For many weeks this spring and summer, it seemed there had never been a worse time to try to fish the northern Gulf of Mexico off Louisiana.
Yet for a few skippers in the western half of the state, there hasn't been a better time.
By running to open areas — stretches not closed by NOAA to all fishing — anglers in the western part of the state were finding a wide-open bite from bull reds near shore, to snapper, grouper, cobia, jacks and more species around rigs and rocky areas, to yellowfin and other pelagics in blue water.
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