A South Texas man reeled in the largest red snapper ever recorded off the Texas coast. Joey Beaver, of Victoria, bagged a 40-inch, 38.75 pound red snapper about five miles off the coast of Port O’Connor, a small fishing community between Corpus Christi and Galveston, in the Gulf of Mexico on June 1. “I thought it was a shark or something the way it was pulling,” said Beaver, 28. “When I got it on the boat after about 20 minutes, it was crazy, everybody on the boat was going nuts.”
Beaver’s catch b
eat two state records for red snapper, including the State Rod and Reel Record and the Water Body Record, according to the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department. The previous record was held by Jack Brumby, who in 1998 caught a 38.13 pound red snapper.
“At first, I didn’t think it was big enough” to beat the record, said Beaver, who used squid as bait and a Penn reel. “I think my wife is more happy about it than I am.”
He has been fishing since he was 4. Beaver was with his father-in-law and captain, Russel Cady; brother-in-law, Johnmichael Caraway; and Cady’s friends Jason Jones and Darren Drake, he told the Victoria Advocate.
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