Unless their customers request the use of artificial lures, the Bellangers habitually use live bait for speckled trout. They bring live shrimp and live croakers with them on every trip.[…]
If you want to try fishing with big, hard swim baits but you don’t have the time, tools or expertise to tackle the task of making your own, you can purchase them online.[…]
• People new to the island should fish the beach and the rocks (breakwaters on the Gulf side of the island). Then venture farther from the island if the weather is good. A variety of fish can be caught at the rocks.[…]
Herrmann invited me along on a fishing trip to test the big baits in a bass lake he likes to fish north of Lake Pontchartrain.[…]
• Hire a guide to learn the area the first time you fish it.[…]
Can an artificial lure — a soft plastic — outfish a natural creature? That day has arrived and it’s like magic, hence lure’s name, thanks to Ken Chaumont of Lacassine.[…]
One man died and two were injured — one seriously — in a collision yesterday between a 24-foot bay boat and a 28-foot crew boat in Plaquemines Parish near the mouth of the Mississippi River, the Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries said today.[…]
Last year, my younger brother had his bachelor party in Cocodrie for a fishing weekend with the guys. Since this year I got married, I decided to do the same thing, except my trip was a post-wedding party labeled “The Non-Bachelor Party.”[…]
For generations, oyster lovers have filed into Acme Oyster House and Drago’s to sample the succulent bivalves plucked from Louisiana waters. Now, those landmark restaurants are joining with the Coalition to Restore Coastal Louisiana to help protect Louisiana’s shoreline for future generations.[…]
The mid-May die-off of bull redfish in Breton Sound is still a mystery to state fisheries managers, although they said menhaden boats are not suspected in the incident.[…]
Dear Capt. Paul:
I’m trying to locate the coordinates for Freemason Island.[…]
The blue crab is one of the most-fascinating creatures in coastal marshes. This is one creature whose scientific name (Callinectes sapidus) completely describes it.[…]
It was opening day of the 2012 trawling season for the east bank, and I had arrived a little early at the boat launch.[…]
Fishing the islands means different things to Louisiana speckled trout connoisseurs. Masses of pulverized shell, thick spartina grass rimmed by hidden oyster reefs and even near-perfect circles of roseau cane all have their place in different areas along the coast for anglers to hoist healthy yellowmouths over the gunnels.[…]
Live bait was designed by Satan himself.
It’s surely not a coincidence, then, that it’s all Louisiana speckled trout will hit in the heart of summer when the air is thick and heavy, and temperatures are hotter than hell.[…]
Because the seasons in the Southern Hemisphere are the exact opposite of ours here in the Northern Hemisphere, their hurricanes occur when our tropics are as calm as a bottle of Valium.[…]