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Grand Isle is grand — Guide’s tips for more specks, reds
June means it’s time to head to Grand Isle for all the trout and redfish action you can handle. Find out how this veteran guide stays on fish all summer.[…]
Fishing
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Where’s Waldo? — Tips from a crappie expert
Picture this, if you will: About 50 crappie fishermen of all sizes and shapes are all gathered in the same area of the lake in different boats, wearing different-colored clothes and using different baits, all fishing with jig poles.[…]
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The long haul — Go to Black Bay, Chandeleur Sound for lunker trout
You’re on your lunch break from work sitting in the A/C, but in the back of your mind you know it would be more enjoyable out in the heat catching speckled trout, like all of the guides are doing.[…]
Bass Fishing
Post-spawn potential — Learn why you should fish Toledo Bend after lunkers leave the shallows
There’s no time when Toledo Bend guide Dave Mansue isn’t in love with this Sabine River impoundment.[…]
Bass Fishing
Cover: June 2016-Bass
Don’t give up on Toldeo Bend just because the spawn is over. You just have to know the best tactics.[…]
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Cover: June 2016-Trout
Don’t give up on Toldeo Bend just because the spawn is over. You just have to know the best tactics.[…]
Bass Fishing
The drop — Expert tips for Atchfalaya Basin bass fishing
“The drop is what everybody waits for,” the big dude said. “The fish have been swimming around in trees for months, and the falling water pulls them out into the canals and bayous.”[…]
Inshore Fishing
St. Croix Avid Inshore
Designed specifically for inshore saltwater angling, the Avid Inshore series from St. Croix Rod includes 22 spinning and casting models that will help you catch redfish, trout, flounder and drum.[…]
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Blue-water takedown – Tips for landing mangrove snapper
The cluster of bananas sat forlornly on top of the dock piling.
Fifteen minutes earlier, the five deep-sea charter fishermen were handing their personal items to the two deck hands — Billy Joe Palmisano and Joseph Cantrelle — for stowing.[…]
Inshore Fishing
Go light in Lafitte
When you pull up to your favorite marina and grab some live bait, your main objective is to get the shrimp in your livewell and keep them frisky. […]
Fishing Tournaments
Angler in Fourchon wins Louisiana CCA STAR pickup truck
Like the old saying goes, timing is everything.
Less than 24 hours after registering for the Louisiana Coastal Conservation Association’s STAR Tournament, Raymond Champagne reeled in a tagged redfish Tuesday morning along the Fourchon barges to win the 2016 grand prize: a brand new $40,000 Chevy Silverado pickup truck. […]
Bass Fishing
KVD details winning crankbait strategy on Toledo Bend
I’m getting a lot of questions about the crankbait strategy I used to win at Toledo Bend.[…]
Inshore Fishing
Lake Pontchartrain is loaded
Lake Pontchartrain is known for the Trestles, the Causeway and all of the structures that house speckled trout each year.[…]
Inshore Fishing
How to fish Cheniere Reef
If one of Southwest Louisiana’s top speckled trout fishermen had his druthers — and he does — and could point the bow of his boat to fish for speckled trout in June anywhere on Calcasieu Lake, it would be the southern Cheniere Reef.[…]
Freshwater Fishing
Bream biting at Lac Des Allemands
The bream bite at Lac Des Allemands south of Edgard was already starting in late April, but Baton Rouge angler Josh Roussell said by this month you almost can’t strike out.[…]
Freshwater Fishing
Potential new No. 1-ranked bluegill caught Saturday on kiddie pole in Iatt Lake
Tim Delaney might have been fishing with a 2-foot kiddie pole on Iatt Lake Saturday evening, but the pint-sized tackle didn’t stop the 33-year-old Prospect angler from reeling in potentially the biggest bream ever to land in the Louisiana record books.[…]