A 30-year-old Marrero man who took undercover agents with the Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries on chartered fishing trips without a charter boat license pleaded guilty last week to numerous commercial fishing violations in Plaquemines Parish.[…]
Pelayo’s scouting report was as bleak as the LDWF’s aerial report. And both destroyed the giddy forecasts from DU and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife folks.[…]
Keith Richard never had a chance at figuring out what was going on when he walked into Stillwater Outfitters fishing guide Steve Smith’s Cypremort Point camp.[…]
So it’s been a slow season for trout. The usual summer slam we expect every year never quite materialized, and anglers and guides alike have scratched their heads, wondering if this season is an ominous portend of things to come.[…]
Fishing out of Seabrook, the mouth of the Inner Harbor Canal to Lake Ponchartrain, Allen “Chink” Sumas Jr. once caught nine speckled trout that weighed-in at 9 to 9 ½ pounds – in a single day.[…]
The redfish bite remains red hot in Dularge, while speckled trout are tough to find unless you have access to live bait.[…]
Grand Isle trout fisherman Terry St. Cyr is competitive on and off the water, but his passion is catching speckled trout.[…]
You’ve seen the photos of Caminada Pass packed with more than 700 kayaks during last weekend’s Ride the Bull V, but you can now get a different perspective in a video shot using a drone. And it’s amazing.[…]
Kayak fishing with a rod and reel is certainly popular, but there are other ways to catch fish that work well in a ’yak.[…]
Tommy Vidrine’s speckled trout fishing calendar is broken into three segments, and how and where he fishes is different for each period.[…]
“I try to think like a fish,” said Tommy Vidrine, dark eyes burning fiercely. “A predator like a trout is different than a redfish. They will be a predator and a scavenger. Speckled trout are always predators.[…]
Workers were dumping limestone Thursday afternoon and putting the finishing touches on Grand Isle’s new kayak launch, which officials hoped would be up and running by this weekend.[…]
Shrimp are kings of summertime trout fishing — everyone knows that.[…]
The dog days of August already have Capt. Mike Gallo looking forward to the cooler, crisper days to come later this fall.[…]
When Capt. Mike Gallo worked in retail many years ago, he used a slogan that’s served him well ever since.[…]
David ‘T-Coon’ Billeaud is not a fan of live bait.
He routinely uses soft plastics exclusively to catch big trout around Cypremort Point. […]