Offshore Fishing
Wahoo bite on fire out of Fourchon
Tyler Hatrel and his buddies have been mopping up on wahoo out of Fourchon. […]
Offshore Fishing
Featured
South Carolina anglers catch 2600-pound great white shark
Capt. Chip Michalove of Outcast Sport Fishing Charters and his crew caught seven great white sharks on Friday, Jan. 18 off the coast of Hilton Head Island, including a 2600-pound male. […]
Featured
NauticStar introduces three new models
NauticStar boats is introducing three new models, including a 32-foot offshore model set to debut in February at the Miami International Boat Show. […]
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Red snapper study offers up to $500 for tagged fish
Gulf researchers are offering up to $500 for select tagged red snapper in a study this summer to check the accuracy of federal snapper figures […]
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It’s prime wahoo time
Capt. William Wall, with Pelagic Charters, said now through about April is prime time for catching some impressive wahoo out of Venice. […]
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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.
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.
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.
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
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.