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This is an index to the back issues of Gulf Coast Fisherman magazine
where you will find great saltwater fishing articles about the Gulf Coast.
Not all issues have been listed but will in time. Our saltwater fishing
articles are loaded with plenty of "how to and "where to"
and are by some of the best writers on the Gulf Coast and a number of those
listed have active links for your reading pleasure.
Gulf Coast Fisherman is quarterly, therefore, articles are
generally directed to the seasons; if you will allow there are seasons on
the Gulf Coast. The months covered by each issue are as follows:
- Winter Issue - Jan-Feb-Mar
- Spring Issue- Apr-May-Jun
- Summer Issue - Jul-Aug-Sep
- Fall Issue - Oct-Nov-Dec
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- Fall 2008
- Summer 2008
- Spring 2008
- Winter 2008
- Fall 2007
- Summer 2007
- Spring 2007
- Winter 2007
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- Fall 2006
- Trout and Tides; Winds of Change - Fishing After
Katrina; A Cajun Sleigh Ride; Pro
Poling Tips; Rod & Reelin: A Mesh of Squid;
Equipment Notebook: Fuel Filters; Bay Naturalist: Things that Glow; Tackle
Time: Space Age Rods; The Bait Hook: Reds to Remember; Gulf Coast Closeup:
New Port Richey, FL - A Snowbird's Roost
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- Summer 2006
Reds and Tides;
Bulls on the Fringe; Espiritu Santo Bay; Summer Beach Bash; Rod & Reelin:
Dragonfly and Butterfly Jigs; Equipment Notebook: Sonar Installation; Bay
Naturalist: Learn the Heat Trick; Tackle Time: Your Friend the Wading Boot;
The Bait Hook: Waterfront Characters; Gulf Coast Closeup: Found - Paradise at the Chandeleurs
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- Spring 2006
- Intracoastal Trout; On the Flats; Cobes in the
Sound; Amberjack!; Equipment Notebook: Safety Equipment; Rod & Reelin:
Hook Sharpening Techniques; Bay Naturalist: Getting
to Know Seaweed; Tackle Time: Hook - One or Three?;
The Bait Hook: False Advertising; Gulf Coast Closeup: Indianola, Texas
- Good Fishing, Then and Now
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- Winter 2006
- Intracoastal Reds; East Galveston's
Big Trout Fiesta; Pro Tips for Winter Reds; Advanced Pier Techniques;
Equipment Notebook - Fuel System Maintenance; Rod & Reelin: Surgeon
Loops 101; The Bay Naturalist: Saltwater Escargot; Tackle Time: Spin vs.
Cast; The Bait Hook: Hindsight is Always 20/20; Gulf Coast Closeup: Fishing
Florida's Forgotten Coast (with Capt. Charles Wilson)
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- Fall 2005
Sheepshead in the Marsh; Playing the Blues; Spillway
Surprises; Matagorda's Tripletail; Schooling Reds; Rod & Reelin: Give
the Fish a Smile (Blade); Equipment Notebook: Boater Lube Essentials; Bay
Naturalist: Shifting Sands; Tackle Time: Get Down (to the fish); The Bait
Hook: Just Passing Through; Gulf Coast Closeup: Fishing With a Knight
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- Summer 2005
- Hideaway Tripletail,
Snapper Time, Outfitting a Carolina Shallow Water
Skiff, West Delta's Snapper, Equipment Notebook:
Boat Washdown Installation; Rod & Reelin: The Spinnerbait Jig; The
Bay Naturalist: Sashimi Grade; Tackle Time: Three's All You Need; The Bait
Hook: Watermelon, Baseball and Trout; Gulf Coast Closeup: Tampa Bay Guide
Capt. Chet Jennings.
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- Spring 2005
Flounder Secrets, Double Down on Dog
River, Port
O'Connor on the Fly, Speck-Ology, Equipment Notebook:
Installing Courtesy Lights; Rod & Reelin: AJ's & DJ's; The Bay
Naturalist: Managing the Pasture; Tackle Time: Flying
Flounder; The Bait Hook: The Well Dressed Fisherman;
Gulf Coast Closeup: Matagorda, Texas.
