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My favorite.

Must've been the company you were in?

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Amistad at sun down

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Released- Uncle Saggy and I - Arkansas

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Dirty 30 dragging for Wahoo - at speed - Pacific Ocean - Mexican Baja - 3 day sail from San Diego south - dragging lures - hundreds of Nautical Miles - with return a week plus later.



Gulf of Mexico - Dirty 30 at 19 knots - high speed Wahoo drag to Flower Garden Banks - National Marine Sanctuary - the only patch of GOM Live Coral Reef - in the entire USA Gulf States - offshore beyond the Economic Exclusion Zone and International Waters, where the next closest live coral reef resides - along Mexico and the Yucatan.

King Mackerel - the big Torpedos - watched dozens of them attempt to do take-downs at these speeds, to get airborne and miss the bait - WAHOO - will run that bait down at any speed - they swim 60 MPH in bursts - leaders are BILLFISH CLASS TO HANDLE THE INITIAL STRIKE SHOCK - Boat plus Wahoo at HIGH SPEED - the hits are unreal - dumping several hundred yards of line on the first strike - on 50 lb class lines. The leaders are big - the backing is deep to cover.



GOT POMP?!?!?!














Life offshore Mexico - mid afternoon HOR-DERVES . 3 meals and 2 rounds of Mid AM and Early PM snacks - prepared by 2 chefs and served by the crew.

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Free floating and riding wind - casting arties and covering the spoils.


Below cell coverage - OFF GRID- Abreast of the King Ranch - South Texas USA

No where else in the continental USA - which now includes CAPE HATTERAS - the most raw and unspoiled barrier island in the WORLD = not only the USA.

KEY WORD HERE - BARRIER ISLAND = CAPE HATTERAS IS our NEXT strand.



A friend of several of our TBH coastal brotherhood - Owns Port A Outfitters - Offshore deep sea HQ.

We drag him with us offshore - and we will continue to do so - till he says he has had enough

Ain't gonna happen.

ALOHA AMIGO RICK!!!





60 mph at the lure strike - another 25 dollar bait - destroyed by a WAHOO. Once these fish hit the 30 - 60lb mark - at their speed = destroyed lures - leaders and worn drags - lines and wind-on leaders. MEAT HOOKs x DOS with a steel line - inside the lure bridle fashion - to hold the hooks to the knot - lure body can disintegrate - and the fish stays hooked up.

Fishing lures on Steroids = Meth - Crack et al

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Laguna Madre - King Ranch to the Starboard - Padre Island National Seashore to the Port - 5 miles span between both shorelines - running 38mph in 1.5ft of water - southbound.



The only way to target tuna - TOPWATER.

Owner 4/0 3x strong treble - Frenzy Flyer 3.75 oz silicone topwater - Jack Brown double braid with Seaguar Flour - wind on - 50 lb Momoi Diamond braid backing @ 600 yards with an- Avet MXL Raptor (34lb drag) 2/speed and a Custom Calstar rod - my build. Tuned for 80 - 150lb class YFT - casting 70 yards - the zone away from the boat to tuna - 100 miles offshore in 3,000 - 9,000 ft of water. Water so clear at high noon, it's purple/blue and full of Flying Fish when it's prime - At night this is the DOPE - downwind and along the edges of lights from boat and deep water spars - pumping oil and sending to Freeport for offload refining.

Those oil lines, as they arc up from the depths of the open GOM, cross the bottom, and get lined up with Group, Snapper, Tilefish and Barrelfish. Running with the boys - we work it and the marks offshore - passed down from 50 years of Father/Son experience.

The skipper - holds the World Record Black Grouper and two Texas State offshore (snapper and Grouper) records.

One of the photos in my share, 4 of us on the fantail acting dumbass, he's the guy with the beard, on deck with the three of us behind. Captain Tim = THE TAXMAN

We have put many Makos on deck - the largest now - 650lbs

I've released them - at 8ft - gaff to the dorsal - lift - pull hook and toss for the release.

MAKO @ 8ft - throwbacks

The TBH offshore tribe - guess we should start our own ANNUAL THREAD? MIX IT UP A BIT ?

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Texas BONEFISH - RELEASED after photo

Yes we have bonefish in Texas - here's one - 50 years of offshore knowledge - just saying.


Didn't happen without pics - here it is.

A 200 B&C low fence - your odds are higher than this one scaly fish - many pursue elsewhere because......no one knows.

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World Record - Black Grouper Record Holder - Captain Tim Oestreich - Caught in the Gulf of Mexico - Port Aransas homeport.

Fishing the Mexican Baja - on Vacation

Note the swell height in the background, this is a CAT 2 Hurricane swell in the Open Pacific . We had a hurricane {CANE} due SW of us working up and parallel to the Mexican Baja about 90 miles to our SW to W to NW before she turned in and blew ashore in the deserts between CABO and SAN DIEGO.

The swells were staggered, 200 yards apart, pulses of wave energy running 15ft, with zero chop and winds. Hawaii North Shore type wave energy - in an Ocean, that reacts way differently, than any tropical system in the GOM.

