I could tell wade-fishing turns Guy Stansel on by the way he jumped into the water. While his buddy Mark Jeanes quietly stepped down the transom ladder into Calcasieu Lake, Stansel leapt in with reckless abandon.[…]
Lots of folks launch at the Oak Ridge Park boat ramp in Golden Meadow during April. A great percentage of them aspire to fish East Timbalier. […]
Hard late-April cold fronts are about as common as honest politicians.[…]
It has been nine years since an angler has taken a speckled trout that broke into Louisiana’s top 10 list, but on March 23 speckled trout history happened again when what appears to be the eighth largest trout ever taken in the state was landed on Sabine Lake.[…]
Spain’s Running of the Bulls has nothing over ours: Every year, usually beginning somewhere between late February to early March and extending into April, huge schools of bull reds show up at the barrier islands and maul everything in the water.[…]
On Monday, Cap. Kade Shaw was fighting fog and high winds on Calcasieu Lake after launching from Hebert’s Landing.[…]
We all know the importance of introducing kids to fishing. Getting them “hooked” early will teach them a wide range of skills and help create memories that will last a lifetime.[…]
“We were a little concerned that he might not like it and we made that two hour drive for nothing, but that was definitely not the case,” Jayson Poucher said of his son Braydon’s first kayak fishing trip.[…]
Capt. Chris Pike with Cast and Blast Charters has been smashing the trout in Delacroix for the past few days. The key is understanding where to fish on any given day, he said.[…]
If you are interested in line-breaking tuna and other large species in the Gulf of Mexico, then you should at least try the Midnight Lump.
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At the mouth of the cove on the southwestern portion of Calcasieu Lake, Capt. Adam Jaynes slowed his Haynie Bay boat way, way down.[…]
Slidell’s John Falterman Jr. looks forward to March, April and May when he has his eyes on the prize of larger speckled trout.[…]
Capt. Adam Jaynes said wade-fishing for the big trout — even when waters remain a bit on the cold side — is what he likes to do most of all when using topwaters and suspending baits.[…]
I’m not sure why fishermen in the other Gulf coast states call them bull minnows and we call them cocahoes, and I don’t have a clue what the origin of our name is — but you can bet it has something to do with our Cajun heritage. […]
The big, fair-skinned, bluff man looked at me level in the eyes as he spoke.[…]
Both suspending lures and soft plastics will produce fish.[…]