The Tuna Town Talks Fishing Podcast with Captain Paul Miller

Scott Avanzino is the founder of Paradise Outfitters in Venice, LA! Captain Paul Miller sits down with him to hear the full story! Enjoy!

Captain Sonny Schindler is the owner of Sure Thing Charters based out of Bay St. Louis MS. He sits down with Captain Paul Miller to talk about last season, as well as other fun stories!

Chris Mowad is the captain of the Best Trait. They recently caught the gulf record blue marlin. Captain Paul Miller had him on to tell the full story!

Tom Hilton is founder of Hilton's Fishing Charts, an offshore imagery website that tremendously helps fishermen locate the right fishing conditions. In this episode, Tom tells us how he got started in reef building and the new deployment of FADS in Texas! Fun episode give it a listen!

Chad Reinhardt is a charter captain for The Mexican Gulf Fishing Company. In this episode, he sits down with Captain Paul Miller to share how he got started!

Louis Thornton is a fifth generation fishing guide located in Venice, Louisiana. He has done almost every kind of commercial fishing that you can do out of Louisiana and has a ton of stories of him growing up in the marsh. Enjoy!

Rudy Hall has been a fisherman his entire life. He has an abundant amount of information about fishing off the coast of Louisiana. He also had a huge role in constructing oil rigs off the coast of Louisiana. Enjoy!

Beau Bourgeois and Shane Thibodaux of The Bourgeois Meat Market located in Thibodaux, Louisiana came on this episode of the podcast to talk a lot about how their business works and a lot of the meat products that they make. They’ve been in existence since 1891 and they are now the fourth generation to operate the meat market. Enjoy!

Hussein Zayed owns ZCB Boats in Ocean Springs MS, and has been building boats for many years now. Captain Paul Miller decided to have him on the show to get the back story. Enjoy!

Toby Berthelot is the owner of the Rising Son’s tournament fishing team, a team that has been on the leader boards along the northern gulf for many years now. While he and Captain Paul Miller were at the Biloxi Billfish Classic this year, they decided to do a podcast together to talk about some of the Rising Son’s wins! Enjoy!

Brandon and Jon Carter are part of the Reel Shot Guide Service. Captain Paul Miller decided to have them on the show to talk about the newly proposed limits on Louisiana’s inshore species. Enjoy!

Eric Gigli is a marine biologist for the Mississippi Department of Marine Resources. Captain Paul Miller assisted him in Satellite tagging triple tail this past fall, so they decided to do a podcast to talk about it. Enjoy!

Captain Jamie Taylor of Taylor’s Guide Service has been fishing Venice, Louisiana since the '90s. In this episode, he tells us a lot about the changes over the years and what should be done to further protect our marsh here in Louisiana. Jamie is an expert redfish and speckled trout angler, among other inshore species.

Harold Wilcox is a life-long fisherman and has been fishing in Venice, Louisiana since the 1990's. Host Captain Paul Miller does his best to pull out some of Harold's best stories, and they discuss his philosophy on conservation. Enjoy!

Captain Kevin Beach and Captain Jordan Ellis fished together for over four years before Jordan moved on and started running his own boat. Throughout that time they became best friends and they have enough stories to write a novel. In this episode Captain Paul Miller pulls out some really cool stories and conversation topics. However, Kevin and Jordan have unconventional ways of expressing their love for each other so listeners discretion is advised. Bad language was used in the making of this podcast. Enjoy!

Captian Joe Von Thron has worked on boats all over the continent and shares his experiences on his YouTube channel. We talk about a wide variety of stories, from trying to get triple digit yellowfin past the great whites at Guadalupe Island, catching 120 wahoo in a single day on the ridge offshore Baja, all the way to catching 900 pound bluefin a mile off the coast of North Carolina. In addition to his fishing ventures, Joe is well known for his YouTube channel “Joe VT Fishing” which has amassed over 50k subscribers.

Mark Primo Miller is true waterman, fisherman, scuba diver, spear fisherman, photographer, YouTuber, and reef builder. He is from the Mississippi Gulf Coast and has had a huge impact on the habitat surrounding the Mississippi Gulf Coast. Enjoy!

Taylor Olsen is a good friend of Paul Miller and also has 3 years experience commercial fishing for menhaden along the northern gulf coast. Paul has him on to talk about his time fishing. Enjoy!

Captain Sonny Schindler is an inshore fishing guide on the Mississippi Gulf Coast. Paul Miller sits down with Sonny to hear about how he got started in guiding and also about his time being an offshore fishing guide in Venice, LA. Enjoy!

Dr. Jim Franks has been marine biologist at the Mississippi Gulf Coast Research Lab for over 42 years, and is highly respected among the fisheries community! Captain Paul Miller had the honor of talking with Dr. Franks and asked some very interesting questions! Enjoy!