Freshwater Fishing
Essential bull-bream equipment
Bream big and small will often suck a bait — hook and all — deep down their throats before the float sinks.[…]
Fishing
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Night Shift
“And they call this recreation?,” I thought to myself as the Snapper Time, a 21-foot Cape Horn, swung into a wide arc and slowed to pull up to a big yellow-legged steel oil and gas platform. Recreational means fun by most definitions.[…]
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Thoroughfare Thoroughbred
The average horse’s heart weighs 7 pounds.
The historic racehorse Eclipse, a distant sire of triple-crown winner Secretariat, had a 14-pound heart.[…]
Freshwater Fishing
Beating the heat during the bream bite
June temperatures often start out in the mid 70s, requiring bream anglers to use a few precautions when going out on the water for a morning of fishing.[…]
Offshore Fishing
John Langlois’ tips for trophy red snapper fishing
Expert John Langlois’ shares his top 12 tips for catching trophy red snapper while fishing the waters off the Louisiana coast.[…]
Inshore Fishing
Causeway guide Dumas offers early summer trout-fishing tips
Big things are in store for Lake Pontchartrain.
How big?[…]
Offshore Fishing
Tips for cleaning snappers
Ricky Richoux of Slimeslingers Professional Fish Cleaning gives a detailed step-by-step guide of how he cleans red snapper.[…]
Inshore Fishing
Lake Pontchartrain Causeway facts
• The Causeway is 23.83 miles long.
• The twin bridges are supported by 9,500 concrete stanchions.[…]
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Sighting in
I used to be fascinated at how quickly my grandfather’s catfish would come to the surface of his two farm ponds as he drove across the field in their direction.[…]
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Delacroix Inside Out
Capt. John Gremillion quit guiding because he likes to fish too much.[…]
Bass Fishing
Afternoon Delight
It doesn’t take much to get a typical Louisiana bass angler out of bed early during June. He knows he’s not going to be out there on the lake all that long anyway.[…]
Offshore Fishing
Charter business born of cancer news
Joey Palmisano was diagnosed with bone marrow cancer about five years ago. Not long after that, he sat down with his son Billy Joe to find out any plans the younger Palmisano had for the future.[…]
Inshore Fishing
Tides are next to impossible to predict at Delacroix
If you want to know when is the best time to go to Delacroix, you forget all about looking at the tide forecasts.[…]
Bass Fishing
Big worms not the only brush-pile baits that work on Caney Lake
There’s no doubt a big Texas-rigged worm is the way to fish the numerous brush piles in Caney Lake during the summer because they work more often than not.[…]
Offshore Fishing
Snapper from smaller boats
Many red snapper trips are made on offshore boats. Capt. Eric Dumas figured out a way to make it happen for himself in his 24-foot Ranger bay boat.[…]
Inshore Fishing
Top baits for Delacroix specks
Like any speckled-trout angler, Capt. John Gremillion enjoys catching big fish, but he likes catching limits even more, so he throws a TKO Shrimp double-rig — even under a rattling cork.[…]