The mouth of the Mississippi River has been an absolute mess this year. If the relentless wind wasn’t bad enough, old Mother Nature made it even worse by pounding the upper Mississippi River Valley with more rain than the river could contain.[…]
You ever get those calls at work in the afternoon that you hate and know would tick off your boss?[…]
Offshore mariculture: Is it going to be the end of traditional recreational and commercial fishing, or is it a progressive, scientifically based step into the 21st century?[…]
Traveling to Venice from Hawaii, John Guinan and his dad were anxious to sample some of the world-class bluewater fishing they had heard about just off the Louisiana coast.[…]
Have you ever wondered why your trolling motor doesn’t run as long as you think it should between battery charges, or why your batteries don’t last as long as you expected?[…]
Anyone who thinks I’ve got an easy job should have been with me on the morning of my Lake Cataouatche trip.[…]
May is a good month to fish many lakes in Louisiana, but I prefer Toledo Bend because the topwater bite early in the morning there is phenomenal.[…]
The 25-foot Grady White fueling up at the dock looked perfectly normal for this setting, and the elegant brunette on the stern with the killer tan, bikini top and orange wrap flapping around her waist and thighs didn’t look out of place either.[…]
Gasoline is well over $3 a gallon and the peak of the fishing season has not even arrived. What if you could still have a great fishing trip and spend a lot less on fuel for both the truck and the boat?[…]
Kevin Carter resembled a marathon runner trying to sprint up the last hill to the finish line at the end of a race. Drenched in sweat from head to toe, his muscles rippled.[…]
There’s an epidemic going around: folks hooking into nice redfish only to lose the fish, and their flies, during the struggle.[…]
The problem anglers face in May is not whether to go fishing, but where. The action turns on all over the state this month, and virtually any area you pick will be a winner.Even when you narrow your choice down to a particular area, you still face the same dilemma.[…]
It’s the end of spring, and the peak of marsh bass fishing is past. Marshes near the Mississippi and Atchafalaya rivers are still brown with river water, and everywhere else in the marshes, aquatic plants are going into their summer growth period.[…]
Size matters. If you don’t think so, stand at any of the number of boat ramps around Calcasieu Lake this month and ask anglers what they’re going after.[…]
It’s hard to imagine that the Florida Parishes don’t have some type of freshwater reservoir to attract anglers.[…]
“What are the best types of maps?” That is a question I am asked over and over again. It is similar to trying to answer, “What is the best truck?”[…]