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- Winter 2005
- Equipment Notebook: Rod & Reelin: The Bay Naturalist: The Drum Line; Tackle Time: The Bait Hook: Gulf Coast Closeup:
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- Fall 2004
Cobe's on the Flats; Port Mansfield;
Autumn Reds; Fly Feeding Flounder; Equipment Notebook: Bay Naturalist:
Micro-Menaces; Rod & Reelin: Offshore: Hide that Sinker; Equipment
Notebook: Boat Stereo Installation; Tackle Time: Modern Classics of Fly
Fishing; The Bait Hook: Lady Luck and YL's; Gulf Coast Closeup: Lake Pontchartrain's
Grass Beds
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- Summer 2004
- Going Skinny with Flats Boats; Green Light Nights; Puddling the Bayous; Chunking for Snapper; Rod & Reelin': Make a King
Stinger; Equipment Notebook: Working with Polymer; Bay Naturalist: Shoreline
Salad Bar; Tackle Time: Supersized Reels; The Bait Hook: A Closer Look
at Dream Boats; Gulf Coast Closeup:
The Chandeluer Isles - A Favorite Destination
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- Spring 2004
- Kayaking for Reds & Trout; Jetty Jewels - Essential Jetty Tactics; Diverse Springtime
Action in Mississippi; Delta Snapper; Rod & Reelin': Make a Swim Disk;
Equipment Notebook: Wheel Bearing Basics; Bay Naturalist: Match the Hatch;
Tackle Time: Shake, Rattle and Roll; Bait Hook: Type Casting Fish; Gulf
Coast Closeup: Charlotte Harbor Grand Slam
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- Winter 2004
- Galveston Trout Tactics; Wading
Lake Calcasieu; Tampa Bay Specks; Song for a
Winter's Night; Rod n Reelin': Connecting
Mono to Spectra; Equipment Notebook: Make a Reel
Spooler; The Bay Naturalist: The Land Crab; Tackle Time: Essential Wadefishing
Accessories; The Bait Hook: True Lies; Gulf Coast Closeup: Steinhatchee,
FL - Along Florida's Nature Coast.
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- Fall 2003
- Rollover Fish Pass
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- Summer 2003
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- Spring 2003
- Paddling the Panhandle;
Topwater Time in Louisiana; Drifting
for Drum; Mississippi's Offshore Gems; Rod &
Reelin': The Belly-Up Rig; Bay Naturalist: Music for the Teeth; Equipment
Notebook: Six Quick Boating Tips; Tackle Time: Got Shrimp?; The Bait Hook:
Triple Tales; Gulf Coast Closeup: Matagorda Bay - East & West with
Capt. Bill Pustejovsky
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- Winter 2003
- Louisiana Marsh Madness; Industrial Strength
Trout; Barrier Island Bulls; Tampa Bay's Cold Weather Shark; Tackle Time:
Classic Saltwater Flies; Bay Naturalist: Oyster Time; Rod & Reelin':
Offshore Reels - Setting the Drag; Equipment Notebook: Trailer Tune-up;
Bait Hook: False Casts; Gulf Coast Closeup: Laguna Madre's new World Record
Trout
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- Fall 2002
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- Summer 2002
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- Spring 2002
- Cobia Craze; Springtime Specks; Custom Cast Nets;
Try a Fly; Tackle Time: Walkin' the Dog; The Bay Naturalist: The Hermit
and the Fiddler; Rod & Reelin': Rigging for Cobia; Equipment Notebook;
Boater's Essential Toolkit; The Bait Hook: Far Away Places; Gulf Coast
Closeup: Lake Calcasieu & Turner's Bay
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- Winter 2002
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- Fall 2001
- The Delta's Deepwater Flounder; Saddle Blanket
Strategy; Biloxi Marsh Bonanza; Tackle Time: Bass Tactics on Saltwater;
