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Inshore
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Jul 9, 2026
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8 min read
The fish nobody throws at just went 37 pounds.
We have spent all summer telling you about tripletail, the sleeper of the Venice passes. On July 1 an angler boated a potential state No. 4 out here on live shrimp and a cork. Plus how the five-fish snapper weekend went, and the tide that just flipped back on.
Inshore
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Jul 2, 2026
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8 min read
Five snapper for the Fourth
The state bumped the limit to five fish a person Thursday through Sunday for America's 250th, the seas are flat every day, and the reefs are wide open. Here's the holiday read, plus the one thing to change about your box before you go.
Inshore
+8
Jun 25, 2026
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8 min read
The high river built the grass. The grass built the reds.
Two Venice captains explain why the marsh is loaded right now, plus flat seas every day this weekend and a Full Moon tide stacking up behind it. After a month of wind, there's finally nothing to wait on.
Inshore
+9
May 28, 2026
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6 min read
Five fish on Memorial Day. Four again on Tuesday
Bosworth bumped the snapper limit for the long weekend. Cajun Canyons starts in five hours. Full Moon Sunday.
Inshore
+10
May 21, 2026
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5 min read
Louisiana's first 2026 red snapper number: 0.9 percent
8,307 pounds in three days. Plus a neap-tide weekend and the menhaden package finally cleared.