Angler Catches Rare Leopard Redfish

Not all redfish look the same, but you don't see one that looks almost like a speckled trout often.

- Steven Hill

Capt. Danny Alvarez has been fishing since he returned home from military service about half a century ago. He has spent much of that time guiding charter anglers to flounder, black drum, speckled trout and redfish in the productive coastal waters around Corpus Christi, Texas. But in all those years, he's never once laid eyes on a rare leopard redfish outside the pages of a fishing magazine-until August 27, when Alvarez hosted his son, Eric, and several of their in-laws on an outing on Laguna Madre near Baffin Bay.

After helping them catch their fill of trout, Alvarez took the extended family to an area where he'd been having good luck with oversize red drum.