In most places you’ll fish, the desirable fishing hotspots and the underwater hazards you may have to traverse to get to them are two entirely separate things. But in Louisiana’s inshore and nearshore waters, the two are often one and the same.[…]
Whatever your preference, you’ll find artificial shrimp comprise a highly versatile lure family well deserving of prime space in your tackle tray. Here’s a handful of ideas for their use.[…]
Patrick Banks, assistant secretary for fisheries, said trout limits for 2019 “probably” would not be affected while the results were being reevaluated by department biologists.[…]
Below the surface twitch baits provide the perfect hybrid capability for those finicky spring topwater trout. […]
Although springtime is when most anglers forget all about the inside bayous and target super-charged specks in the open bays, many fish remain in interior waters to feed on baby croakers.[…]
The engineers who designed all of the well heads, tank batteries and oil rigs that dot the state’s near-shore waters probably never thought once about all the fish that would be drawn to their structures.[…]
Reggie Legendre of Lafourche has been catching plenty of limits of speckled trout between Golden Meadow and Grand Isle recently by fishing from the bank with just a few pieces of tackle.[…]
Capt. Brian Windsor of Hackberry caught this 7 ½-pound speckled trout on a bone-colored Heddon One Knocker Spook topwater lure at West Cove on March 14.[…]
Here’s a quick lesson by Tommy Vidrine on how to catch speckled trout near Louisiana’s rock jetties.[…]
Guide reveals top 3 areas to fish With the relatively warm, wet, dreary winter Louisiana has experienced so far this year, Capt. Ronnie Lisotta is expecting some serious speckled trout action this spring — and[…]
Chas Champagne shows that there are still trout to be found in Lake Pontchartrain even after the Bonnet Carré Spillway opening.[…]
Even though the Bonnet Carré Spillway on the Mississippi River continues to pour out the remnants of a long, wet winter, the speckled trout bite should still be much better than it was in 2018.[…]
The Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries is reassessing the state’s stock of speckled trout. […]
Spring speckled trout will move miles to get away from muddy water because they need water with higher salinity.[…]
How to cast jerkbaits and get the merciless response that speckled trout exhibit after staring down its hard-plastic foe.[…]
Will Calcasieu Lake rebound from what many speckled trout fishermen believe was a subpar year in 2018?[…]