{"id":8,"date":"2012-12-26T07:29:26","date_gmt":"2012-12-26T07:29:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/billplattfishing.com\/?p=8"},"modified":"2014-07-25T04:47:15","modified_gmt":"2014-07-25T04:47:15","slug":"fishing-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/billplattfishing.com\/?p=8","title":{"rendered":"Fishing News"},"content":{"rendered":"

Coolcatch\u2014Angler lands rare fireback grouper<\/strong><\/h3>\n

Galveston Capt. Bill Platt has caught a lot of fish in his years of fishing. But this summer, he pulled in something even he had never seen before.<\/p>\n

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\u201cWe were fishing in about 300 feet of water, out of Galveston about 100 miles,\u201d he said. \u201cWe were bottom-fishing, catching grouper and some warsaw. Then I hooked into a fish, but got hung up in the bottom.\u201d “Platt could have easily lost the fish, but managed to free the line and bring the fireback grouper up to the surface. He said he didn\u2019t immediately know what he had caught. \u201cIt was quite something,\u201d he said. \u201cThose things are pretty rare and I had never caught one, even though I\u2019ve been fishing the Gulf my whole life.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>The fireback grouper was caught using a small blue runner.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou can see the colors really well and that\u2019s why I like it so much,\u201d he said. \u201cI saw all the colors and was like, \u2018Wow, he\u2019s all lit up.\u2019 It\u2019s a fluorescent, bright color.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019ve caught 500-pound blue marlin, and yeah they\u2019re pretty, but this was the best looking fish I\u2019ve ever caught.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Fishing the Gulf with “Deadliest Catch” Deckboss, Edgar Hansen<\/h3>\n

Garmin pro Bill Platt recently had a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to take Edgar Hansen, deckboss and engineer of the of the “Northwestern” (one of the crab fishing boats featured on Discovery Channel’s “Deadliest Catch”) fishing in the Gulf of Mexico. They loaded Bill’s 36′ Invincible – rigged with Garmin’s GSD 26 CHIRP sounder – with snapper, grouper and tuna, and even caught the attention of the Texas Game Warden (who just wanted a few pictures) on their way in! Check out the video below to see ’em in action…
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