There is a new pending state fishing record in Texas after a Houston-based angler on an overnight trip out of Galveston landed an 884-pound bluefin tuna . Once certified, that fish will break the existing Texas state fishing record for bluefin tuna by 8 pounds, a record that has stood since 2021.
Angler David Esslinger was fishing aboard the Catillac in search of blue marlin on an offshore trip and spirits were low because they had gone 30 hours of fishing without one single bite, but things changed in an instant and the trip ended with a record-setting bluefin tuna.
Esslinger recently shared details of his record-setting fish with SportFishing Mag , including how it went from the slowest possible fishing trip to a record-setting outing. They were 30 hours into the trip and 160 miles offshore fishing around a floating oil rig with zero action when all of a sudden a yellowfin tuna burst from the water…