{"id":9646,"date":"2019-01-04T18:34:11","date_gmt":"2019-01-04T18:34:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/?p=9646"},"modified":"2019-01-04T18:34:11","modified_gmt":"2019-01-04T18:34:11","slug":"winter-season-for-red-snapper-fishing-is-back","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/?p=9646","title":{"rendered":"Winter Season for Red Snapper Fishing is Back"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Brown family of Wisconsin showing part of the bounty they caught on Christmas Eve. Photo: Tony Vindell\/LFN<\/p><\/div>\n

by Tony Vindell\/LFN<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

Tired of having ham, turkey, mashed potatoes and gravy and all of the traditional dishes that are popular during the holiday season?<\/p>\n

If so, grab a cooler and head out to South Padre Island as fishing for red snapper in gulf waters has just started for the winter season.<\/p>\n

Cap. Murphy Fishing Charters Services is now taking fishing enthusiasts on eight hour trips in state waters where the limit is four red snapper per angler, as opposed to two fish in federal waters.<\/p>\n

And fishing should be good as the three boat businesses that operate out of the Island have not fished in state waters for nearly the last three months.<\/p>\n

Stephen Murphy, of the family owned charter fishing operation, said now is the time to try to hook the highly sought red snapper plus other species.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe have not fished in a while,\u201d he said. \u201dSo there is plenty of fish out there.\u201d<\/p>\n

Murphy\u2019s boat is the first vessel making the off-shore fishing trips but others, such as Osprey Fishing Trips, has also begun making trips in state waters which is out to 9 nautical miles in the Gulf of Mexico.<\/p>\n

However, a trip is made whenever the weather permits it.<\/p>\n

On the first trip aboard a Murphy\u2019s vessel, close to 30 anglers went deep fishing on Christmas Eve and just about each of the fishing men and women came back with their four-fish limit.<\/p>\n

Shawn Reyes, who lives in Denver, said this was his first red snapper trip.<\/p>\n

\u201cFishing was great,\u201d he said. \u201cWe will probably come back every year to fish here.\u201d<\/p>\n

Gus Brown of Wisconsin took 16 family members on the same trip.<\/p>\n

They came back with a bonanza of red snapper.<\/p>\n

\u201cI have been fishing here for about eight years on and off, but this is the first time for many of them,\u201d he said. \u201cWe will be having fish for Christmas instead of ham or turkey.\u201d<\/p>\n

Anyone interested in taking a deep sea fishing trip can call the following numbers:<\/p>\n

Murphy\u2019s Fishing Charters: 956-761-2764.<\/p>\n

Osprey Fishing: 956-761-6655<\/p>\n

Breakaway Cruises: 956-761-2212<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

by Tony Vindell\/LFN Tired of having ham, turkey, mashed potatoes and gravy and all of the traditional dishes that are popular during the holiday season? If so, grab a cooler and head out to South Padre Island as fishing for red snapper in gulf waters has just started for the winter season. Cap. Murphy Fishing […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":9628,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9646","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9646","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9646"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9646\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9647,"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9646\/revisions\/9647"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/9628"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9646"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9646"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9646"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}