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Redfish, Texas to Florida
Where redfish live across the Gulf, how the fishery changes from the Texas flats to the Louisiana marsh, and what it means...
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What to wear fishing on the Gulf Coast
A practical layer-by-layer for Gulf Coast heat, glare and humidity, from a summer morning in the marsh to a winter front.Start with...
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What UPF 50+ actually means
UPF 50+ blocks about 98 percent of UV. What the rating measures, why it is not SPF, and why some shirts lose...
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Texas to Key West, how the gear changes along the coast
The Gulf runs roughly a thousand miles from the Lower Laguna Madre to Key West, and it does not fish like one...
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The Texas wind, and why a hood beats a ball cap
The wind is the one constant on the Texas coast. A southeast fifteen can run for a fortnight without a break from...
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Full coverage in the Keys, and why guides wear it
Show up in Islamorada in a t-shirt and you will be the only one. Keys guides fish in hoods, long sleeves and...
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Tarpon season at Boca Grande, dressed for the fight
Tarpon fishing is mostly waiting, and then it is not. From May into July the pass at Boca Grande fills up with...
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Why you burn faster in Destin
People get burned on the Panhandle on days that did not feel especially hot. Pensacola to Apalachicola has the whitest sand and...
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One outfit, inshore and offshore, on Mobile Bay
This stretch of coast fishes two completely different ways in one day. Specks and reds in the Mississippi Sound or Mobile Bay...
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Reading the tide before you launch
The tide chart tells you more about the next four hours of fishing than the weather app does. On the Gulf Coast...
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Sun protection that survives a full day
Why sunscreen alone fails on the water, what reflected UV does, and how to cover the spots anglers actually burn.Water throws UV...
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A fall bull red trip to Venice, and what to pack
Fall in the Louisiana marsh is the trip people save up for. Bull reds in the delta out of Venice, Hopedale or...
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Why the Lower Laguna eats gear
The Lower Laguna Madre is one of a handful of hypersaline lagoons on earth. It is saltier than the Gulf outside it,...
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Sight casting the Coastal Bend, and beating the glare
The Coastal Bend is the stretch where you stop covering water and start hunting fish. Aransas, Copano and Corpus Christi Bays run...
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Fishing Galveston Bay in August, and surviving it
An August morning on Galveston Bay is flat and pleasant at six and genuinely punishing by nine. The temperature is not what...
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Marsh days, what to wear when it gets messy
The marsh is the most demanding water on this coast for clothing. Not because it is extreme, but because it is relentless:...
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Making performance fabric last a season
Performance fabric fails for boring reasons. Salt left in the fibres, a hot dryer, and fabric softener, in roughly that order. All...
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Rope hats, and why anglers keep buying them
The rope is not decoration. It started as a way to stiffen the front edge of a brim on a hat that...
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Catfish after dark, a Texas primer
Catfish do not become different animals at night, they just stop being careful. The same fish that sat in twenty feet of...
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Tarpon and snook
Where the southern Gulf fisheries run, from Boca Grande to the Keys, and why long fights change what you want to be wearing.A fishery with a hard geographyTarpon and snook are the southern half...
SpeciesRedfish, Texas to Florida
Where redfish live across the Gulf, how the fishery changes from the Texas flats to the Louisiana marsh, and what it means for your gear.The one fish the whole coast sharesRedfish are the constant...
Getting dressedWhat to wear fishing on the Gulf Coast
A practical layer-by-layer for Gulf Coast heat, glare and humidity, from a summer morning in the marsh to a winter front.Start with a hooded long sleeve, even in AugustThe instinct is to wear less...
Sun protectionWhat UPF 50+ actually means
UPF 50+ blocks about 98 percent of UV. What the rating measures, why it is not SPF, and why some shirts lose it in the wash.UPF is a fabric rating, not a sunscreen ratingSPF...
Sun protectionSun protection that survives a full day
Why sunscreen alone fails on the water, what reflected UV does, and how to cover the spots anglers actually burn.Water throws UV back at youOpen water reflects a meaningful share of ultraviolet light straight...