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Sweeping up
Making a clean sweep seems to always make things feel a little fresher.[…]
Fishing
Bass Fishing
Dress it up
Increase your chances of pushing those pensive fish over the edge with these three bait enhancement tricks.[…]
Freshwater Fishing
Veteran angler catching fewer small catfish
Charles Citrano has lived on Cross Lake for the last 15 years, but he estimates that over his 71 years of life he’s spent as much time on Cross Lake as he has at work.[…]
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Outa Sight
Everywhere I go, I seem to bump into Casey McLaurin, director of operations for Acadiana Outfitters, a high-end specialty outdoor retailer located on the outskirts of New Iberia. Casey loves to fish for speckled trout and he loves to duck hunt, so our talk always turns to one of the two subjects.[…]
Inshore Fishing
More flat fish, fewer junk fish
Because of the sideways bite of a flounder, traditional jigs leave a few fish on the table. However, Betts’ Flounder Fanatic hooks are a good way to increase your catch.[…]
Freshwater Fishing
Drift-fishing is a Cross Lake standard
Although he prefers fishing in a downpour, Charles Citrano doesn’t mind blending in with everybody else and doing a little drift-fishing for catfish every now and then.[…]
Offshore Fishing
Put some boat under your butt
Running the long distances necessary for offshore trout fishing —up to 25 miles one-way from either Southwest Pass or the eastern end of Marsh Island — demands having a real boat under you. And after reaching those points, Vermilion Bay must still be crossed.[…]
Inshore Fishing
Cuddin Eddie’s Pan-Fried Crispy Trout
For a new spin on the standby fried trout, try this recipe from Cuddin Eddie’s Pepper Relish Products’ cookbook for pan-fried crispy trout.[…]
Freshwater Fishing
Cross Lake visitors can gather at online community
After he started visiting Cross Lake on a regular basis about two years ago, Seth Winterer quickly discovered there wasn’t a whole lot of information about the lake on the internet.[…]
Offshore Fishing
Tis the season
Speckled trout fishing offshore of Vermilion Bay is a seasonal business, primarily because of the fickle behavior of the Atchafalaya River.[…]
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Second Fiddle
Capt. Marty LaCoste with Absolute Fishing Charters exited the mouth of Bayou DuLarge at Pelican Pass. Only this time, rather than pointing his bay boat toward more-familiar destinations like Coon Point and the Mardi Gras rig, he turned sharply toward the west and ran the coastline toward the often-overlooked Oyster Bayou.[…]
Offshore Fishing
Live bait life support
Live bait is considered critical for success by the anglers. Whether croakers, cocahoe minnows or mullet are used, live bait must, by definition, be kept alive to be used.[…]
Inshore Fishing
Bayou Raccourci top DuLarge flounder spot
Capt. Marty LaCoste loves to chase speckled trout, but he’s also been known to bring in ice chests full of flounder.[…]
Offshore Fishing
Rig removals counter to red snapper protection
The old removal regulations created in the 1970s focused on “navigational liability,” and have not been adjusted to the environmental protection laws that followed in the next three decades, EcoRigs’ Steve Kolian said.[…]
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Planning for stranding
Proper planning and a few extra items in a storage compartment can make a big difference after a boating accident.[…]
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Sit on top — fish on top
Primetime for topwater action in Southeast Louisiana is here. With the coming of the next few full moons, big female trout will be at their spawning peak and will get extremely aggressive with topwater baits.[…]