Bull Red Slaughter! 10/26/10

[dbarham]

I know about 5 different wardens in this area that eat at our resturaunt im gonna tell em!

[imhammer]

Great report fellas. Glad you finally got them!

Ditto on the game theives. It is the same during the flounder run with the illegals.

[sfef84]

Pm me the detail and i will take it to the game warden that lives down the road.Outstanding catch and release guys.......ya'll's arms still burning!

I'll put the details up here so any others that have good relations with tpwd can pass along the info:

I would put $50 bucks on a bet that no one out there has a fishing license.

Went out today (skunked) and recognized about a dozen guys out there from yesterday and all had 2-3 big bulls each.

Tell the Game Wardens to get down there and look closely, ( don't glass the area from above) they have their bull reds strung together and tied off to the rocks in shallow water to keep them fresh for when they leave at the end of the day.

Location: end of seawall blvd looking to the left ( towards seawolf park)

Also cast netting into large mullet schools +12 in, scaling, fileting and then cooking on their bbq's on the spot.

Spoke to a few "locals" and openly admitted that their group of about 10 "dont have papers" (don't ask how the conversation began) and " creo que noventa nueve porciento no tengan documentos y no tengo miedo por que la policia nunca estan aqui...nunca"

I think it would be safe to assume that 100-200 bulls are taken illegally a week. I'm no angel, but I have respect for fishing and game laws.

[Charlie]

Well this is what I've got :

Officer Jaime Pandlebury
jaime.pendlebury@tpwd.state.tx.us

Office 409-933-1947
Fax 409-9331964
24 hour # 281-842-8100
and as posted 1-800-792-GAME (4263)

Flood them with calls will get their attention . My question is if some of these folks are ilegals how do you get them to court or to even pay fines for that matter ?

Umm, it's called D-E-P-O-R-T-A-T-I-O-N. When I was stationed in Brownsville, we were always chasing the Mexican shark fishermen out of our waters. It was crazy because they would come into US waters, set their gill nets in the middle of the night, mark the position, then come back the next night to harvest hundreds of sharks and fish, then dash back across the border. We ended up catching a few and confiscating their boats and deporting the people back to Mexico, but there were plenty of others filling their spots. Anyways, back to the point, I think TPWD should set something up, and get these guys. Steve is right about 100's of bull red's taken per week illegally by these guys. It's really bad and someone needs to do something about it.

[Tejasreds]

Maybe call the guys and see what they say about it before you go next time.

http://www.ice.gov/contact/ero/#houston or
Report Suspicious Activity

To report suspicious activity, call ICE toll-free at 1-866-DHS-2ICE

[sfef84]

Does it make a difference that Houston is a "sanctuary city"?

[slyell]

Start taking pictures of them next time in the act... Sanctuary city? Imagine what would have happened if Bill White became governor..