Captain Pauly’s Podcast with Captain Paul Miller

Captain Parker Rodrigue is a fisherman from Louisiana who has spent many seasons with the Mexican Gulf Fishing Company. He is now following the northern gulf blue marlin tournament circuit fishing aboard the ‘Chasing Tail’. He had some really cool stories about his time spent in Venice and some of the most thrilling and gut-wrenching tournament stories. Enjoy!

Had a podcast one day after fishing, had a few deckhands and new captains on, including Stephen Giacobbe, Joseph Morgan, Cameron Alda, Aston Moth and Alex Sewel. Kevin Beach also made an appearance at the end of the show! Enjoy!

Scott Cothran has been the VP of Freeman Boatworks for 10 years now. Captain Paul Miller was in Charleston, SC and decided to do a podcast with Scott after they toured the Freeman factory! Enjoy!

Craig Baller has been a great client and friend of Captain Paul Miller for nearly three years. He's fished lots of big name fishing destinations all over the world! Captain Paul decided to have him on the show to reflect on some of their times together. Enjoy!

Captain Ronnie Granier has been guiding in Venice since the 1980's. Captain Paul Miller sat down with Ronnie after a day of fishing and got to hear some really awesome stories, as well as Ronnie's take on conservation.

Jay O'Brian is a fishing guide out of Dauphin Island, Alabama. He is putting on a triple tail grand championship, so I invited him on the show to tell us all about it!

Teena and Naylan Patel stayed in Venice for nearly two months! They became very friendly with a lot of the captains so I decided to have them on the show. Tina has a degree in psychology with an emphasis in behavior change and learning as well as a masters in business administration. She has been studying street dogs in developing countries for nearly 20 years. Also, she founded Doglando in Orlando Florida in 2003, which is an enrichment facility for dogs. Uniquely enough, Tina believes in teaching her son Naylan through experiences rather than traditional schooling, and it just so happens that Naylan loves fishing, so most of their experiences have included fishing lately!

Joey Furlan is owner of Furlans Marine in Gautier MS. While we were at the Biloxi boat show, I had Joey on to talk about how he got into the boating business as well as the wide range of services they offer. Tune in!

Kevin Beach has been a charter captain in Venice for over 25 years and is owner of The Mexican Gulf Fishing Company. We sat down and had a podcast the night before his first day back of the 2022 fishing season. It sure was a fun one!

Dr Marcus Drymon is an ecologist, and his job as assistant extensions professor at Mississippi State University is to make applicable, science-based solutions usable to coastal marine anglers, both commercial and recreational. He also does a ton of research on sharks and the role they play in the environment. It was a fun podcast and very informative. Enjoy!

Captain Myles Colley is from Pensacola, Florida and has been in the leaderboards throughout the Gulf of Mexico’s biggest sport fishing tournaments. He tells a number of very entertaining stories including winning a Cobia tournament with a 126lber! Tune in, you won’t be disappointed!

Captain Colin Byrd has been a captain for The Mexican Gulf Fishing Company since 2014 and is a true master of his craft. Captain Paul Miller sits down with Colin to learn more about how he got started in fishing as well as some of his highlights. Enjoy!

Robbie Carter is the director of many fishing tournaments throughout the southeastern United States. On this episode, Captain Paul Miller sits down with Robbie to talk about the Louisiana Tuna Wahoo Classic!

Krissy Wejebe is the daughter of fishing legend and television of the Spanish Fly, Josè Wejebe. Captain Paul Miller got to sit down and get to know her while she was on a fishing trip to Venice. Talked a lot about her dad and past stories as well as the future of the Spanish Fly Foundation.

Captain Kyle Johnson is an inshore charter captain on the Mississippi Gulf Coast. He is also involved with The Speckled Truth podcast and a huge advocate for conservation. I had him on the podcast to get to know him more and to learn about what he has learned as an angler. This was a fun episode! Y’all enjoy!

Austin Powell is a long time dive partner as well as a great friend! He now fishes with the Intense sport fishing team that has a long track record for being on the leader boards throughout the Gulf of Mexico’s biggest fishing tournaments. I invited him on the show to talk about some of our times out on the water. We had a great time and I hope to have him on again some time!

Angelos Apeitos is the hatchery manager at the University of Southern Mississippi’s research laboratory, located in Ocean Springs, Mississippi. I was given the opportunity to have Angelos give me a tour of the facility and I got to see the massive 14lb speckled trout that they have raised at the research lab. Getting to know Angelos and learning from a guy like him was truly an awesome experience. Tune in to hear a very entertaining and educational conversation between a fisherman and a scholar!

Captain Walter Heathcock is an inshore fishing guide out of Venice, Louisiana. Walter is a Venice native and has seen this fishery as both a fishing guide and a commercial fisherman. We have a very in-depth fishing conversation! I hope y'all enjoy!

