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Black magic
From short jokes to hand-me-downs that don’t quite fit, it’s tough being the smallest kid in the family.
Offshore Fishing
Sidebars
Late night delight
Anyone fortunate enough to see the Delta’s offshore waters at night, knows the incredible vision of flood lights illuminating the many oil and gas platforms. The bright stuff is intended for human safety, but fish know how to leverage this bait-gathering influence to their benefit.
Creature Feature
Let’s call a spade a spade
They are everywhere. If you fish offshore at oil and gas platforms, clouds of the convict-striped fish are often visible underwater. Atlantic spadefish are a dominant species in the fish communities that develop around platforms. […]
News Breaker
Top 7 features for trout kayaks
Sure, sure, it’s old news that kayaks are a deadly effective tool for slipping up quietly on redfish grazing for lunch is marsh ponds only a foot deep.
But speckled trout is a whole ’nother game.
Cobia
Gulf Council requesting input from anglers on potential cobia changes
In response to a potential decline in cobia numbers, the Gulf of Mexico Fishery Management Council is considering ways to reduce harvests — including increasing the minimum size limit, decreasing the possession limit, imposing a vessel limit — or some combination of all these measures.
News Breaker
Free-diver shoots pending world-record tripletail near Venice
Blake Ittmann has been free-diving the waters south of Venice for only four years, but in that time he’s become pretty selective in what he shoots. Ittmann and his buddies could absolutely load the boat with tripletail at some of the platforms they frequent now, but there’s not a whole lot of challenge in that.
Cobia
Video: Crazy cobia bite going on now
Cobia fishing is in full swing as they migrate along the coast this month.
News Breaker
Tripletail out of Venice, if you’re crazy enough to target them
Are you crazy? I mean, literally, are you crazy? So crazy that you’d dive 70 feet down in shark-infested waters with no air tank just to shoot a fish?
News Breaker
Dragon-like catch shocks Louisiana guide
It’s been a very strange year for Capt. Jamie Gaspard of Pure Adrenalin Fishing Charters out of Grand Isle and Fourchon.
Sidebars
Pogy prudence
Prior to a recent mangrove snapper trip, Capt. Ross Montet loaded up with fresh pogies he cast-netted in the West Delta. He started in open water, but found he was chasing fast-moving schools that were outrunning his net in the 10- to 12-foot depths.
News Breaker
LDWF: Red snapper state season to close tonight
Today’s the day.
Sunday is likely the last day for recreational red snapper anglers to get in a 2018 trip — according to a press release from the Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries, the state season will close tonight ( Aug. 12) at 11:59 p.m.
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LDWF: Red snapper landings jump to 651,000 pounds
If you’re looking to make a red snapper trip this summer, you better hurry.
Nothing is certain at this point, but it’s at least possible that Louisiana’s snapper fishermen could be enjoying their last weekend of the extended recreational season.