The Bay Naturalist: The "Other" Crab; Rod & Reelin': Rigging
for Deep Water; Equipment Notebook: Simple Motor Maintenance; The Bait
Hook: Warden Woes; Gulf Coast Closeup: Pass Christian, MS - Gateway to
Action
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- Summer 2001
- Ultimate Bay Stealth; Trophy Snapper; Trip...Trip...Tripletail;
Tackle Time: Hot Rods; The Bay Naturalist: Getting to Know the Players;
Rod & Reelin': Camo Rigging For Kings; Equipment Notebook: Build a
Casting Console; The Bait Hook: Close Encounters; Gulf Coast Closeup: Mexico
Beach, Florida - From Reefs to Riches
Spring 2001
- Winter 2001
- Off-Season Chandeleurs; High Powered Cobia; Treasure of the Laguna
Madre; Fishing & Aging; Tackle Time: Anti-Backlash - Does it Work?;
Offshore Log: Snapping at Shrimpers; Rod & Reelin': Snap-On/Off Sinkers;
Equipment Notebook: Build a Rod Carrying Case; Gulf Coast Closeup: The
Coastal Bend's Shamrock Cove
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- Fall 2000
- Galveston's East Bay; Venice's Suburban Specks; Mobile's Fabulous Fall
Flats; Inside the Inlets; Redfish on Top; Tackle Time: The Corpus Pet;
Offshore Log: End of an Era; Rod & Reelin': Rigging Soft Baits; Equipment
Notebook: Trailer Light Maintenance; Gulf Coast Closeup: Corpus Christi's
Oso Bay
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- Summer 2000
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- Spring 2000
- Louisiana's Early Cobia; Talking Trout;
Galvestons' Spring Flounder; Plastic Revolution; Hybrid Lures; Tackle Time: Common
Sense Safety; Offshore Log: Return of the Red Snapper; Cook's Guide: Tolerable
Trout; Equipment Notebook: Installing a Rod Holder; Gulf
Coast Closeup: Apalachicola, Florida - The Land Beyond.
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- Winter 2000
- Snooping for Snook; Pipeline
Specks; Towpwater Bonanza; East Bay Potpourri, The Reel Story; Tackle
Time: Float Rigging; Offshore Log: Dealing for Diesels;
Equpment Notebook: Refinishing Teak; Bait Hook: Remembering
Roger; Cook's Guide: Flatfish Classics; Palacios,
Texas - The City by the Sea.
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- Fall 1999
- Flounder Attack!;
Louisiana's Fall Kings;
Mansfield Flats; Going Long for
Specks; Skinny Water Reds; Tackle Time: Takin'
Care of Business; Offshore Log: Fall of (NO) Snapper Fishing; Cook's Guide:
Simply Soup; Equipment Notebook: Build Your Own Baitwell; Bait Hook: Immortality; Gulf Coast
Closeup: The Norm Bait
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- Summer 1999
- Sabine's Super Specks; Coastal
Shark; Love Those Trashy Tripletail;
Fish Eye View; Choosing a Tackle Box;
Offshore Log: Fishery (Mis) Management; Cook's Guide: Louisiana Favorites; Equipment Notebook:
Rewiring Your Boat; Bait Hook: Fishing for Strippers...; Gulf
Coat Closeup: Bekki Ludlum, Alabama's Spanish Mackerel Queen
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- Spring 1999
- Coastal Jetties, Rig Tactics - Other Ways &
Means, Fish the Wind, Gulf Fishing Light, Tackle Time: Your Leader,
Offshore Log: The Year in Review, Cook's Guide: Classics
Considered, Equipment Notebook: Communication Gear, Closeup:
Yankeetown, Florida.
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- Winter 1999
- Sabine Reds, Deep and Shallow, Topwater Tactics (Trinity Bay),
Inshore Rigs, Tackle Time: Dance a Jig, Offshore Log: Snapper Snafu, Cook's
Guide: Saltwater Favorites, Equipment Notebook: Basics of Shrimping,
- Gulf Coast Closeup: Morgan City, Louisiana -
Take a trip to Bayou Country!