Pond versus MASSIVE with so much bottom structure - mountains below - this spot - we are riding an anchor line, a long set, as the Cali boys, fish live sardines.

We worked lures and you start at the bow and cast up current and slack out, till the lure hit the bottom, a submerged mountain ridge top below, rising up 4,000ft to a small spine of shallow water, an ancient coastal bottom that was once, the shoreline of Mexico's Western shoreline.

The water depth where we are anchored - 36ft - 600 YARDS wide - then the drops - East and West, 100 miles offshore the now shoreline of Mexico. These ridges run 5 - 50 miles long - from Cabo up halfway to San Diego.

We had plans to fish Guadalupe Island but, two weeks before this run, Great Whites tore up every hooked Yellow Fin- and devoured them before the deckhands to gaff these fish.

We kinda wanted to fish and witness this madness but - Hurricane and Great Whites on the Left Coast - with hundreds of miles to the USA and Medical care = Captain's call.

The Cali gear - lining the maindeck bulkhead, rods and reels, each around a grand each. Two speeds and a niche group, of anglers who, know nothing about what we have here.

We hope it stays this way.

We have so much offshore, that many, haven't tapped - at their level west.

They need week long trips - we need 2 to 3 days max - limits then adjust to another species - and adjust as we fish and troll - different species - sail home.

We have more bigger PELAGICS here, in less time invested to score - than these guys.

We showed up casting Avet and Accurate 2 speed reels, all made in CALI.

They jokingly screwed with us "Where's all those Spinning Reels?!?!?!?"

Our answer - WE AIN'T FROM FLORIDA OR NY

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Left coast wahoo lure - we showed up with these lures, and Halcos from Australia.

They revolted at first, but the wahoo technique, put 4 rods astern. And 4 men were setup to troll and fish wahoo for 20 minutes, before the next group of 4, had their turn astern trolling.

Three of us from Texas, so they let us fish 4 rods with a 3 person Team Texas lineup.

Our first spread, I nailed the first wahoo in our group, running the DIRTY 30.

They - after a hookup, bang a gaff on the deck, thumping so the skipper cuts the trottles, as the boat slides to a stop, the rest of the anglers not on rods, grab casting rods and fling out off the bow to mid ships, lures and wire leader sardines, hoping to catch following wahoo.

We yelled at the deckhands - do not thump and stop on our first fish - let us hook up - run line and continue to troll - as the other baits got slammed - 4 rods with 3 guys - a Cali had to dive in then the side caster began. We took a one or two fish scene to a 8 - 9 wahoo hookup - boat sliding with lines out hundreds of yards - with more wahoo spinning and slamming to points, we started losing fish from those with casting gear not lined up to cover the chaos.

After two days of non stop wahoo - dozens upon dozens - the Cali boys said ' HORY SHEET!

Captain Tim went offshore - Port Aransas on an 8 hour charter - got curious and started dragging wahoo baits - over 30 plus wahoo later, a 8 hour turned into a 12 hour on a bottom fishing run - that went nuts - draggin enroute - to the bottom spot. They never got there.

So many of these trips - become what dreams are made of.




The Cali Group aboard, were all retired Law Men from Southern California and their friends and families. We were screened before they let us buy our ride to join. I had to let them know, I'm retired USCG and Captain Tim, he's a world record professional 100 ton skipper with his childhood - Daddy Tim has run commercial fishing out of Port A for 38 years - he's my age, and we started the Texas tuna topwater scene out of Port A, with our core TBH group.

This was years ago - we shared here some of that but - the details of the historical perspective, are now shared here.


As the sit on top kayaks changed shark fishing here along the GOM, the offshore scene, started firing with a different mindset, offshore. The snapper boat fleet, stymied by Federal regulations of today, needed to find another stream of opportunity, which requires the anglers, to haul the gear, as these boats are transformed into 3-5 day offshore fishing platforms where, everything is targeted, with a private group of anglers, willing to live and fish around the clock, helping the crew (two 100 ton licensed skippers, Federal tags to cover our desires offshore legally, and pursue with a young skipper, who has records earned, with a group, who are chasing new records.

Swordfish decked and weighed, 2.5 days after getting boxed, tail and head out of a 10ft long fish box - it lost a lot of weight.

Our own Glen - was 38 lbs shy of the Texas State swordfish record. This sword was way heavier but, not scaling a fresh fish till she sat, in a box full of ice - unable to completely close the box - bag ice - nothing like the left coast - liquid storage below deck, they dump their fish into massive water tanks lined with copper cooling circulation, keeping the fish within, just above freezing.

They look pretty going in, and they toss around in the tank - meat is perfect but, their hides are rubbed and discolored from the soak and slosh.

Glen, on another trip, decked an AJ hooked in 300ft of water, fishing my Avet 50 with a Carolina rig style bait on the hook.

That fish we nicknamed GLENDA. She was 17 lbs shy of the State record, and it had 3 leaders in it's jaw, along with Glens hook.

Glen isn't a small guy - Glenda was YUGE !

Once again, we had 2 days before the scale to make the weigh.




We have some solid stuff here in Texas - beyond the BEACH!