Captain Ahab and the Pirates of Black Bay

This week the Sportsman TV crew gets twisted with Fin Twisters Guide Service in Venice, La. Fin Twisters owner Captain Walter Heathcock took host Greg Hackney and Bowie Outfitters' Lee Benoit on a grand tour of the coast around Venice.

This week’s episode of Sportsman TV features a tried and true but often forgotten trick of inshore fishing - live cocahoe minnows. The cocahoe used to be a mainstay in boats around the coast but as they became less available anglers have started using live shrimp and croakers more often.

You never know what creatures lurk below the waters of Lake Pontchartrain.

Vegetation is a prime source of fish finding, and we had the right motor for the job in this episode.

On Sportsman TV we could never have gotten this far without the help of Louisiana's finest charter captains.

Captain Travis Miller came to Louisiana from San Diego years ago and along that journey found his calling as a fishing guide in Dularge, LA.

They're big, ferocious, and they have spots....and they live at the bottom of the Mississippi River.

Grand Isle, Louisiana is a true sportsman's paradise where life slows down and awesome fishing memories are made.

The Biloxi Marsh is a daunting 90,000 acres of wetlands in St. Bernard Parish. Unsure of where to begin, we teamed up with Capt. Mike Gallo in this episode to guide us through out first trip to the Biloxi.

In this episode of Sportsman TV we went chasing after speckled trout with two of Louisiana's best fishing guides.