Photos via Facebook David Esslinger and a group of buddies headed offshore from Galveston, Texas around daybreak on Thursday. They were on Carson Deer’s offshore boat, Catillac, a 46-foot catamaran.

David Esslinger and crewmates pose with an 884-pound bluefin tuna caught off the coast of Galveston, Texas. Screengrab from Facebook post by David Esslinger. A Texas fisherman may have landed a ...

Jace Tunnell, a marine biologist from the Harte Research Institute at Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi, said their sudden ...

A pending Texas state record bluefin tuna, described by Esslinger as "the size of a car," was hauled in after an epic five-hour battle off the coast, near a floating rig in the Gulf of Mexico.

David Esslinger and a group of buddies headed offshore from Galveston, Texas around daybreak on Thursday. They were on Carson Deer’s offshore boat, Catillac, a 46-foot catamaran. The crew was ...