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- Fall 1998
- Pro Jetty Tactics for More Reds &
Trout, Mississippi's Sundown Specks, Calcasieu River Ship Channel,
Fickle Flounder, Tackle Time: Sinkers, Offshore Log:
Repowering Blues, Cook's Guide: Recipes for the
Fall, Gulf Coast Closeup: Florida's Ten Thousand Islands, Equipment
Notebook: Survival Guide
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- Summer 1998
- The King & You; Beat the Heat; Fly
Rodding the Flats; Old Salts; Tackle Time:
Hooks 101; Offshore Log - Circle Hooks; Cooks Guide: State's Pride; Gulf
Coast Closeup: Bubby's Way; Equipment Notebook: How
to Make a Crab Trap
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- Spring 1998
- Fantastic Fourchon; South Bay; Chandleur
Spring; Choosing a Flats Boat; Tackle
Time: Handling Shrimp; Offshore Log: Gulf Snapper
Update; Cook's Guide: Italiano Seafood; Gulf Coast
Closeup: Florida's Forgotten Coast; Equipment
Notebook: Make a Boat Cover; Bait Hook: The Calling
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- Winter 1998
- Super Snapper; Louisiana's Winter Wahoo, Galveston's San Luis Pass;
Tampa Bay Comeback; Tackle Time: Don't Dare the Glare; Offshore Log: Pro
Tips on Snapper; Cook's Guide; Smoking & Pickling; Gulf Coast Closeup: Seadrift Texas; Equipment Notebook: The Handy Tilt;
Baithook: Nautical Literacy
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- Fall 1997
- Matagorda Bays (East & West); Melee in the Marsh (Delta Reds); Galveston Surf; Texas
Coastal Bend; Gulf Coast Closeup: Orange Beach, Offshore
Log: Pulling the Triggers; Cook's Guide: Hot Fish!
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- Summer 1997
- Dealing With Dolphin, POC's Pringle Lake;
Downrigger Kings; Florida Nighttime Tarpon; Gulf Coast Closeup: Calcasieu Guide Jeff Poe- (La. Flyfishing Record Trout);
Offshore Log: Offshore Nights; Cook's Guide: International Recipes; Tackle
Time; Vision at Sea
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- Spring 1997
- Dixie's April Cobia; Galveton East Bay; Sabines Spring Flatfish; The
Sound of Specks; Tackle Time: Fish Saving tool; Offshore Log: The "Endangered"
Snapper; Cook's Guide: Go Crabs! Equipment Notebook: Essential Tools
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- Winter 1997
- The Snapper Zone; Trophy Trout Time; Guidance
From Above; Grouper/Amberjack; Gulf Coast Closeup: Tampa Bay's Skyway Piers;
Offshore Log: The Bertram 31; Cook's
Guide: Oyster's to Delight; Rescuing an Old Outboard
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- Fall 1996
- Topwaters in the Laguna Madre; Southwest Pass (reds & kings); Boating
Safely; Fishing Discovery (Louisiana floating lodge); Boat Safely; Tackle
Time: Stick Baits; Closeup: Galveston Guides Lloyd
and Cookie Pepper ; Currents: The Elements of
Fishing; Offshore Log: Catamarans; Cook's Guide:
Baked Seafood; Equipment Repairs: If It Won't Start
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- Summer 1996
- Go Light; Louisiana's Black Bay; For the Record - (Baffin Bay); Hot
Water Trout; Tackle Time: Rigging Light w. Split Shot; Gulf Coast Closeup:
Port O'Connor, TX; Offshore Log: Power Trips; Cook's Guide: German Style
Seafood; Currents: The Year of the Trout
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- Spring 1996
- Pass a Loutre; Move It!; San Luis Pass, Big Trout Hangout; Combating
Motion Sickness; Offshore Log: Basics of Chumming; Closeup: Boca Raton,
Florida; Cook's Guide: Flat Fish & Sauces - Part
II; Mysteries Unsolved
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- Winter 1996
- Redfish Rules; Boat Basin Basics; Galveston Reds; Offshore Log: The
