Louisiana Sportsman

The Louisiana recreational red snapper season moves to weekends only (Friday, Saturday and Sunday) effective July 13, according to the Louisiana Wildlife and Fisheries Commission.

Red snapper season moves to weekends-only starting July 13

July 3, 2018 From News Reports

The Louisiana Wildlife and Fisheries Commission on Tuesday voted to move to a weekends-only recreational red snapper season, starting on Friday, July 13.[…]

Catching red snapper using artificial jigs or squid

June 27, 2018 Louisiana Sportsman

A video from a fishing trip out of Port Mansfield, Tex., showing you how to catch red snapper on artificial jigs and using squid on octopus circle hooks.[…]

Recreational red snapper season to close July 8

June 26, 2018 From News Reports

The Louisiana Wildlife and Fisheries Commission voted today, June 26, to close the current recreational, 7-days-per-week red snapper season at 11:59 p.m. on Sunday, July 8.[…]

Free diver spears potential world record mangrove snapper in Grand Isle blocks

June 8, 2018 Patrick Bonin

Even when you’re spearfishing, you still gotta go to know.

On a choppy day late last month with dirty water and poor visibility when conditions weren’t actually the greatest, Dustin Pitre and Coty Cheramie, both of Galliano, headed out of Moran’s Marina in Fourchon and ventured to Grand Isle Block 41B to do some spearfishing while free diving.[…]

Rare leucistic red snapper caught during Fourchon rodeo

June 5, 2018 Patrick Bonin

They say it’s not how you start — but how you finish that matters.

That was the case last Friday, June 1, when Tyler Bourgeois headed out of Moran’s Marina in Fourchon around 6:30 a.m. for a red snapper trip during the Catholic High School (Baton Rouge) Alumni Fishing Rodeo.[…]

LDWF: Louisiana is in charge of red snapper, now let’s make it work

May 25, 2018 Jack Montoucet

Louisiana anglers began their first day of the 2018 recreational red snapper season today under new rules: For the first time, the Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries will be managing fishing for the prized catch in both state and federal waters.[…]

A fisheries football

May 15, 2018 Jerald Horst

Red snapper management has been a fisheries football kicked back and forth between federal and state managers, snapper fishermen and environmental groups since 1990, when the first serious regulations were imposed on recreational fishermen.[…]

Keep it legal

May 15, 2018 Jerald Horst

Inshore fishermen making their first foray offshore for shallow water red snappers should be aware that simple Basic and Saltwater Recreational Fishing Licenses are not enough to bring red snapper back to the dock.[…]

The new Port Eads

May 15, 2018 Jerald Horst

For one thing, the modern and comfortable facility set in the middle of the world’s most fertile fishing grounds is not simply Port Eads. It’s now called the Port Eads Marina.[…]

Load the well with a day’s worth of live baits

May 15, 2018 David A. Brown

Everyone appreciates a packed livewell, but minding the details of kingfish bait collection can advance your trip’s success. […]

Sting the king

May 15, 2018 David A. Brown

Lean, mean biting machines, king mackerel pack a mouthful of sharp teeth that’ll make short work of monofilament or even fluorocarbon line. These fish are also notorious for snipping baits in half and missing single hook-rigs.[…]

Two big bluefin caught out of Venice

May 15, 2018 Patrick Bonin

They say it’s better to be lucky than good.

That was the case for four captains with Mexican Gulf Fishing Company in Venice on May 3 while they were wrapping up another successful yellowfin tuna trip about 35 miles south of Port Eads. […]