Inshore Fishing
Big Lake guide reports strong schooling action
Calcasieu Lake has sweetened recently due to excessive rainfall, but that doesn’t mean the fishing has totally shut down.[…]
Fishing
Columns
Florida bass are different creatures
Largemouth bass are the most popular freshwater recreational fish in America, in spite of the changing face of the fishery. Gone are the days of a bass fisherman being pictured as a grandfather in a rowboat with a grandson or contemplative pipe-puffing angler patiently casting a clunky wooden topwater plug with his old knuckle-buster.[…]
Columns
Trout, reds just love Shiney-Hineys
When speckled trout are biting, really in a feeding frenzy, they will bite on anything.[…]
Ask Captain Paul
How do I transfer info from computer to GPS?
Capt. Paul:
I recently purchased a Garmin 545s. Is there a way to mark spots, tracks and bodies of water on my computer then transfer them to the unit?[…]
Columns
Pitch, slip and cup vital terms for props
Last month’s column just barely scratched the surface as it pertains to propeller technology. In order to better understand propeller designs and their applications it will be necessary to understand the language of propellers.[…]
Fishing
The learning curve has been slashed
Thirty years ago, a state-of-the-art fish finder had a round turntable with a light bulb mounted on its edge spinning behind a clear circular window. There were hash marks and depth scale numbers printed around the window.[…]
Inshore Fishing
Delacroix trout thick under shrimp, in winter holes
Last week’s northerly blow left a surprising number of shrimp in the Delacroix marsh. They’re small (I’d guess about 80-count), but there are plenty of them, and they’re being devoured by trout from the bottom and sea gulls from above.[…]
Bass Fishing
Try flipping Chicot this month
This month, most Louisiana outdoorsmen are deer and duck hunting, so the amount of fishing pressure on all the waterways has been reduced drastically.[…]
News Breaker
Federal managers shut down another Gulf fishery
CORPUS CHRISTI, TX – The National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) continued its bizarre history of biased management regarding Gulf amberjack when it announced this week that the recreational season for the popular offshore species will close on October 24 due to the recreational sector overfishing its quota.[…]
Bass Fishing
Lazy Anglers
Although the summer days are loosely labeled as lazy here in LouisianAlthough the summer days are loosely labeled as lazy here in Louisiana, November is actually the best month to be a lazy bass angler at Lake D’Arbonne.a, November is actually the best month to be a lazy bass angler at Lake D’Arbonne.[…]
Contents
Barbless in Salvador
Lake Salvador is a huge body of water located due south of New Orleans and southeast of the Salvador Wildlife Management Area in St. Charles Parish.[…]
Contents
Louisiana Swordfish?
The Mississippi River delta and surrounding offshore waters are without a doubt some of the richest fishing grounds in the world. There is no other place on the face of the planet where an angler can target largemouth bass and blue marlin in the same day, no other place where limits of 20-pound red snapper and 10-pound mangrove snapper are not uncommon, no other place where you can catch 100+-pound yellowfin year-round on a day trip.[…]
Contents
Freezer Burn
If you’re deepfreeze is anything like my family’s, it takes you a while to dig through all the leftovers on top just to get to the good stuff underneath.[…]
Inshore Fishing
Back to the bays at Venice with river rising
Although the calendar shows that the trout and redfish should have invaded the Mississippi River at Venice, that hasn’t exactly been the case according to Captain Owen Langridge with Big O Charters (225-978-1136).[…]
Inshore Fishing
Guide says Lafitte redfish bite “on fire”
One of the great things about Southeast Louisiana is that you don’t have to drive very far to get to some of the best fishing holes in the world.[…]
Inshore Fishing
Shell Beach bite getting better every day
Anybody fishing with the king, Captain Frank Moore (504-887-4960) lately has found that Biloxi Marsh, Stump Lagoon and Muscle Bay are absolutely full of redfish and trout right now.[…]