Columns
The Seafood Bible: In-laws found a kinship in the kitchen
Collette Weaver and Ron Harris are in-laws and both love to cook. Here are their recipes for Greek shrimp salad and trout meuniére.[…]
Inshore Fishing
Inshore Fishing
Delcambre men arrested for alleged crab thefts
Two Delcambre men were arrested earlier this month and booked into the Iberia Parish Jail in separate cases for alleged crabbing violations, according to the Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries.[…]
Inshore Fishing
When will Lake Pontchartrain’s ‘World Series Trout Run’ begin?
Game One of the 2015 World Series is set for next Tuesday, Oct. 27 — but don’t expect this year’s fabled “World Series Trout Run” on Lake Pontchartrain to perfectly coincide with baseball’s Fall Classic.[…]
Inshore Fishing
New Orleans man dies in Daylight Bay boating accident
A 66-year-old New Orleans man died Tuesday during a fishing trip in Daylight Bay after falling into the water while attempting to tie on to the backside of a barge to get out of the wind, according to the Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries.[…]
Columns
Kayaking ‘noobs’ – Beginners to the sport have a lot to learn
Everybody has to start somewhere. When it comes to kayak fishing, a quick poll shows participants in the sport come from all skill and experience levels.[…]
Inshore Fishing
Buck found swimming a half mile off North Carolina coast
While venturing to one of the nearshore wrecks off the North Carolina coast yesterday, Capt. Dennis Barbour of Island Tackle & Hardware thought the day was starting out in pretty normal fashion.[…]
Inshore Fishing
Lake Pontchartrain trout-fishing tools
Greg Schlumbrecht likens bottom-fishing soft plastics on the Causeway to bass fishin[…]
Inshore Fishing
More Barataria Bay trout-fishing hotspots
LaRocca’s Camp isn’t the only tried-and-true Barataria Bay trout mecca.[…]
Inshore Fishing
Pointe-aux-Chenes WMA flounder hotspots
Although the weir on Island Drive is one of his main fall-back options, Ty Hibbs actually prefers fishing a few of the other Pointe-aux-Chenes Wildlife Management Area weirs and bayous because they — in his estimation — actually offer a little bit better fishing.[…]
Inshore Fishing
Pinpoint flounder by finding bluff banks
As Ty Hibbs and I ventured away from the Island Road weir and headed back to the weir on the western levee of the impoundment, he kept pointing out spots he thought would hold flounder.[…]
Flounder
How to debone a flounder
Completely removing the backbone of an odd-shaped fish like a flounder sounds like an impossible task, but Vern Becnel has mastered it. Try these steps.[…]
Sidebars
Capt. Rykert Toledano’s tips for night specks
While Away Charters’ Rykert Toledano Jr. loves to fish for speckled trout at night during August and September, the hottest time of the year.[…]
Inshore Fishing
Tips for fly-fishing
Down on the coast, it’s prime time for speckled trout. A weighted clouser or shrimp pattern suspended 2 to 3 feet under a VOSI (a fly rodder’s popping cork) will work great over reefs, and in cuts, canals and bayous. […]
Inshore Fishing
Delacroix’s tres amigos
Capt. Rykert Toledano Jr. puckishly calls Farley Dennis and Kelly LeBouef “good guys and good friends, but best of all cheap labor.”[…]
Inshore Fishing
How to keep live bait alive
Having live bait can make the difference in having a successful trip. Live bait is also expensive.[…]
Inshore Fishing
The Kwik Klip
Every speck and redfish fisherman who stows his rods in vertical holders has snagged a shirt on an exposed treble hook, been bopped on the head by a popping cork flopping in the wind or has spent frustrating moments untangling a snarled rod instead of fishing.[…]