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Maggie’s Gulf Coast Surf Fishing
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Re: Gulf Coast Surf Fishing
Stuff should be like sour kraut, been submerged in salt water, and in the sun for a while lol
Stuff should be like sour kraut, been submerged in salt water, and in the sun for a while lol
Re: Gulf Coast Surf Fishing
Ah, the elusive Square Grouper. Use to be very common around these parts in the 80's.
Ah, the elusive Square Grouper. Use to be very common around these parts in the 80's.
Re: Gulf Coast Surf Fishing
Next you're going to tell us that you "fought with it for 45 minutes".
Nice catch... now about that wall mount......
Next you're going to tell us that you "fought with it for 45 minutes".
Nice catch... now about that wall mount......
Re: Gulf Coast Surf Fishing
Too hell with the wall mount.... gut it and put it in "the smoker"!!!
Too hell with the wall mount.... gut it and put it in "the smoker"!!!
Re: Gulf Coast Surf Fishing
<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: secondstoryguy</div><div class="ubbcode-body">Oregano. </div></div>
Lot of that around Austin, No?
<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: secondstoryguy</div><div class="ubbcode-body">Oregano. </div></div>
Lot of that around Austin, No?
Re: Gulf Coast Surf Fishing
<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Goldie</div><div class="ubbcode-body">Looks like it was well wrapped....could have been your "retirement package". </div></div>
100 lbs @ 150 Per oz= $240,000.
Don't see that being brought in with that little pole though.
<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Goldie</div><div class="ubbcode-body">Looks like it was well wrapped....could have been your "retirement package". </div></div>
100 lbs @ 150 Per oz= $240,000.
Don't see that being brought in with that little pole though.
Re: Gulf Coast Surf Fishing
That picture has bad Juju written all over it. The prison time would be the least of my worries I wouldn't be standing there with a dang fishing pole due to more than likely there would be people with automatic weapons out looking to recover their said lost bag of goodies an DEA folks out looking too. No thanks I'd cut my line an go looking for a better place to fish. Fishing is suppose to be relaxing not causing headaches an drama. Just my two cents.
That picture has bad Juju written all over it. The prison time would be the least of my worries I wouldn't be standing there with a dang fishing pole due to more than likely there would be people with automatic weapons out looking to recover their said lost bag of goodies an DEA folks out looking too. No thanks I'd cut my line an go looking for a better place to fish. Fishing is suppose to be relaxing not causing headaches an drama. Just my two cents.
Re: Gulf Coast Surf Fishing
Looks like the high tide washed it up and as it receided, the bale was left. Bet the guy just walked up on it. Have heard of these washing up for decades all over the gulf coast.
Looks like the high tide washed it up and as it receided, the bale was left. Bet the guy just walked up on it. Have heard of these washing up for decades all over the gulf coast.
Re: Gulf Coast Surf Fishing
Found a news story from last summer that gives a little context to the pic.
Sign of drug gangs' new tactic floats in with tide
Lost cargoes turning up more often on state's beaches
By DANE SCHILLER
HOUSTON CHRONICLE
Aug. 5, 2010, 10:24AM
Todd Anderson, a resident of Crosby, says he found a jumbo brick of marijuana that washed up while he was combing Crystal Beach.
at least a dozen times in the last year, small fortunes in illegal narcotics washed up on Texas beaches after being lost by seaborne smugglers scrambling for new ways into the United States, according to federal officials.
The drugs, wrapped in plastic and potentially worth millions of dollars on the streets, were turned in by beachcombers, fishermen, park rangers and deputies. The lost loads popped up all along the coast — mostly cocaine, followed by marijuana and methamphetamine.
About 800 pounds of marijuana washed up on South Padre Island in one shot, 24 kilograms of cocaine in Jefferson County, and another similar-sized load of cocaine near a remote beach of High Island, according to Houston's High Intensity Drug Trafficking Area, a coalition of law-enforcement agencies here and in coastal counties.
The latest known Texas find came in May, when a woman strolling near Galveston found a barnacled black bag with 37 pounds of cocaine pressed into bricks.
And Todd Anderson, a resident of Crosby, recalls how in July 2008 he found a jumbo brick of marijuana that washed up while he was combing Crystal Beach.
He called the sheriff’s office and was told to throw it away. He did, but not before he posed for a picture with the find.
"You never knew what was going to wash up on that beach," said Anderson, 48, whose parents lived near the watr. "One day it could be dead bodies to drugs to stolen cars."
Federal officials contend the "wash-ups," as they are known, are among the strongest signals yet that traffickers are turning more to the sea to evade American efforts to secure the 2,000-mile U.S.-Mexico border.
"Drug trafficking organizations have been "extremely adaptive and resourceful" at shifting routes to evade law enforcement and rival traffickers," according to a late July report by Congress' investigative arm, the Government Accountability Office.
Adding to the woes, officials long have said that drug-trafficking cartels have enough cash to outspend them when it comes to buying the weapons, communications equipment and anything else they need to penetrate international transit zones.
