CORPUS CHRISTI, TX – The National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) continued its bizarre history of biased management regarding Gulf amberjack when it announced this week that the recreational season for the popular offshore species will close on October 24 due to the recreational sector overfishing its quota.[…]
Although the summer days are loosely labeled as lazy here in LouisianAlthough the summer days are loosely labeled as lazy here in Louisiana, November is actually the best month to be a lazy bass angler at Lake D’Arbonne.a, November is actually the best month to be a lazy bass angler at Lake D’Arbonne.[…]
Lake Salvador is a huge body of water located due south of New Orleans and southeast of the Salvador Wildlife Management Area in St. Charles Parish.[…]
The Mississippi River delta and surrounding offshore waters are without a doubt some of the richest fishing grounds in the world. There is no other place on the face of the planet where an angler can target largemouth bass and blue marlin in the same day, no other place where limits of 20-pound red snapper and 10-pound mangrove snapper are not uncommon, no other place where you can catch 100+-pound yellowfin year-round on a day trip.[…]
If you’re deepfreeze is anything like my family’s, it takes you a while to dig through all the leftovers on top just to get to the good stuff underneath.[…]
Although the calendar shows that the trout and redfish should have invaded the Mississippi River at Venice, that hasn’t exactly been the case according to Captain Owen Langridge with Big O Charters (225-978-1136).[…]
One of the great things about Southeast Louisiana is that you don’t have to drive very far to get to some of the best fishing holes in the world.[…]
Anybody fishing with the king, Captain Frank Moore (504-887-4960) lately has found that Biloxi Marsh, Stump Lagoon and Muscle Bay are absolutely full of redfish and trout right now.[…]
Well, actually this tasty little fish is not really a mullet, but you would never believe it if you listened to South Louisianans.[…]
The start of this month usually finds me feeling tropically depressed. Another year, another storm that has ravaged one of my coastal fishing spots.[…]
I spend a lot of time on the road tournament fishing, so when I’m home, I fish areas close to home like Delacroix and Venice.[…]
Kayaks have long provided peaceful transportation, free of noise and exhaust fumes, on freshwater lakes and rivers and saltwater bays and estuaries for bird watching, fishing and exploring.[…]
I have been in the boat business for many years. I know and appreciate the technological advances that have occurred in that time, but I do occasionally find myself reminiscing about the simple good-old days.[…]
Dear Capt. Paul,
I was wondering if you could help me out with the coordinates to the sunken barge near Freemason Island that is part of the Chandeleur Island chain.[…]
I shuddered when my cell phone rang and I saw the name on the screen. Ken Sherman had told me we wouldn’t head out until 5:15 a.m., an obscenely late hour for the die-hard tournament angler.[…]
The one thing that has kept me standing at the dock more often than not when it comes to catching tuna is that they are offshore.[…]