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Texas Fishing Piers Yield Rewards
Texas fishing piers provide a safe, comfortable connection to the sea and the big-league sportfish that inhabit it. On the right time and tide, Texas pier fishermen post some exceptional catches. Wind and weather play nasty tricks on bay fishermen through spring and summer, but conditions beneath beachfront piers this time of year always are favorable for one species or another. When the surf is roiled and sandy, sharks and bull reds to 50 pounds or more patrol the guts and bars off the ends of piers. As wind settles and water begins to clear, 20-pound jack crevalle prowl the color change looking for easy meals. Reds stick around to get what...
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Texas fishing piers provide a safe, comfortable connection to the sea and the big-league sportfish that inhabit it. On the right time and tide, Texas pier fishermen post some exceptional catches. Wind and weather play nasty tricks on bay fishermen through spring and summer, but conditions beneath beachfront piers this time of year always are favorable for one species or another. When the surf is roiled and sandy, sharks and bull reds to 50 pounds or more patrol the guts and bars off the ends of piers. As wind settles and water begins to clear, 20-pound jack crevalle prowl the color change looking for easy meals. Reds stick around to get what...
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Crevalle Jack Fish Species Information
| Scientific Fish Name: | Caranx hippos |
| Other Fish Species Names: | common jack, blacktailed trevally, cabalo, green jack, horse mackerel, horse-eye jack, kingfish, trevally |
| Regions Fished: | western Atlantic Ocean from Nova Scotia to Uruguay and the eastern Atlantic from Portugal to Angola. |
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The fish usually weighs between 15 to 30 pounds, but a 51 pound Crevalle Jack was taken off the coast of Florida. Crevalle jacks can be poisonous to eat due to the threat of ciguatera poisoning, but they are prized as a game fish. |
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