'Somebody is hurting'
There is a string of theories about how the drugs ended up on the beaches. They were dumped by traffickers evading capture; bounced off a speed boat that hit a big wave while zipping up the coast; or floated up as the last signs of a boat forever lost at sea during a journey that went bad.
"Somebody is hurting over those kilos of cocaine," said Sgt. Joaquin Cantu of the Kleberg County Sheriff's Office. "I'd say the runners would be in a bit of hot water, especially if word got back to where they came from that they'd lost a load."
Traffickers take to the seas with a network of mother ships, high-speed motorboats and enclosed craft that ride low in the water and mimic the look of submarines.
For the first time, a fully operational submarine was seized from traffickers after it was found in an inland waterway along the Ecuador-Colombia border, authorities announced last month.
Under the cover of darkness, fast, open-hulled fishing boats hug the edges of the largely isolated Texas shore and leave loads in the dunes.
Precise locations can be determined by GPS and coordinated with four-wheel drive vehicles that later drive along the shores to pick them up.
"There are many remote locations along the (region's) coastline which offer smuggling opportunities," notes a new report by the HIDTA coalition.
Beach visitors warned
"The scope of maritime drug smuggling still remains one of the most significant intelligence gaps within the (region)," it says.
DeDe Mladucky, chief ranger for Padre Island National Seashore, said rangers are well aware they face unknowns so close to Mexico.
"We have some extra gear that some other park rangers might not carry," she said.
So far, there have been only a few close calls between traffickers and legitimate park visitors, she said.
"As far as the drugs go, knock on wood, we have been pretty lucky," she said. "Visitors have seen folks pull up on the beach in their launch boats and bury the stuff in the sand. When there is no moon out here, it is pretty dark."
Signs have been posted along the beach warning visitors of possible smuggling activity due to the proximity of the border.
The quantities of drugs turning up along Texas beaches are a reminder of the Wild West days of southern Florida, when speedboats and aircraft would try to push through the porous shores there.
Calhoun County Sheriff B.B. Browning, said he is concerned that with the traffickers will come more danger.
"We gotta be prepared for it," he said.
"They don't want to be seen or heard," he said of the traffickers. "They could take drastic measures - I fear for the public's safety at times."
[email protected]
Read more: http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/metropolitan/7139792.html#ixzz1RC6ymTQ5
Found a news story from last summer that gives a little context to the pic.
Sign of drug gangs' new tactic floats in with tide
Lost cargoes turning up more often on state's beaches
By DANE SCHILLER
HOUSTON CHRONICLE
Aug. 5, 2010, 10:24AM
Todd Anderson, a resident of Crosby, says he found a jumbo brick of marijuana that washed up while he was combing Crystal Beach.
at least a dozen times in the last year, small fortunes in illegal narcotics washed up on Texas beaches after being lost by seaborne smugglers scrambling for new ways into the United States, according to federal officials.
The drugs, wrapped in plastic and potentially worth millions of dollars on the streets, were turned in by beachcombers, fishermen, park rangers and deputies. The lost loads popped up all along the coast — mostly cocaine, followed by marijuana and methamphetamine.
About 800 pounds of marijuana washed up on South Padre Island in one shot, 24 kilograms of cocaine in Jefferson County, and another similar-sized load of cocaine near a remote beach of High Island, according to Houston's High Intensity Drug Trafficking Area, a coalition of law-enforcement agencies here and in coastal counties.
The latest known Texas find came in May, when a woman strolling near Galveston found a barnacled black bag with 37 pounds of cocaine pressed into bricks.
And Todd Anderson, a resident of Crosby, recalls how in July 2008 he found a jumbo brick of marijuana that washed up while he was combing Crystal Beach.
He called the sheriff’s office and was told to throw it away. He did, but not before he posed for a picture with the find.
"You never knew what was going to wash up on that beach," said Anderson, 48, whose parents lived near the watr. "One day it could be dead bodies to drugs to stolen cars."
Federal officials contend the "wash-ups," as they are known, are among the strongest signals yet that traffickers are turning more to the sea to evade American efforts to secure the 2,000-mile U.S.-Mexico border.
"Drug trafficking organizations have been "extremely adaptive and resourceful" at shifting routes to evade law enforcement and rival traffickers," according to a late July report by Congress' investigative arm, the Government Accountability Office.
Adding to the woes, officials long have said that drug-trafficking cartels have enough cash to outspend them when it comes to buying the weapons, communications equipment and anything else they need to penetrate international transit zones.
'Somebody is hurting'
There is a string of theories about how the drugs ended up on the beaches. They were dumped by traffickers evading capture; bounced off a speed boat that hit a big wave while zipping up the coast; or floated up as the last signs of a boat forever lost at sea during a journey that went bad.
"Somebody is hurting over those kilos of cocaine," said Sgt. Joaquin Cantu of the Kleberg County Sheriff's Office. "I'd say the runners would be in a bit of hot water, especially if word got back to where they came from that they'd lost a load."
Traffickers take to the seas with a network of mother ships, high-speed motorboats and enclosed craft that ride low in the water and mimic the look of submarines.