Captain Jordan Ellis has been an offshore fishing guide out of Venice, Louisiana for the last 11 years. Some of the things he has seen over the years are unimaginable, so Captain Paul Miller sat down with Jordan so he could tell us some of the stories that have happened over the years!

Donnie Jackson is a charter fisherman out of Venice, Louisiana, however, on this episode, I went to the Golden Nugget in Biloxi, Mississippi where Donnie had just won $283,000 and the Mississippi Gulf Coast Billfish Classic! I got the chance to interview him directly after the award ceremony that Sunday evening, and the story is pretty awesome! Give it a listen!

Tom 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, and we go way into red snapper politics. This was a fun episode! Everyone enjoy!

Captain Paul Miller sits down with the Biloxi Billfish Classic winners. Ever won $418,000 in a fishing tournament? The crew of "It Just Takes Time" tells us what that feels like! The story of how it all went down is awesome! Please tune in!

Mark is the host and owner of the Big Water Adventures television show, and travels from Alaska to Australia with the best guides in sports fishing! He has done multiple television shows with Captain Paul Miller and now joins him on an episode of Tuna Town Talks!

Jimmy has a true passion for fishing as well as life in South Louisiana! He is a sport fishing legend, and a pioneer within the charter fishing community in Venice, Louisiana. Enjoy!

Jeff Aguillard is a veterinarian from Louisiana and a life-long diver and water person. In this episode, we talk about the highs and lows of diving as well as some pretty awesome stories. Have you ever got separated from your boat in the Gulf of Mexico and had to float for hours? Jeff tells us what that feels like. Enjoy!

SPECIAL MESSAGE: Anyone that listens to this episode should know that Captain Paul had technical difficulties with his microphone , and his audio is very low. We apologize for that, however, this content is too incredible, so we HAD to make it available to our listeners! Captain Michael has been a life long fisherman in the Gulf of Mexico and is best known for his time on the First Choice, Reel Fire, and the Sharee. Tune in to hear the full story behind the state record blue marlin that he caught that held for over seven years.

Captain Joey Davis joins us on Tuna Town Talks for the second time to talk about his win of the Louisiana Tuna Wahoo Classic. It was an incredible story the way everything went down. Enjoy!

Captain Patrick Ivie of the Breath Easy and more than 22 years of experience in the Gulf of Mexico, sits down with host Paul Miller to tell some the coolest stories from his long fishing career. Ever caught a 800+lb. blue marlin in one of the biggest tournaments only to have it beat by two pounds? Captain Patrick tells us what that feels like!

Part owner in Venice Marina and life-long fisherman throughout Louisiana, Bill shares some incredible stories from his time fishing out of Venice! If you wanna hear from one of the legends, tune in!

Captain Eddie Burger has been a charter captain out of Venice Louisiana for the last 20 years. From giant makos to missing 100lb cobia with the gaff, he told us the highs and the lows. Give Captain Eddie Burger a listen, he’s got some good stories!

Captain Clayt has been captain of the Chasing Tail for the last 15 years and has been on the leader boards throughout the northern gulf marlin tournaments. He shares numerous stories, including his first day as Captain of the Chasing Tail, which was incredible!

Dr. Nyman is a wetlands and wildlife professor at LSU and has a PhD in oceanography. Captain Paul Miller had the great honor of taking him fishing and then sitting down to do a podcast to talk about a variety of topics that mainly focus on southeastern Louisiana’s wetlands. The ideas and opinions that Dr. Nyman expresses on the podcast are his alone and may not represent those of his employers.

Host Paul Miller sits down with Brandon Carter and Jon Carter to talk about the newly-proposed speckled trout limit. Brandon also shares some incredible stories about catching monster speckled trout!

On the fifth episode of Tuna Town Talks, Matt Miranda tells us about how he guided the largest yellowfin tuna ever caught in the Gulf of Mexico, as well as why it never made it into the record books!

If you've ever wanted to know who Kevin Beach is, this podcast does just that! Captain Kevin takes us way back to when he started fishing, and then finishes up with his story about his most memorable blue marlin! Enjoy!

In this episode of Tuna Town Talks, Captain Lee Alonzo tells us about his first daytime sword fishing experiences back in 1996, as well as lots of other very entertaining topics. Enjoy!

Mike Frenette was the first fishing guide ever in Venice, Louisiana. I sit down with him for over two hours and he tells me his journey through Venice. We also talk about his first time ever tuna fishing where he encountered tunas blowing up as far as he could see around more than 20 whale sharks!

On the first episode of Tuna Town Talks, host Paul Miller sits down with Captain Joey Davis to talk about how they both made it to Venice, Louisiana, and how Paul speared his first yellowfin tuna!