As for us, we were going blue marlin fishing. In ­mid-October. In Venice, Louisiana. The timing wasn’t ­really by choice. Rene Cross, ­longtime owner of Cypress Cove Marina, had reached out in ...

Local anglers without boats often feel like their fishing friends on social media exist to torture them, posting endless pictures of speckled trout and redfish pulled over their gunwales.

Fishing for menhaden southwest of Venice, Louisiana in the Gulf of Mexico on Wednesday, May 4, 2022. (Photo by Chris Granger | The Times-Picayune | The New Orleans Advocate) Those involved in the ...