Joe Richard has fished the Gulf since 1967, starting out of Port Arthur, but his adventures have taken him up and down the entire coast. He was the editor of Tide magazine for eight years, and later Florida Sportsman's book and assistant magazine editor. He began guiding out of Port O'Connor in 1994. His specialty is big kingfish, and his latest book is The Kingfish Bible, New Revelations, due for publication in 2013.
Texas is blessed with a fairly even spread of jettied passes, that allow us to launch in sheltered waters and...
Lots of kingfish are caught off the Texas coast every summer, but there are also what I call deceiver fish...
Long-time Gulf anglers have heard the word Ling! screamed more than a few times over the years, when these fish...
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I have sometimes commented on fishing offshore this time of year at the old "car body" reef off Galveston, the...
There is a dimension offshore beyond that which is known to man. It is a dimension of shadows and darkness,...
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September might not seem like a prime month for catching ling offshore, but we've often had great luck with these...