All the freshwater that has been diverted from the Mississippi River down through Lafitte has pushed the best salinity levels south, and Captain Theophile Bourgeois with Bourgeois Charters (504-341-5614) says the best trout fishing is from Manila Village to the Gulf of Mexico.[…]
Folks may not be thinking too much about flounder right here in the middle of the summer, but a recent trip I made with Captain Jeff Poe of Big Lake Guide Service (337-598-3268) and his son Nick proved to all of us that keeping an open mind can fill your cooler with lots of flat fish while the sun sizzles overhead.[…]
The basic principles of sonar are tied to the laws of physics and can’t change much, but Humminbird’s Side Imaging feature proves that sonar’s application to sportfishing is still evolving.[…]
Capt. Eric Dumas is just one angler who loves targeting trout in the cooler hours just before dusk.[…]
There are ways to catch bass in the brutal heat of July. Just ask Rick Redmon and Mike Shelton.[…]
With gasoline prices soaring to all-time highs every other day, I am getting questions about how to stretch the fuel mileage of my customers’ boats.[…]
Like a hyperactive schoolboy at recess, 66-year-old Danny Womack positioned his bay boat stern end to the rig, while instructing me to drop the anchor.[…]
As we headed out the garage door with our poles, my son Robbie and I waved to Shirley, but she remained oblivious, gabbing away on her cell phone about the movie “Sex and the City.”[…]
Reports are that red snapper are teeming at virtually any rig off of the Louisiana coast. That would normally be good news except that snapper fishermen are facing a delayed, shortened season, combined with limits cut in half and fuel prices at the dock of more than $4 per gallon.[…]
Soon after the ChatterBait craze subsided somewhat in the mid-2000s, there was a big bass tournament in the heart of Acadiana.The results disproved the notion that some bass anglers may mistakenly have about red-hot new artificial lures: Sure, it works somewhere else, but it won’t produce here.[…]
Fishing in this hot, July weather is tough without shade. So I’ve picked one of the coolest lakes in the state — Turkey Creek, located just outside of Wisner in the east-central part of the state.[…]
Imagine that you are fishing a coastal lake and there is only one oyster reef smack dab in the middle of it — no cuts, no canals, no points, just that one solitary reef.[…]
It’s like a beach umbrella for bass — shelter from the swelter and a nice place to enjoy a semi-private siesta. Lily pads, those broad green leaves that grow on stalks and look like big pie plates, comprise one of the most fundamental bass habitats throughout many Southern Louisiana waterways.[…]
As a youngster growing up in Goldonna, the latter part of May served notice that I was on the cusp of something extra special.[…]
Most people try to escape the corporate world by going fishing. Unfortunately, many in the fishing world are finding it becoming more and more like the corporate world every day.[…]
This summer, like each summer for the last dozen or so years, we will get our annual report on the size of the Gulf of Mexico “dead zone.”[…]