Inshore Fishing
Live-bait trout-fishing tips
“If I don’t have live bait, I go home,” Tony Bruce said. “I’ve fished with Ed Sexton, who is excellent with plastic, and rather than fish, I just watched him fish.[…]
Month: June 2016
Bass Fishing
Atchafalaya Basin bass-fishing calendar
Largemouth bass fishing is cyclic. Water temperatures, and with them oxygen levels, vary by season.[…]
Bass Fishing
The making of two Atchafalaya Basin bass-fishing experts
Kevin Diez is an old friend.
I first met him fishing. We were both belly deep in the water at Elmer’s Island, clobbering speckled trout and white trout.[…]
Bass Fishing
What about the black blotches on bass?
With increasing regularity in recent years, fishermen have caught largemouth bass with black blotches on their heads, bodies or fins.[…]
Offshore Fishing
How to fish for snapper without oil rigs
It felt weird — catching snappers in the wide open.
No rig. Nothing to mark the spot. Nothing but open water.[…]
Sidebars
How to make a butterfly bait for snapper
Butterfly baits are highly effective for targeting large bottom fish such as groupers and large red snappers. Here are the steps to cut your own.[…]
Offshore Fishing
Frekey’s snapper gear
Flipping bait to mangrove snappers just beneath the water’s surface is an entirely different game than dredging their red snapper cousins up from the deep.[…]
Inshore Fishing
Bruce finally scores STAR win
They say good things happen to nice guys.
On July 24, 2015, forty-nine days after our fishing trip — while fishing with trophy trout greats Ed Sexton and Dudley Vandenborre in the Faux Pas Lodge Invitational Rodeo — Tony Bruce finally caught his STAR-winning speckled trout.[…]
Offshore Fishing
Why fish offshore of Louisiana?
Over a ritual pretrip supper with relatives at Leeville Seafood Restaurant in Leeville, Ricky Ruffin talked about his love affair with Louisiana fishing and cooking.[…]
Inshore Fishing
Still plenty trout, redfish inside during June
For most anglers, Shell Beach is a pretty good hike. If you make the run, you want to be able to catch fish in different wind scenarios. […]
Inshore Fishing
Campo’s Marina has best live shrimp, guide says
Capt. Mark Munson has a successful charter fishing operation out of Shell Beach. And every morning he has a charter, Munson idles his boat down to a marina to get live shrimp.[…]
Inshore Fishing
The No. 1 way to hook live shrimp
Capt. Mark Munson doesn’t even carry plastics on his boat. […]
Freshwater Fishing
How you can learn crappie-fishing tactics online
Remember when fishing was just for fun? When you loved to hang out with other fishermen and swap baits and stories?[…]
Inshore Fishing
Top trout fishing equipment
Besides Craig Hunt, who used level wind bass tackle, all three Bruce men used medium-heavy spinning tackle for their live bait fishing.[…]
Inshore Fishing
Best trophy trout fishing tips
Fishing offshore rigs for speckled trout is different than what most anglers experience fishing in marshes, lakes and bays.[…]
Bass Fishing
The best post-spawn tackle
For flipping and punching presentations, tournament pro Nick LeBrun stresses the importance of rod-and-reel setup.[…]