Longtime skateboarder Nathan Pacheco recently pulled off one of the toughest tricks off wheels — landing an estimated 8-pound bass along the River Walk near Pearl.
Not only did the 25-year-old reel in the whopper with a dislocated elbow, he said, he also hooked it on his first cast. His fishing buddy snapped a photo of him with his catch before Pacheco released it back into the San Antonio River. Pacheco caught the fish earlier this month.
“When I caught him I was like, no way, I didn’t even know they got that big out there,” Pacheco said.
They do indeed. Two years ago, the Express-News reported on a San Antonian who reeled in an estimated 4-pound largemouth bass outside Velvet Taco at 103 W. Grayson by Pearl. Pacheco caught his bass just a few hundred feet away under the Grayson street bridge near La Gloria…