Through July 8, recreational offshore anglers have harvested just over 407,000 pounds of red snapper, according to the LA Creel program with the Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries.[…]
The Louisiana Wildlife and Fisheries Commission on Tuesday voted to move to a weekends-only recreational red snapper season, starting on Friday, July 13.[…]
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.[…]
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.[…]
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.[…]
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.[…]
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.[…]
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 Louisiana Wildlife and Fisheries Commission on Thursday set the recreational red snapper season in both federal and state waters to kick off on Friday, May 25, according to a news release from the Department of Wildlife and Fisheries.[…]
Without oil platforms or reefs, wrecks and rock piles on the bottom, see how this Venice guide locates red snapper in open water.[…]
After last summer’s extended federal season, harvest numbers Gulf-wide indicate red snapper were overfished by 212 percent — even though Louisiana anglers actually brought less fish to the docks than the state’s historical quota.[…]
The extended federal red snapper season that closed on Labor Day ended with more than 100,000 pounds still on the table before Louisiana’s self-imposed snapper quota is reached — leaving the potential of a fall state season a distinct possibility.[…]
Earlier this summer, it looked pretty bleak. Then it looked possible. Then it didn’t. Finally, the numbers started looking pretty good. […]
As Hurricane Harvey heads toward Texas — with the possibility of impacting Louisiana next week — probably not very many people are planning offshore trips this weekend to target red snapper.[…]
If you don’t want any of the “run-of-the-mill” 10-pounders swimming about, here’s how you target the really big boss snapper on a rig?[…]
With up to 13 days remaining for Gulf of Mexico anglers to catch red snapper, it’s starting to look more and more likely the extended federal season will make it all the way to its official closing on Labor Day.[…]