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APT Moniker
Fog wrapped up the Mississippi River passes as sunlight slowly beat back the darkness. And so we sat at Venice Marina, chatting and watching workers repair hurricane damage to the facility.[…]
Fishing
Inshore Fishing
Big Lake Producing Big Limits
One of the things that separate professional guides from weekend anglers is the experience of time spent on the water.[…]
Inshore Fishing
Lockport Action in Canals and Little Bayous
This is the time of year when Captain T-Man Cheramie (985-693-6828) expects the water to finally come up around Lockport and stay.[…]
Bass Fishing
Red River Right for Early Spawn
Bass typically spawn later in rivers than they do in lakes because of high, spring water levels that look more like a Yoo-hoo than water.[…]
Inshore Fishing
Breton Sound Heating Up Inside and Outside
Fishing has turned on all over Louisiana the past couple of days, and that has made it difficult to single out one particular spot to highlight.[…]
Inshore Fishing
Rigolets Right For Waiting Out Pontchartrain
Captain Greg Schlumbrecht of To Fish Charters expects the HWY 11 and the Train Bridges across Lake Pontchartrain to explode with giant speckled trout just any day now.[…]
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Ditch Digger
The wind whipped across Toledo Bend the day after a front passed, and Joe Joslin wasn’t look forward to running north from his camp to the relative protection of Six Mile Creek.[…]
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Plucky Pontchartrain
The first thing that stood out to me was just how clear the water was. I mean, this was Lake Pontchartrain — post Katrina.[…]
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Cover: March 2006
Hear that? That’s the sound of millions of bass moving to the beds.[…]
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Spring Fling
Kirk Stansel was worried when he finally made it back to his lodge after Hurricane Rita tore through Southwest Louisiana in September.[…]
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Sportsman Survivor
Time travel is a scary proposition.
For one thing, you never know if the portal you slide down is two ways. I mean, really, when you’re vaporized from one era and reconstructed in another, is there any guarantee you’ll be able to get back to where you started?[…]
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Marsh Olympics
It was still dark in the pre-dawn hours of a Thursday morning when I shook hands with Capt. Chad Dufrene and we sat down for breakfast at Rose’s Café in Golden Meadow.[…]
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Shrouded Gem
Folks living in the northern portion of the state don’t have far to look when seeking good fishing waters.[…]
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Compliments of Concordia
Jody Perrault and Travis Brown struggled to bring their sack of bass to the scales at the conclusion of the Bass Busters Team Trail kick-off tournament at Lake Concordia last February.[…]
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The Great Bait Debate
Those fish aren’t gonna hit that plastic,” my fishing buddy said emphatically more than a decade ago.[…]
Columns
Apocalyptic angst? Relax, it’s Miller time
One of my best trips of last season was prophesized by the Bible.[…]