Inshore Fishing
Tippets
June is perhaps the best month to catch speckled trout in the surf on flies.[…]
Fishing
Fishing
ABT Multi-Rig System
Unlike other umbrella rigs on the market, ABT Lure Company’s new Multi-Rig System lets you make modifications to fit varying fishing conditions. Its patented screw lock swimming head and removable wire harness allows you to easily customize your presentation.[…]
Inshore Fishing
Upcoming Events
All month — CCA STAR Tournament. Runs through Labor Day (Sept. 3). Fly Fishing East and West Divisions for heaviest speckled trout. Also, a consolation drawing at the end of the tournament for all trout weighed in the Fly Division.[…]
Fishing
Flounder Fanatic
Available in two different styles, the Bottom and the Jig, Flounder Fanatics puts the odds in the fisherman’s favor. The Flounder Fanatic Bottom comes in two weights (¾-ounce and 1½-ounce) and uses a lead body and a specially bent sideways hook so it better fits the flounder’s sideways mouth.[…]
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Elite strategem
Dean Rojas won last year’s BASS Elite Series stop at Toledo Bend with 70.15 pounds of bass caught over four days of fishing.[…]
Fishing Tournaments
Tietje’s top 5 anglers to watch
Predicting who will win a bass tournament is about as much of a sure thing as predicting what five cards you’re going to get in a hand of poker.[…]
Fishing Tournaments
Tietje’s top 5 Toledo Bend baits
Since he isn’t fishing the Bassmaster Elite Series Toledo Bend tournament this year because of a medical exemption, local bass pro Dennis Tietje didn’t mind revealing the five lures that he believes will play big parts in putting together a winning pattern when the pros stop at the Bend this month.[…]
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Dancing the jig
Saltwater fishing has its ups and downs, but when snapper top your target list you’ll have a ton of fun with a bait based on the notion of up-and-down.[…]
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Heading ’em off at the passes
In sort of a hypnotic, mesmerizing motion the tip of my float wavered left to right in a semi-circle until it slowly sunk beneath the surface of the water.[…]
Fishing Tournaments
Tournament schedule
The 2012 Bassmaster Elite Series will stop at Toledo Bend in early June, with the world’s top pros prefishing for the event beginning June 4, while competition will kick off at daybreak on June 7 and wrap up on June 10.[…]
Offshore Fishing
Appetizers accelerate the action
Snapper are notoriously wary, but if anything can override their caution, it’s their appetite.[…]
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Cover: June 2012
The nation’s top bass anglers head to Toledo Bend this month, and the coast trout action is as hot as it gets.[…]
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Rack ’em and stack ’em
“Many men go fishing all of their lives without knowing it is not fish they are after,” said Henry David Thoreau, the 19th century American poet, naturalist, hermit and philosopher. Obviously, Thoreau wasn’t from South Louisiana.[…]
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.[…]
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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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A full plate
“Ain’t no way!” Eddie snarled in response to Pelayo’s entreaty, which involved a “rig-fishing” trip.[…]