Vintage Catches from the Coastal Bend

and points North and South

These are some of the photos I have been gathering from good old time fishermen like "Hip" aka Mike Sowden and Dale Whitehill. Special thanks to Jimmy Jackson for the Snook photos from Port A. If you have any old photos from around the area to share please email me at Tyler@corpusfishing.com

Keep in mind this is before we knew that you could affect the resource by overharvesting. This is just to show how it was and how it could be again someday. Click thumbnails to see the large photos.

Indian Point Pier Lemon Shark Dale Whitehill early 60's	Bob Hall Pier Hammerhead	Bob Hall Pier Tarpon 1963
Tiger Shark from Pt. Isabel 1964	36 Pound Snook Cline's Point Port Aransas 1939	Bob Hall Pier Tarpon 1963
A big catch of snook from Cline's Point Port Aransas 1939	11' 3" Hammerhead	Mike "Hip" Sowden 12'2" Tiger
1920's beach camp 8th Pass south of Matamoros  Courtesy of Jimmy Jackson	Judge John R. Beasley of Beeville leads a group across the water in a car boat at 8th Pass. Courtesy of Jimmy Jackson	Car boat in action at 8th Pass  Courtesy of Jimmy Jackson
C.J. Rogers with a 535 lb jewfish taken from the Freeport Jetties late'40's. Courtesy of David Applegate	Troy Martin Bull Shark	C.J. Roger's good friend Ernie Reed with two 14' plus sawfish from Galveston 1940. Courtesy of David Applegate
Tommy Martin's Big Shell Tiger Shark	Pat Beseda's Hammerhead	Norman Bateman's Tiger Shark
Mike Hip Sowden's(in middle) 12'2" Mansfield Jetty Tiger Shark	Jerry Boyd's Sawfish 1964 Bob Hall Pier	"Little Paul" Smith's Big Hammerhead
	Tommy Bratcher's Tiger

 

 

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