No matter where you target specks, it’s hard to beat a paddletail soft-plastic, and the Sea Shad emits a strong vibration that these fish can’t resist. The One Knocker is a modern cousin of the ...

Fishing regulations intended to hasten the recovery of spotted seatrout on Texas’ middle and lower coasts after a significant fish kill ended last night. Today, the reduced bag and altered slot limits ...

Capt. Theophile Bourgeois is a big fan of shrimp. He especially likes to roll them in Louisiana Fish Fry, drop them in hot grease and dump them on french bread slathered with mayonnaise. But for ...

Above is a common spotted sea trout, sometimes called a speckled sea trout; “speck” for short. Feisty, crafty, and tasty, Gulf Coast anglers love them. In Texas, speck are closed to commercial fishing ...

The Barataria Basin has seen an off speckled-trout summer because of high west winds, but now that winds have changed direction, the fish are moving back up the basin, to the delight of Capts. James ...

There has been a good run of big kingfish off the Space Coast this week. Sometimes they will skyrocket on baits, trolled or simply free jumping, resembling a SpaceX flight taking launch. Inshore, the ...

The Texas Parks and Wildlife Commission approved changes to spotted seatrout regulations Thursday at a meeting at the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department headquarters in Austin. The daily bag limit ...

Dr. Christian Walker wasn't targeting trophy trout when he caught this Caillou Bay monster that would net him a boat in the Coastal Conservation Association STAR tournament. (Christian Walker) Dr.