For the first time, a fully operational submarine was seized from traffickers after it was found in an inland waterway along the Ecuador-Colombia border, authorities announced last month.
Under the cover of darkness, fast, open-hulled fishing boats hug the edges of the largely isolated Texas shore and leave loads in the dunes.
Precise locations can be determined by GPS and coordinated with four-wheel drive vehicles that later drive along the shores to pick them up.
"There are many remote locations along the (region's) coastline which offer smuggling opportunities," notes a new report by the HIDTA coalition.
Beach visitors warned
"The scope of maritime drug smuggling still remains one of the most significant intelligence gaps within the (region)," it says.
DeDe Mladucky, chief ranger for Padre Island National Seashore, said rangers are well aware they face unknowns so close to Mexico.
"We have some extra gear that some other park rangers might not carry," she said.
So far, there have been only a few close calls between traffickers and legitimate park visitors, she said.
"As far as the drugs go, knock on wood, we have been pretty lucky," she said. "Visitors have seen folks pull up on the beach in their launch boats and bury the stuff in the sand. When there is no moon out here, it is pretty dark."
Signs have been posted along the beach warning visitors of possible smuggling activity due to the proximity of the border.
The quantities of drugs turning up along Texas beaches are a reminder of the Wild West days of southern Florida, when speedboats and aircraft would try to push through the porous shores there.
Calhoun County Sheriff B.B. Browning, said he is concerned that with the traffickers will come more danger.
"We gotta be prepared for it," he said.
"They don't want to be seen or heard," he said of the traffickers. "They could take drastic measures - I fear for the public's safety at times."
[email protected]
Read more: http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/metropolitan/7139792.html#ixzz1RC6ymTQ5
Re: Gulf Coast Surf Fishing
Man, just imagine what you could buy with the money you make of selling that, I know I would be filling up my gun safe a bit.
Man, just imagine what you could buy with the money you make of selling that, I know I would be filling up my gun safe a bit.
Re: Gulf Coast Surf Fishing
Some buddies and myself were surfing in Florida and came across one of these.
The smell was wild, a dead/rotten animal doesn't compare.
I picked up some of the weed after the cops hauled it off and gave it to someone I knew.
He said it was the harshest shit ever (I could imagine)and threw the joint out the window after one drag.
I'll say he was not happy when I told him where it came from.
Some buddies and myself were surfing in Florida and came across one of these.
The smell was wild, a dead/rotten animal doesn't compare.
I picked up some of the weed after the cops hauled it off and gave it to someone I knew.
He said it was the harshest shit ever (I could imagine)and threw the joint out the window after one drag.
I'll say he was not happy when I told him where it came from.
Re: Gulf Coast Surf Fishing
<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: TCA4570</div><div class="ubbcode-body"><div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Goldie</div><div class="ubbcode-body">Looks like it was well wrapped....could have been your "retirement package". </div></div>
100 lbs @ 150 Per oz= $240,000.
Don't see that being brought in with that little pole though.
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Actually, its more like 200 a lb. like that, its hardly worth 240k..
<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: TCA4570</div><div class="ubbcode-body"><div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Goldie</div><div class="ubbcode-body">Looks like it was well wrapped....could have been your "retirement package". </div></div>
100 lbs @ 150 Per oz= $240,000.
Don't see that being brought in with that little pole though.
</div></div>
Actually, its more like 200 a lb. like that, its hardly worth 240k..
Re: Gulf Coast Surf Fishing
Back in the late 70's it was $35-40/0z. I was told it is now around $200/oz.
So depending on how it is sold/ cut. 100 lbs @ 16oz per lb... you might be looking at $300k street.
Back in the late 70's it was $35-40/0z. I was told it is now around $200/oz.
So depending on how it is sold/ cut. 100 lbs @ 16oz per lb... you might be looking at $300k street.
Re: Gulf Coast Surf Fishing
Used to live in south Palm beach county FL, on the beach, office was on the beach also. One three day period, right infront of our window, with a strong north wind ( makes the Gulf Stream angry), we had two bodies, a boat and a lot of small black packages wash up.
Beach was closed and patroled 24 hours a day until no more washed up.
Looked at the boat, a 24' wood and fiberglass open, tiller steered 50HP. Likely came from Bahamas, trying to go in the crappy seas, to evade radar and the fact that there was no boat traffice then. Got stopped in my Fountain a couple times out of Lake Worth inlet - " the weather is too bad for anything other than smuggling". I had left one inlet and came in another, they were looking for someone/thing for sure.
Used to live in south Palm beach county FL, on the beach, office was on the beach also. One three day period, right infront of our window, with a strong north wind ( makes the Gulf Stream angry), we had two bodies, a boat and a lot of small black packages wash up.
Beach was closed and patroled 24 hours a day until no more washed up.
Looked at the boat, a 24' wood and fiberglass open, tiller steered 50HP. Likely came from Bahamas, trying to go in the crappy seas, to evade radar and the fact that there was no boat traffice then. Got stopped in my Fountain a couple times out of Lake Worth inlet - " the weather is too bad for anything other than smuggling". I had left one inlet and came in another, they were looking for someone/thing for sure.
