Redfish
Best tackle
Like all anglers, Capt. Austin Plaisance has his preferences when it comes to tackle. Here’s how he’ll rig up for battle this month.[…]
Inshore Fishing
Redfish
Don’t make this mistake
We anglers are creatures of habit. We use the same tackle trip after trip. We use the same lures time and again.[…]
Redfish
Intersect incoming trout
The cool thing about September is that as reds move outside, hordes of speckled trout start their fall migration into the coastal marshes.[…]
Redfish
‘Yak tournament tactics
Clayton Shilling is no stranger to the podium when it comes to kayak fishing tournaments. He has won several and regularly finds himself in the money.[…]
Columns
New gear reviews
Many people are prone to getting seasick, and if you fish a kayak in rough waters, the tiny craft is prone to being tossed around — which can make things even worse.[…]
Redfish
September’s best kayak fishing
September’s best kayak fishing[…]
Inshore Fishing
Gordon gives Lafitte the nudge it needed
For the last couple weeks, Lafitte-area speckled trout were standing on the edge of the diving board, their toes curled, unsure of whether they wanted to commit yet to the inside pool.[…]
Inshore Fishing
Night-fishing kayak trip in Hackberry produces
There was no moon, tons of mosquitoes and showers in the area when we launched our kayaks about 11 p.m. last Saturday into Kelso Bayou near Hackberry.[…]
News Breaker
Video: Consistent redfish action out of Venice
A very green Mississippi river has sucked the redfish in along the shoreline, according to longtime Venice guide Capt. Boola Landry of Reel Tite Fishing Guide Service.[…]
News Breaker
Marsh Man Masson vid: Catching redfish after a tropical storm
Tropical Storm Gordon certainly won’t be remembered for generations as a monumental deliverer of destruction, but that doesn’t mean the storm didn’t leave its mark.[…]
News Breaker
Delacroix redfish getting thick inshore
Belle Chasse angler Chad Battles isn’t a fishing guide, but he’s on the water chasing redfish at least as much as any professional fisherman. As such, he can really recognize trends, and one of them he’s seeing now is increasing redfish action out of Delacroix.[…]
Ask Captain Paul
Capt. Paul’s Fishing Edge: GPS waypoints for Lafitte
I refer to the Lafitte Edge area as the location in the Southeast Louisiana marsh in St. Charles, Lafourche and Jefferson parishes between the Bayou Segnette launch in Westwego, Lakes Cataouatche and Salvador, areas in the Lake Salvador Wildlife Management Area, southwestward to Bayous Gauche and des Allemands, Lac des Allemands and Bayou Boeuf and eastward toward The Pen and Bayou Du Pont, then continuing south to the northern part of Barataria Bay.[…]
Inshore Fishing
LWFC: Changes likely in blue crab harvest regs for 2019
At their meeting Thursday in Baton Rouge, the Louisiana Wildlife and Fisheries Commission adopted a notice of intent to change regulations for the commercial and recreational harvest of blue crabs in 2019.[…]
Inshore Fishing
Marsh Man Masson vid: Jack attack in a yak!
When the waters way, way inside along the South Louisiana coast get to their warmest levels of the year, king-sized jack crevalle move in to feast on abundant baitfish stocks.[…]
Fishing Hotspots
Grand Isle — Still hot in September
My old friend Capt. Keith “Herk” Bergeron said there’s still plenty nice trout to catch this month, but you’ll have to fish deeper for them.[…]
Inshore Fishing
Elmer’s Island to close in advance of Tropical Storm Gordon
The Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries announced that Elmer’s Island will close in advance of Tropical Storm Gordon starting at 9 a.m. Tuesday morning.[…]