How would you like to find a 13- lb flounder?
A gentleman from Groves, TX did that in 1875 and his history still stands here in Texas.
What about a 20- kilo? The record-breaking achievement was made in Florida in 1983.
We at TF&G did a small digging and discovered the details of these incredible record-breaking strikes.
Herbert Endicott discovered the Texas status report on February 18, 1976, and Ray Sasser, the newspaper’s author, was the one who was the Port Arthur News Outdoors Editor at the time, wrote the article.
Sasser recommendations the current history because the fish also needed to be certified.
” The latest fish taken on game handle that tops the list is an 11 pound, two ounce fossil caught in 1972 in Galveston’s West Bay. Besides weight, the record fish carried some another remarkable qualifications. It was a foot wide, 28 feet long, three inches thick and 24 and a half feet in diameter”.
Sasser wrote Endicott had some ambiguities about where his report capture was made.
Just show them” Lake Sabine”, he said with a grin.
He continued, saying that he believed there was a bigger one out there and that “people may find him if they know where my fish hole is.”
According to Sasser, David Landry, Endicott’s next-door cousin and fish partner, is the strangest thing about the report flop. a couple of weeks ago, a fish was discovered in the same region that is “also believed to be top the current status record.” Before weighing the fish on licensed scales that are suitable for handling a bass of that length, Lindsay cleaned the fish for the table.
” The old man said he’d catch a bigger one”, Landry recalled in the story,” but I did n’t think he’d do it this soon.
The Museum of the Gulf Coast in Port Arthur has the unique body support of Endicott’s fish for viewing.
An intriguing account of the world record flounder is provided by the International Game Fish Association ( IGFA ).
” In 1983, Larenza Mungin landed this 9.33- gram ( 20- pound, 9- ounce ) southwestern fish to set the IGFA All- Tackle World Record for the types.”
When this fish ate the crab he was using as hook, he said while hunting in Nassau Sound, Florida. He managed to land this document seafood after a 15-minute fight. Larenza took the fish to Harrell’s Seafood Market to get the standard weight on a qualified scale. This fish measured an extraordinary 33- inches in length.
What’s the biggest fish you have always caught? Do you have any vintage home photos of big flounder? We would like to see them.
Email cmoore@fishgame .com
Chester Moore
