Inshore Fishing
Inshore insights: Locating oyster reefs
You’ve probably found success fishing oyster reefs. If not, you’ll have a “honey hole” for life if you can locate one that consistently produces fish.[…]
News Breaker
Inshore Fishing
When temps cool, Highway 1 action heats up
We looked much more like duck hunters than fishermen, but last Thursday morning me and Tommy Vidrine ventured out early to target speckled trout in the ponds and canals adjacent to Highway 1 near Grand Isle. […]
Big Bass
Bistineau angler catches, releases 12-pound monster
Last Wednesday, Jan. 24, Hunter Vaughn and his grandpa Jack Elkins decided to make a quick late-afternoon fishing trip on Lake Bistineau. Neither knew it at the time, but they were about one hour from encountering the biggest bass they’d ever seen.[…]
Bass Fishing
How to find spring bass no one else targets
Most bass anglers wait anxiously all year for the spring spawn, and then head straight to the banks of their favorite lake to pluck big girls off their beds.[…]
Field Notes
How to keep batteries properly charged
We’ve all been there. You know, you walk out to the boat the morning of the trip you’ve been planning for a week and the batteries aren’t charged.[…]
Field Notes
Boat tips to get ready for fishing season
If you’re a die-hard hunter, the odds are pretty good you haven’t looked at your fishing boat very much since October. So with hunting seasons finally closing out, it’s time to pull the cover off the old girl and get her ready for the spring fishing bonanza.[…]
Crappie/Bream
Spiders track down Ouachita River crappie
Tim Elrod hasn’t been a crappie fisherman for decades like some anglers, but when he started picking up the sport a few years ago, the West Monroe angler was hooked.[…]
Bass Fishing
Best bets for Upper-Basin bass
The sprawling Atchafalaya Basin offers bass anglers a lot of playing room, but when Addis angler Darren Hernandez heads to this swamp, he’s likely to be working the waters surrounding Big Bayou Pigeon.[…]
Fishing Hotspots
Slow down in Delacroix
Fishing, a lot of times, isn’t about following a path as much as hacksawing your own.[…]
Fishing Hotspots
Top 5 cold-weather tactics for Chalmette success
My old friend Capt. Mike Gallo (504-259-3474) says the frigid cold water will pile the fish up in the deep holes of Chalmette’s waters — and that’s where they’ll stay until it warms up.[…]
Bass Fishing
10-pounders are hot topic at Toledo Bend
Wouldn’t you know it?
About a month ago, I wrote that January should be a month when unseasonably warm temperatures prompt bass to move into shallower depths at Toledo Bend.[…]
Fishing Hotspots
Troll the bottom for trout
South Louisiana’s speckled trout fishing is the best in the nation. Nowhere in the country can the sheer numbers of speckled trout compare.[…]
News Breaker
Hunter shoots rare white-headed mallard drake
On Jan. 16, Brock Baudoin of New Iberia took friend Brennan Hebert duck hunting at Wax Lake Outlet just before Cajun country was about to enter into the grips of frigid Arctic temperatures. […]
Field Notes
Make Gulp “jerky” for longer lasting lures
Berkley Gulp products have certainly earned a spot in my tackle box.[…]
Inshore Fishing
Marsh Man Masson vid: Strengths, weaknesses of 3 main fishing-line types
Go into a tackle shop, and you’ll see rows and rows of fishing line in various strengths and diameters. Because of that, figuring out what is right for specific situations can be overwhelming.[…]
Bass Fishing
Three patterns to catch False River bass
False River in Pointe Coupee Parish was once one of the premier fisheries in the state, part of the Quality Lakes system stocked with Florida-strain bass. And then in the late 1990s, things just fell apart — siltation and water clarity suffered, and the fishery became a shade of its former glory.[…]