Fred Cheney

It was a rare day in late November when the wind was calm and the waves were flat. Fred Cheney and I couldn’t pass up the opportunity and made a quick run offshore in Texas waters to the near shore rigs. Fish and bait were plentiful and we caught several varieties of fish: trigger fish, gulf trout, gaftopsail catfish, bull redfish and plenty of red snapper. Our targeted species was red snapper.

We boated our limit of 4 each with Fred Cheney hauling in the “catch of the day”, a huge Texas red snapper just under 20 lbs. I caught and released two very large bull redfish. The trip lasted just under 4 hours. Both Fred and I felt like this day was a bonus and a fitting end to the offshore fishing season for the year.

Dave Pope