Inshore Fishing
The Cameron-Creole Watershed Project controversy
The Cameron-Creole Watershed Project, like many marsh restoration projects, carries fishing controversy baggage.[…]
Fishing
Bass Fishing
How to make your own spinnerbait
Tony Landry for years built his own spinnerbaits as a hobby, adding that it had a lot more to do with his love of tinkering and less about saving money than one would think.[…]
Freshwater Fishing
Basics of cork fishing for trout
In addition to the chunk-and-wind routine, late-summer trout anglers fishing Breton Island or other coastal island will do well to keep a cork rig handy.[…]
Inshore Fishing
Tippets
Water temperatures begin to drop this month — slowly at first due to radiative cooling but more so as cool fronts invade the state.[…]
Inshore Fishing
Capt. Erik Rue’s fall redfish lures
Capt. Erik Rue’s go-to bait for most of this morning’s fishing trip was a simple jighead and MirrOlure Lil John Twitchbait, but he made a special effort to point out the effectiveness of the Jenny’s Jigs jighead.[…]
Inshore Fishing
Cameron-Creole Wateshed Project a ‘necessary evil,’ fishing guide says
Much of Rue’s fishing this time of year is done on Cameron Prairie National Wildlife Refuge located on the eastern shore of Calcasieu Lake.[…]
Bass Fishing
Pros and cons to spinners
Tony Landry explained why spinnerbaits work.
“They are profile baits that effectively mimic different things that fish eat,” Landry said. “The rubber skirts we use pulse in the water, and the blades also pulse and reflect the flash of food fish.”[…]
Freshwater Fishing
The perfect crappie boat
Every fisherman is proud of his new fishing rig. Steve Danna is no exception, but he didn’t just pick out a boat he liked.[…]
Inshore Fishing
Two Houma men cited for taking polluted oysters
Enforcement agents with the Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries cited two Houma men on Tuesday for alleged oyster violations in Terrebonne Parish.[…]
Bass Fishing
Heart Tail Swimbaits
Gary Yamamoto Custom Baits keeps raising the bar higher and higher with each entry into the artificial lure manufacturing industry.[…]
Bass Fishing
Toledo Bend is in great shape for September
I’m sure fall isn’t in the air at all when you read this in late August or early September. But “prefall” is just around the corner, which means bass fishing is about to bust loose on Toledo Bend.[…]
Inshore Fishing
LDWF rescues boaters stranded on Lake Pontchartrain
Agents with the Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries rescued two boaters near midnight Monday on Lake Pontchartrain in St. John the Baptist Parish.[…]
Fishing
Video: Barred owl snatches bream from angler’s hand
The old saying says if you give a man a fish, you feed him for a day — but if you teach a man to fish, you feed him for a lifetime.[…]
Inshore Fishing
Garyville man dies in overnight frogging accident in St. John the Baptist Parish
A 54-year-old Garyville man died early Monday in a frogging accident on Mississippi Bayou in St. John the Baptist Parish, according to the Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries.[…]
Freshwater Fishing
Child dies in Amelia boating accident
A 7-year-old Bayou L’Ourse girl died Sunday afternoon when the boat she was riding in struck another vessel in a curve in Bayou Cheramie in Assumption Parish, according to the Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries.[…]
Fishing
Weevils helping in LDWF’s fight to control giant salvinia
Since 1998 — when giant salvinia was first discovered in Louisiana at Toledo Bend — the state’s Department of Wildlife and Fisheries has been fighting an uphill battle to keep the invasive South American plant under control.[…]