Posted on 05/25/2022 6:55:46 AM PDT by SJackson
A San Antonio woman caught a special gift after her wedding in Port Aransas over the weekend.
Eliot Waggoner Granville, 34, got married at the Chapel on the Dunes on Sunday. She and her husband, John Earnest Granville, enjoy fishing and vacationing near the beach.
"It was our wedding night and we were sitting on the bed and my husband was like, 'well, what do you want to do?," Granville said. "I'm more of a fisher than he is so I said let's go fishing."
Wearing a wedding dress and veil, Eliot Waggoner Granville of San Antonio caught a massive black drum in Port Aransas after her wedding. Still wearing a wedding dress and veil, Granville and her husband headed to the Red Dot Pier in Corpus Christi to try their luck. After about 45 minutes, she felt a bite.
"It wasn't huge bites or anything," Granville said. "But then I started reeling him in and he started fighting with me and it took like 10 to 15 minutes for me to get him to the pier."
As she reeled the fish closer to the pier, she realized just how big it was and sent her husband to ask a nearby group for a net. They managed to scoop the head and part of the body with the net and pull it onto the pier by the tail.
Granville said she and the group guessed that the fish, a black drum, weighed around 40 to 50 pounds. They released the fish but not before taking a couple photos.
"I think that's probably the biggest fish I've ever caught," Granville laughed. "My arms are actually still sore. It took two grown men to pick him up and I couldn't pick him up myself."
Wearing a wedding dress and veil, Eliot Waggoner Granville of San Antonio caught a massive black drum in Port Aransas after her wedding. Granville started fishing when she was young. After her father died last August, fishing became a way to feel closer to him.
"Other people had been there for a long time and didn't catch anything, so I feel like it was dad watching over me and sending me a little — or big — wedding gift," Granville said.
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Awesome pictures.
That woman is a keeper.
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I think she married the biggest fish she ever caught…
Not sure "let's go fishing" was the answer he was looking for.
How does a “black drum” taste?
I can think of something else to do on your wedding night...
We honeymooned 3 days in NYC...and came home early to go deer hunting in Upstate NY. This would be right up our alley.
Now that’s a fish!
Black drum are good...at least I like ‘em.
That one may be a little too big however....they tend to get worms when growing a bit larger.
Play cards? 🙂
What is better than fishin’? Man is trying to keep his lady happy.
Honey, you smell like fish…
She wore her wedding dress and then went fishing. Maybe she’s already been married before, so it’s just a dress. Might as well take some goofy photos to post on Facebook.
Look up “I love sushi” sticker on the internet...
Am I going to have to change my safe search setting???
The taste is good but usually full of worms. If cooked all the way through, the worms won’t hurt you.
You must live in Ellen Stefanick’s district. Why are the dems beating up on her? She’s been doing some good things.
Like Red Fish, which up thisaway are called puppy drum.
The scales are as big as guitar picks. The meat is kind of red, and the consistancy is not flaky, but firm.
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