Lower St. Bernard Parish, whether one launches out of Shell Beach, Hopedale, Yscloskey, or Delacroix, has long been a sportfishing playground for New Orleanians. Fishermen can launch at any of the four sites to access the rocks at the end of the Mississippi River Gulf Outlet.[…]
No question about it, largemouth bass are bigger in the springtime, especially the females which are chocked full of eggs before the spawn. But big bass bite in the summer, too. And they are no lightweights.[…]
Freddie McMullen’s fertile mind has spawned a rattling cork specially designed for bream and crappie fishing. Dubbed the “Thunder Cork,” it features tiny BBs in two glass tubes firmly affixed to opposite sides of the cork.[…]
The Mississippi River Gulf Outlet, a dredged channel completed in 1965, never lived up to its predicted potential to largely replace the river proper as a deepwater approach to the Port of New Orleans.[…]
Frog fishing, like all topwater tactics, rewards diligent casting with that pulse-pounding surface assault. Whether it’s a walking frog or a popper, we watch that steady motion like a birddog on point, hoping with clinched jaw and held breath that the next movement of that plastic nose will detonate the explosive charge.[…]
There’s a long list of how to prepare fish to eat. But one of the oldest and most popular is whole-fried bream. Many people grew up eating them this way.[…]
Right now, grass is like a combination of Red Bull, bacon, Twinkies and ice cream for redfish — they simply can’t stay away from it. […]
Gary Yamamoto Custom Baits’ (GYCB) latest hot lure, the Sanshouo, almost didn’t make it off the cutting room floor.[…]
For the first time in a long time, there’s some rare good news on the red snapper front in the Gulf of Mexico.[…]
What’s the worst part about summer? The heat? Nope. The fresh-out-of-school kids terrorizing the neighborhood? Maybe. In my estimation it’s no one thing but rather hordes of a certain small thing; mosquitoes.[…]
Calcasieu Lake, more commonly known as Big Lake, is in flux.[…]
A dispute over a public fishing hole escalated Monday on Toledo Bend, leaving one angler with a ticket and another angler who allegedly pulled a firearm booked into the Sabine Parish Correctional Center, according to a press release from the Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries.[…]
Daniel Compagno experienced a wide range of emotions on the water out of Hopedale Tuesday, first losing the biggest flounder he’d ever seen after landing it up on the rocks near the MRGO dam — then barely managing to reel in his personal best speckled trout only an hour later to unexpectedly grab the lead in the CCA-Louisiana STAR Tournament’s East Division.[…]
I’ve always found wrangling big fish exciting, but doing it from a tiny 8-foot kayak took the thrill to a whole new level. Last month, I spent an evening targeting big alligator gar with noodle lines — and what I ended up hooking pulled me a lot more than I pulled it.[…]
With Father’s Day upon us, it’s time to think about the old man. You know, the one who first took you fishing and cleaned your dirty diaper from time to time. Why not a fishing trip?[…]
Enforcement agents with the Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries cited two Buras men on Saturday for alleged gillnet violations in Plaquemines Parish near Empire, according to a news release.[…]