Offshore Fishing
Find steel to find tuna
The fall Grand Isle tuna game starts with finding big deep sea, steel-hull shrimp trawlers at work.[…]
Fishing
Offshore Fishing
Rigging up
When Kim and Blake Fouquier leave the dock, they carry a small arsenal of rods and reels. Their basic tuna rigs include Tiagra 50W Shimano Two-Speed Lever Drag reels mounted on J & M Tackle custom rods.[…]
Offshore Fishing
Chum! It’s what’s for breakfast
Chum, and plenty of it, is a critical part of catching fall tuna ghosting under shrimp boats. Chum can be almost anything fishy, and it doesn’t have to be fresh.[…]
Offshore Fishing
Taking care of the ride
For fishing 50 or 60 miles offshore, the single most important piece of equipment is a fisherman’s boat and motor.[…]
Offshore Fishing
Why October?
Tuna fishing as described here is not a year-round sport. While yellowfin can be caught off of the Louisiana coast all year, October is special. After a couple of cold fronts, the hot-blooded fish come nearer to shore from their usual deep-water haunts.[…]
Inshore Fishing
Tippets
It’s been a tough year for marsh trout, but if October holds true to form we should see an inundation of the snaggled-tooth species. A weighted Clouser or Shrimp pattern set 30 inches below a VOSI will be the ticket over reefs, and in cuts, canals and bayous.[…]
Bass Fishing
Baits for brush piles
So you’ve got your brush piles set up and now it’s time to reap the benefits of your labor. What are the best lures to use around brush piles? Marc Deschenes puts a lot of faith in two main lures — big plastic worms and spinnerbaits. […]
Bass Fishing
Brush strokes
It’s no secret that largemouth bass love to hang around submerged brush piles, especially early in the year before they are ready to head for the shallow spawning grounds.[…]
Fishing
Spray foam inside handle makes net buoyant
Necessity is the mother of invention, and Capt. Mike Gallo was in desperate need of a solution.[…]
Columns
The Crappie Psychic
There were days as recently as this summer that a 51-year-old Raceland outdoorsman returned from a sac-a-lait (crappie) fishing trip and removed a secret weapon on his tube jig about a mile from the boat ramp.[…]
Inshore Fishing
Guide hopeful cool front pushes even more trout in near Dularge
Specks started appearing pretty consistently in inside waters around Dularge about two weeks ago, and Capt. Marty LaCoste is hopeful this week’s cool front will push even more trout his way.[…]
Fishing
LDWF delays oyster season in portion of Southeast Louisiana
The Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries on Tuesday delayed the oyster season in a portion of public oyster seed grounds in Southeast Louisiana to protect recently settled young oysters, referred to as spat.[…]
Contents
MS Oct. 2014 Columns
Turbidity negatively affects fisheries. It reduces light penetration and, thus, reduces the production of algae that is the foundation of the food web. Eventually the fine silt particles that make water turbid settle out smothering organisms that live on the bottom, turning hard bottom areas into soft muck, and eventually filling in reservoirs.[…]
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Deer Hero
When Randy Lambert of Barnwell may not be a poker player, but he knows how to play the cards he’s been dealt at the beginning of every deer season.[…]
Fishing
Two Houma men plead guilty to oyster violations
Two Terrebonne Parish men were sentenced last week for illegal oyster violations in connection with a June incident in Sevin Canal in Terrebonne Parish.[…]
Inshore Fishing
IFA Championship events scheduled this month in Houma
Houma will be the host city for two IFA Tour championship events this month, including this week’s Kayak Fishing Tour Championship.[…]