Capt. Lane Zimmer’s text message was crystal clear.
“… left them biting yesterday,” the message read.
I wasn’t sure what happened between yesterday and this morning, but Lane’s spot that was so productive just 24 hours before only gave up two trout.
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It’s like girls night out for new mama bass and dads are watching the kids. That’s basically the deal with a popular spring pattern we know as “fry guarders” — male bass round up recently hatched babies (fry) and keep constant watch for a host of predators from bluegill, to crappie to other bass.[…]
The weather looked lousy as Creighton Ward, part owner and first captain of Southern Exposure Inland Fishing Charters, launched his boat from an obscure launch just north of the old Buras Auditorium into the Mississippi River. […]
When the trout aren’t cooperating, you might just need on stay on the big motor and cover more water.[…]
May signals the beginning of the Toledo Bend slab-a-thon celebration.[…]
More than 10 years ago, when I used to live in West Monroe, my local tournament partner Sid Havard and I used to look forward to May every year.[…]
If you can fish it, they will come.
No matter how long or rough the road, how far back off the beaten path or how tough the waters may be to navigate, the determination of fishermen is a perfect example of the old American phrase, “come Hell or high water.”[…]
According to Larry Frey, taking a page from your wintertime playbook can pay big dividends for speckled trout fishermen in May.[…]
The smoky haze billowing from the Atchafalaya River’s surface was the only motion on an otherwise still morning in early April.[…]
It’s spring, and what Forrest Green calls the “mother lode” of speckled trout is here.
And it won’t last forever.[…]
As many people in the older generation are quick to point out, kids these days are lazy.[…]
When I was 10 years old, my dad, brother and I were hanging out in the Bogue Chitto River behind our house one day.[…]
I stood in the stern of Capt. Will Wall’s offshore charter boat, peering at the white buildings of Port Eads Marina etched against the early morning’s battery charged blue sky.[…]
Being a police officer today is a pretty stressful profession. What they see, what they deal with — it’s a lot.[…]
It’s a big lake and it’s chock full of bass, but Toledo Bend is no gimme — even with its well-merited title of the nation’s top lake two years running.[…]
I grew up in St. Bernard Parish, and often launched my flatboat at the old Depope boat launch in Violet and fished the ancient tower we simply called, “The Castle” — or as it was sometimes referred to, the “Martello Castle.”[…]