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Catch and cook: Toledo Bend crappie
Jared Serigné and his family fished for crappie at Toledo Bend with Bryant “Brother” Martin of Martin’s Guide Service.[…]
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Catch and cook: Lake full of summer specks + more
Most years, speckled trout anglers have to run far to the big bays to catch fish, but Lake Catherine is holding speckled trout.[…]
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Summer schools on the Trestle
Chas Champagne has had a surprisingly strong run on speckled trout and white trout on the bridges. It seemed June was better than the spring.[…]
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Catch and cook: Scooping up shrimp at a flooded highway
In this Outside the Levees video, Jared Serigné went out during Tropical Storm Alberto to scoop up shrimp on the extreme high tide.[…]
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Pool test: Which curl-tail worm is best?
Marsh Man Masson dropped an underwater camera into a pool, and tested an assortment of curl-tail worms to see which perform the best.[…]
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Catch and cook: What can we catch near this structure?
Marsh Man Masson set out to explore the area around a coastal flood-control structure to see what fish he could run across.[…]
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Catch and cook: Giants from our favorite honey hole
In this Outside the Levees video, I fished for big drum with my Uncle Wimpy. Afterwards, I headed home to make smoked fish sandwiches.[…]
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Which will catch more fish in Louisiana’s marsh?
Marsh Man Masson and Chris Macaluso set out to determine whether crawfish or shrimp would catch more fish in the South Louisiana marsh.[…]
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Shallow water specks
In this video, Chas Champagne stays off the bridges and focuses on shoreline fishing. He uses Matrix Shad baits for speckled trout.[…]
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Catch and cook: Loading the boat with bluegill, redear sunfish and stumpknockers
In this Outside the Levees video, Jared Serigné shows a few ways to target panfish, including bluegill, redears and stumpknockers.[…]
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The absolute best pattern for redfish right now
The state is currently seeing a bumper crop of 18- to 22-inch redfish. Here’s a great way to target them that’s almost always successful.[…]
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Trout concentrating on Rigolets points
On this episode of DockSide TV, Chas Champagne hones in on major choke points of Lake Pontchartrain to catch speckled trout.[…]
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Crush panfish with this crazy bait
There can’t possibly be a more fun way to target panfish — like bluegill, crappie, goggleye and redear — than this.[…]
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Specks in the marsh
Marsh Man Masson fished a pattern that is always good this time of year, and it delivered absolutely incessant speckled trout action.[…]
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Catch and cook: Using bluegill to catch big fish
In this Outside the Levees video, Jared Serigné used bluegill as bait to catch bigger fish, like catfish, for supper.[…]
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Catch and cook: Loading up on fish, crabs in Louisiana swamp
Something is always biting in the swampy marshes of South Louisiana, and this week, Marsh Man Masson went out to see what he could catch.[…]