Right Bait; Tackle Time: Make Your Own Rattling Worms;
Cook' Guide: Fabulous Flounder; Bait Hook: Fishing Builds Character; Current Events: Fishing with the Tides
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- Fall 1995
- Sabine Fall Flounder; Cook's
Guide: Foreign Fish; Gulf Coast Closeup: Rockport,
Texas
Summer 1995
Spring 1995
- Winter 1995
- Galveston's Cold Water Trout; Fishing
After Dark; Live Bait Lessons; Cook's Guide:
Cooking Light; Closeup: Steinhatchee, Florida's Big Bend; Fuel Filters
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- Fall 1994
- Showtime in the North Gulf; The Waiting Game; Fish Books; Surf's Red
(Louisiana); Cook's Guide: Herbs; Closeup: Rockport/
Port Aransas; Tackle Time: Spoon Feeding Saltwater
Fish
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- Summer 1993
- South Pass Tarpon; Fishing Weather; Yahoo! for Wahoo; Bay Rigs; Current
Events: Research; Cook's Guide: BBQ'd fish; Closeup: Charter Capt. Hal
McQueen; Bait Hook: Cooks Fish Too! Tackle Time: The Menace of Mono
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- Winter 1993
- Sabine Lake; Run For the Drum; Wet Your Pants (wadefishing); Current
Events: The Role of Tidal Currents in Fishing;
Closeup: Venice, Louisiana; Cook's Guide: Seafood
Sausage; Trip Spoilers
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- Spring 1990
- Baffin Bay; Island Hopping Mississippi Style; Steve Shook talks about
kingfishing; The Cobia are Coming!; Closeup: Port O'Connor, TX; Seaside
Camping; Cook's Guide: Four Kinds of Fish; Equipment Notebook: Making a
Chugger
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- Summer 1989
- Texas Tarpon, South Padre Wading, Getting More Fish in the Boat; Drum
& Noodles ( noodles are a distinct impression drum make on the bottom);
Lake Pontchartrain's Trestles; Gulf Coast Closeup: Tampa, FL; Cook's Guide:
Cool Cooking; Bait Hook: "When You Gotta Go"
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- Spring 1987
- Boca Grande Tarpon; Picture's Worth a Thousand Words; Passes Boom Upper
Coast Fishing; Perdido - Pensacola Bay; Gulf Coast Closeup: Pass Christian;
Equipment Notebook: The Little Things
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- Winter 1987
- Galveston Bay; Grouper Madness; Port Aransas' California Hole; Winter
Drive To Fishing in Louisiana; Dwindling Wetlands
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- Spring 1986
- Dirty Water Tricks; Flyfishing Saltwater; Galveston Bay Complex - Part
II; Party Boat! Blue Water off Sabine Pass; Freighter
Kings; Cook's Guide: Seafood for a Healthy Heart
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- Fall 1984
- Panama City's Big Game; Reds on Port Mansfield Flats; Biloxi's Bountiful
Back Bays; Freeport's Bluewater Bonanza;
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- Spring 1984
- Grunt and Groan Fishing; It May be a Record; Underwater Rock Formations;
Landlocked Saltwater Fishermen; Louisiana Potpourri, Coastal Closeups
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- Winter 1984
- Mississippi Drum, Sidecast Reels, Tides v. Forecast; Lures that Bridge
the Gap; Cook's Guide: Inspirations from Louisiana
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- Fall 1983
- A Bay For All Seasons (Redfish Bay -Rockport, TX); Louisiana Red; Galveston Bay Part II - Trinity Bay; The Last Texas
Fishing Frontier (Port Mansfield); Dolphin; Cook's Guide: Scallops.
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- Winter 1981
- Build a Better Fishing Rod (Part 1); Drum Run; Texas Redfish get a
Break; Taxidermy Tips, Cook's Guide: Bounty of the Sea; Danger Lurks on
the Winter Surf
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