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Although blue runners are consumed by humans elsewhere in the world, Gulf anglers target them as bait for other species. Another helping of Blue Runners, please
March 2010
No, I don’t mean those wonderful Louisiana canned red beans. I am talking about the fish, Caranx Crysos, a.k.a. hardtails. Blue runners are a member of the jack family, Carangidae, which includes 28 species in North American Atlantic and Gulf of Mexico waters.

Gizzard shad rapidly grow too large for most freshwater game fish to eat. Don’t eat the bait!
February 2010
The herring family is a big one. Called Clupeidae by biologists, it holds 28 members in North America. Fourteen are found in Atlantic Ocean waters, including the Gulf of Mexico, five in Pacific waters, one in both the Atlantic and the Pacific, six migrate between freshwater and Atlantic ocean waters, and only two, the gizzard shad and the threadfin shad, are freshwater species. Both are common in Louisiana.

Hardhead catfish eat anything living or dead or anything that resembles the living or dead. Behold the humble hardhead
January 2010
Think of what life must be like for a hardhead catfish — despised by all, loved by none. The contempt is universal. A commercial shrimper once told me that he wished he could drain the ocean, take a stick and kill all of them.

Ricky Ruffin loves grouper, but agrees his 30.6-pound record marbled grouper is ugly. A fish so ugly it’s beautiful
December 2009
The words “I didn’t think that anything so ugly could ever win an award” really caught my attention.

Largemouth bass are the most popular species of fish amongst freshwater recreational fishermen. Florida bass are different creatures
November 2009
Largemouth bass are the most popular freshwater recreational fish in America, in spite of the changing face of the fishery. Gone are the days of a bass fisherman being pictured as a grandfather in a rowboat with a grandson or contemplative pipe-puffing angler patiently casting a clunky wooden topwater plug with his old knuckle-buster.

Commercial shrimpers, such as Jug Dufrene of Lafitte, know what fish in the sea taste best, and their choice is usually kingfish. Bring a mullet home for dinner
October 2009
Well, actually this tasty little fish is not really a mullet, but you would never believe it if you listened to South Louisianans. Usually, they call it a channel mullet, ground mullet or black mullet. Every once in a while, a fisherman with an air of sophistication will call it a whiting.

This wahoo, caught as bycatch during a king mackerel tournament, brings a smile to the face of Jeff Mire. Wahoo are the Ferraris of the Gulf
September 2009
Sleek, fast and glamorous, wahoo are the Formula One race cars of the fish world. Scientists know them as Acanthocybium solandri. The genus name is derived from the Greek words for “thorn” and “a tunna,” so it is essentially described as a “thorny tuna.”

Louisiana waters produce an abundance of large white shrimp. White shrimp drive fall marsh ecosystem
August 2009
In the marsh, almost everything eats shrimp. And in Louisiana, almost everyone eats shrimp.

Stephen Crews strains to hoist a 27-pound marsh blue catfish. Blues are La.’s freshwater big-game fish
July 2009
Seldom do anglers associate “freshwater” and “big-game fish” together. But Louisiana, with the continent’s largest rivers, large and small lakes and reservoirs, vast freshwater marshes and seemingly endless miles of small rivers, bayous and streams, is home to several species of large freshwater fish.

Colorful, striped lane snapper are a bonus fish often caught at offshore platforms. Fishing right side of platform important
June 2009
What passes for another red snapper season is upon us again, and fishermen will be zeroing in on offshore oil and gas platforms to add their two red snapper to the rest of their reef-fish catch.

Stone crabs have fearsomely large claws, but fortunately for human hands they move very slowly. La. stone crabs are a summertime treat
May 2009
Marsh fishermen are well aware that Louisiana has lots of crabs. They seem to be everywhere in fresh, brackish and salt marshes, and end up being guests of honor at countless seafood boils in coastal Louisiana.

Kelly Trahan of Denham Springs shows off two nice Larto Lake crappie he caught in February. Size limits for crappie not always good
April 2009
Hotspots come and go in fisheries management. Several things drive management controversy. One is that fishermen are very passionate about their pursuit, and like with other things that arouse passions, a lot of folks adopt the position of being an expert on what they love so much.

Research done off of Louisiana in the 1980s showed large populations of tilefish. Deepwater weirdo is a delicacy
March 2009
What Louisiana saltwater fish is colored like a rainbow, lives in tunnels, can weigh more than 30 pounds and tastes like lobster?

Research done off of Louisiana in the 1980s showed large populations of tilefish. Deepwater weirdo is a delicacy
March 2009
What Louisiana saltwater fish is colored like a rainbow, lives in tunnels, can weigh more than 30 pounds and tastes like lobster?

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