01/07/2026
My first photo contribution to Texas Highways Magazine- what an honor and a delight to see my work in print!
For decades, dropping a line below a deep-sea oil rig has proven a bucket-list, high-octane fishing challenge. But now the rigs are disappearing from the Texas Gulf.
Since writer Paul Greenberg was a teen, he dreamed of fishing off an oil rig. During multiple trips to the Gulf to cover the aftermath of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in 2010 for his book "American Catch," he’d almost gotten out to the rigs only to be deferred by wind and circumstance.
For the recent issue of Texas Highways, Greenberg finally made it happen.
But four decades after first hearing about rig fishing, things have changed profoundly in the Gulf. Some species have been overfished, regulations have turned things on their heads for others, and most recently "the rigs themselves are being ripped out, toppled over, or blown up," he writes.
Read more about Greenberg's adventure here: https://texashighways.com/travel/texas-deep-sea-oil-rig-fishing
