Capt. Lane Zimmer has battled mangrove snapper enough to have seen all the highs and lows that come with going after these smart fish inhabiting oil rigs close to Louisiana’s coastline.[…]
Having live bait can make the difference in having a successful trip. Live bait is also expensive.[…]
When I climbed into the cab of Jim Danley’s pickup truck to go fishing, I happened to glance into the truck’s bed and spied his fishing rods.[…]
When fishing for mangroves, Capt. Lane Zimmer always keeps a few rods at the ready in case he spots a curious lemonfish cruising the surface.[…]
With a few easy strokes of his knife, Jim Danley shows how to produce mild-tasting, white-fleshed cutlets of fish from his big river catfish.[…]
Every speck and redfish fisherman who stows his rods in vertical holders has snagged a shirt on an exposed treble hook, been bopped on the head by a popping cork flopping in the wind or has spent frustrating moments untangling a snarled rod instead of fishing.[…]
The Lake Pontchartrain Causeway consists of two spans of bridge, each 24 miles long. That’s a lot of bridge.[…]
I thought that I was going to do a human interest story about an all-American country boy-type of youngster who just happened to catch the fish of a lifetime.[…]
Greg Schlumbrecht likens bottom-fishing soft plastics on the Causeway to bass fishin[…]
LaRocca’s Camp isn’t the only tried-and-true Barataria Bay trout mecca.[…]
Completely removing the backbone of an odd-shaped fish like a flounder sounds like an impossible task, but Vern Becnel has mastered it. Try these steps.[…]
Although the weir on Island Drive is one of his main fall-back options, Ty Hibbs actually prefers fishing a few of the other Pointe-aux-Chenes Wildlife Management Area weirs and bayous because they — in his estimation — actually offer a little bit better fishing.[…]
Worms, crickets and minnows under bobbers yield a lot of our bluegill and crappie action, but there’s another game that promises tons of fun — light cranking.[…]
While Away Charters’ Rykert Toledano Jr. loves to fish for speckled trout at night during August and September, the hottest time of the year.[…]
As Ty Hibbs and I ventured away from the Island Road weir and headed back to the weir on the western levee of the impoundment, he kept pointing out spots he thought would hold flounder.[…]
There was fear among some in the tournament community that sizable bass would be hard to come by after the Louisiana Wildlife and Fisheries Commission removed the 14-inch minimum length limit in 2013 and increased the daily creel to 10 bass this June 8 for all waters within the Atchafalay Basin and the Lake Verret system.[…]