Texas State Record Speckled Trout

01032020 The heaviest speckled trout in the Texas record books weighed 1560 pounds and was caught by Bud Rowland with a fly rod and a home-made crab-like fly thats about as big as a silver dollar.

Texas state record speckled trout. Throughout the bays of the Texas Coastal Bend the most frequently caught game fish is the Speckled Trout. There are big ones here in Port OConner Baffin Bay and East Matagorda will produce the next Texas state record Speckled Trout I believe or down by South Padre Island. Species Weight Length Date.

28062004 AUSTIN Texas While many anglers along the Texas coast were complaining about unusually poor catch rates during 2002 Carl Bud. 28102016 TFG has just learned that Jim Wallace has passed away at age 66. Theres something about those waters that grow much bigger fish than other places.

Join Chester Moore in the conclusion of a three-part series on trophy speckled trout as he looks at record trout big trout catching trends and likely locations of monster fish on Higher Calling Gulf Coast. The heaviest trout in the Lone Star record book caught on a baitcasting rod and reel weighed 13 pounds 11 ounces. While flyfishing the lower Laguna Madre on May 23 2002 Rowland caught and released a spotted seatrout that measured 37.

He has probably 40. In Texas the record spotted seatrout caught was 3375 inches 857 cm and 13 pounds 9 ounces about 6 kg. Will it be broken.

Wallaces state record 13-pound 11-ounce speck Stedmans 12-14-pounder and Sellers 11-pounder are career fish that oddly enough were hooked within minutes of each other on February 6 1996 as these anglers waded Baffin Bay south of Corpus Christi on the lower Texas coast casting the hottest big trout baits on the Texas Gulf Coast - Corkys. Known by the scientific community as the Spotted Seatrout locally it is referred to simply as a trout or a spec. Youll need at least a 10 -pounder this year to join the group Last year only one angler managed to crack into the record books for the states Top 10 speckled trout.

226 rows 04082019 sand trout. 04022021 Where is the next world record speckled trout likely to live. An 847-pound speck landed in 2000 was among the 44 species listed as water-body records for.