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.
Not so good. Those Big Uglies (the fish) are full of spaghetti worms at that size. Small ones not too bad. Big ones catch and release.
She caught a big one-eyed trouser trout later that evening...
Grilled Drum on the half-shell is the only way to eat them. It’s how I cook my redfish.
Big ‘ol black drum. Probably wormy as can be too.
It’s good, but fish that big tend to be infested with spaghetti worms. The person eating it wouldn’t know that, but the person who fileted it would. The smaller ones are called puppy drums. Really good and no worms.
You're doing it wrong!
lmao
I hope that’s not a rented dress...
“Awesome pictures.”
Exaggerating size of fish!
I don’t know...It’s just a funny sexy sticker...
I’ll bet she caught a second “massive fish” later that night!😎
Maybe if she got really excited about catching that fish, she channeled that into more co-ed activities the rest of the night. She’s a looker, so you hope for his sake that was the outcome.
Love in the age of Facebook.
Why else going fishing in your wedding dress?
Btw, she’s a beauty.
Wedding night
What do you want to do?
Let’s go fishing....
and ...
He takes her fishing
This proves I am living in a science fiction movie. About 30 minutes in.
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I was wondering how many posts it would take...
You win the thread.
That’s exactly what I was thinking, baking cookie’s. Wink, wink.
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