 3]Challenges dad[/size][/#ff0000]
[/url] [font "Verdana"][#0000ff]Nearly five-year-old Ben Racusin of Houston challenged his dad, Charles Racusin, left, and 'outclassed him 10 to 2. They are shown here with super fishing guide Totsy Belcher, right, who helped them make this great catch of redfish. At one time, when the senior Racusin met anyone, he claimed to be Texas' best fisherman, but he says now he can't make that claim as it will someday go to Ben. They hung their catch at Woody's Sports Center. [/#0000ff][/font][/font]
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