Overfishing Vs. Underfishing

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Originally Posted by "W"

I know also for a fact huge trout stay offshore , I was in Galveston a few years back going offshore to an Exxon deepwater platform . I was talking to some divers at the heliport and they just came off a job right off the beach by sabine. He said you should of seen the huge speckle trout sitting inside the platform. He said the would sit with noise pinned to legs down stream current all day . I ask how big did he think they were. He said about 5 were over 30inchs and if he had to guess weight 8-10lbers .

And these trout could never be caught with rod n reel ...

That was one rig. What time of year? Summer? A platform by the beach is technically 'offshore', but not really far offshore.

When people think big trout, they think winter/spring time and shallow water inside. If there was a tournament this weekend, I would think the majority of people would be inside and in relatively shallow water and not at a platform.