Billy Ragusin holds up a photo of his jewfish.

Billy Ragusin just celebrated his 80th birthday on February 24th and his 60th wedding anniversary with the biggest catch of his life, wife Margaret, on January 1st. The second biggest catch of his life is this jewfish.

Billy caught this monster off the dock at Clarks. It was filleted right there on the dock. Henry Anderson recalls several women from town coming with pots to take pieces of the fillet home. The exact date of the catch is not known, but has been narrowed down to 1959-1961. Kenneth Clark recalls that this picture was taken at the “old fish house”, which was destroyed by Hurricane Carla on September 11, 1961. Billy has been an avid fisherman his entire life and still enjoys it today.
-Dawn Ragusin