This is Adrian Gutierrez who caught a tagged redfish in the CCA Texas Star Tournament fishing tournament.
KRIS 6 NEWS Gutierrez couldn’t help but smile from after re-watching his catch on June 22.
“When you talk about emotions, I talked about that morning, I thought, ‘I just don’t want to have a heart attack if I catch a tagged redfish,” Gutierrez said.
While Gutierrez didn’t catch a heart attack, he reeled in his fish about 1 mile out from the boat dock near Laguna Madre right here in Corpus Christi.
“I looked up at the sky and I said, ‘C’mon God, put us on a fish. Uncle Rudy if you’re really up there… and it happened right after that,” Gutierrez said.
KRIS 6 NEWS The tournament goes all along the Texas shoreline, spanning 600 miles from Louisiana to Mexico so Gutierrez caught just one out of 126 tagged redfish released.
“It’s like a bowl of sugar and that one grain is inside that bowl of sugar and it’s hard,” Gutierrez said.
Assistant Director of the CCA Texas State Tournament, Ryan Towns, put it into perspective how difficult it is to catch one of these fish.