Will There Ever Be New State Records?

I have no doubt the reason we don't see those super big sand trout catches any longer is due to the literal billions of sand trout caught in shrimping trawls over the years. The Texas record sand trout was 6.5 pounds and caught 51 years ago. One could look at major coastal freeze kills as being a limiting factor in big trout production, and that's a valid point, but Wallace's fish came seven years after the major freeze kill of 1989. [Extracted from the article]