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How to make a butterfly bait for snapper
Butterfly baits are highly effective for targeting large bottom fish such as groupers and large red snappers. Here are the steps to cut your own.[…]
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Offshore Fishing
Frekey’s snapper gear
Flipping bait to mangrove snappers just beneath the water’s surface is an entirely different game than dredging their red snapper cousins up from the deep.[…]
Offshore Fishing
Offshore fishing tip of the day
Fishing without eye protection is a pain, especially in the high-glare offshore environment. But keeping sunglasses clean is the devil.[…]
Offshore Fishing
Why fish offshore of Louisiana?
Over a ritual pretrip supper with relatives at Leeville Seafood Restaurant in Leeville, Ricky Ruffin talked about his love affair with Louisiana fishing and cooking.[…]
Inshore Fishing
Still plenty trout, redfish inside during June
For most anglers, Shell Beach is a pretty good hike. If you make the run, you want to be able to catch fish in different wind scenarios. […]
Inshore Fishing
Live-bait trout-fishing tips
“If I don’t have live bait, I go home,” Tony Bruce said. “I’ve fished with Ed Sexton, who is excellent with plastic, and rather than fish, I just watched him fish.[…]
Inshore Fishing
Campo’s Marina has best live shrimp, guide says
Capt. Mark Munson has a successful charter fishing operation out of Shell Beach. And every morning he has a charter, Munson idles his boat down to a marina to get live shrimp.[…]
Inshore Fishing
How Tony Bruce caught the fever
Tony Bruce has done a lot of things in his 63 years. He was a school teacher and coach, owned an offshore oil-field boat rental business and developed property in Zachary for the Copper Mill Golf Course. […]
Inshore Fishing
The No. 1 way to hook live shrimp
Capt. Mark Munson doesn’t even carry plastics on his boat. […]
Inshore Fishing
Best trophy trout fishing tips
Fishing offshore rigs for speckled trout is different than what most anglers experience fishing in marshes, lakes and bays.[…]
Inshore Fishing
Top trout fishing equipment
Besides Craig Hunt, who used level wind bass tackle, all three Bruce men used medium-heavy spinning tackle for their live bait fishing.[…]
Inshore Fishing
June means trout in Black Bay
The Delacroix fishing outlook is far better this year than in 2015, said Capt. Chad Dufrene (985-637-6357). […]
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Midnight run — Tips for frogging in the Manchac Swamp WMA swamps
“Wind from the WEST!” Artie yelled, waving his arms crazily and looking around. “Fish bite BEST! Who on earth came up with DAT?”[…]
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Grand Isle is grand — Guide’s tips for more specks, reds
June means it’s time to head to Grand Isle for all the trout and redfish action you can handle. Find out how this veteran guide stays on fish all summer.[…]
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Blue-water takedown – Tips for landing mangrove snapper
The cluster of bananas sat forlornly on top of the dock piling.
Fifteen minutes earlier, the five deep-sea charter fishermen were handing their personal items to the two deck hands — Billy Joe Palmisano and Joseph Cantrelle — for stowing.[…]
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The long haul — Go to Black Bay, Chandeleur Sound for lunker trout
You’re on your lunch break from work sitting in the A/C, but in the back of your mind you know it would be more enjoyable out in the heat catching speckled trout, like all of the guides are doing.[…]