Five men were cited last week by the Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries for numerous violations involving possession of red snapper and greater amberjack in the Gulf of Mexico.[…]
Royal Dutch Shell’s largest tension leg platform left a construction dock near Corpus Christi, Texas on July 13 for a 425-mile journey to the Mars B Field in the Gulf of Mexico.[…]
Twenty-two-year-old UL Lafayette student Chris Bishop is majoring in industrial technology, but Saturday morning about 80 miles south of Cypremort Point he got a serious lesson in physics.[…]
Fishing seasons for greater amberjack and gray triggerfish reopen Aug. 1 in federal waters, the Gulf of Mexico Fishery Management Council announced today.[…]
In a special meeting in New Orleans on Wednesday, the Gulf of Mexico Fishery Management Council voted to increase the 2013 red snapper total quota to 11 million pounds.[…]
In the truck on the way from his Houma home to Cocodrie, where he docks his offshore boat, Capt. Tommy Pellegrin explained “Wonderland,” the day’s fishing destination.[…]
Capt. Tommy Pellegrin fishes different bottom relief features on top of the big Ewing Bank. He has multiple spots marked on his GPS screen, each of which he has found to be productive by previous trial and error.[…]
For most offshore-fishing Louisianans, the existence of hard rock banks off their coast is unknown except for the one commonly called the “Midnight Lump.”[…]
One of the things Tommy Pellegrin likes about fishing for his Cocodrie exotics, besides the variety, are the relatively liberal bag limits for the fish he catches.[…]
Pellegrin’s offshore bottom rig is very simple. His reels are spooled with either 60-pound-test monofilament or 65-pound-test braided line.[…]
Agents with the Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries cited a Kentwood couple today for alleged fishing violations in the Gulf of Mexico along the beach in Jefferson Parish.
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With the closure of the federal season on June 29, the STAR Tournament recently announced the red snapper division’s winner, according to Coastal Conservation Association Louisiana.
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The crew of Sportsman TV had to clear some room in their freezer after a recent roundup of reef fish in the Gulf of Mexico.[…]
Our boat was drifting on a cobalt-blue sea about 220 over a limestone-capped, coralline-encrusted “mountain.” We were out to catch what our skipper, Tommy Pellegrin, called “Cocodrie exotics” — a term he uses to describe the big variety of reef fish he catches from natural bottoms.[…]
Three Texas men were cited June 19 in connection with 42 red snapper found in the boat in which they were fishing, the Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries said.[…]
The federal red snapper season closes Friday (June 28), but that doesn’t mean snapper fishing ends off the Louisiana coast — it simply means the state’s weekends-only recreational snapper season resumes, the Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries announced.[…]