Inshore Fishing
Things to know before you go to Breton Island
Breton Island is a National Wildlife Refuge and home to a huge population of seabirds.[…]
Southeast LA
Events & Announcements
Ports Eads Marina reopens
Slip space is now available at the all-new Port Eads Marina Facility on South Pass at the southernmost tip of Louisiana, about 21 miles south of Venice.[…]
Ask Captain Paul
The Freeport Sulphur Mine near Garden Island Bay
Dear Capt. Paul:
What are the coordinates of where the Freeport sulphur facility used to be on Garden Island Bay? What is the name of the pass they were on: Southwest or South pass?[…]
Bass Fishing
The jewel in the city
I was in the heart of the urban jungle.
It was 4:30 in the morning.[…]
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The Cajun and the Beast — How to catch snapping turtles
The huge, scaly beast — its massive body partially supported by the water — swim-crawled its way along the soft, mucky bottom. Its bear-like, long, black claws stirred up clouds of half-decayed vegetation and silt.[…]
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Small-boat DuLarge — How to catch reds, specks with a mud boat
Marty LaCoste likes things a little quiet.
According to my son, it’s so he can whisper to the fish exactly what he wants them to do.[…]
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Bream busting in Boeuf — Tactics for bream fishing in Lake Boeuf
One hundred-thirty years of experience.
That’s what my friend Dirk Matherne, no spring chicken himself at 58, had fixed me up with. It was a little intimidating, listening to the two silver-maned old lions comparing notes with Mike Adams, a Raceland dentist and Lake Boeuf lover. […]
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Wetland Warriors — Battling coastal erosion by hunting nutria
“The coyotes ate all the rabbits! The ducks got short-stopped! And the squirrels all live in woods leased by deer clubs who hate squirrel hunters! So how’s a kid supposed to scratch his hunting itch nowadays?” […]
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Barrier Bulls — How to catch bull redfish at Breton Island
So, I’m at this media event, at Theophile Bourgeois’ lodge in Lafitte. Bourgeois invited all his sponsors and a few media guys to spend a couple nights at his place, where he’d provide food and lodging, give us all a chance to mingle and talk shop, and then pile us into a fleet of bay boats to see if we could do more than talk the talk.[…]
Inshore Fishing
Baby nutria the newest live bait for redfish?
There may be a hot, new live bait for catching redfish along the Mississippi and Louisiana coasts — young, tender nutria.[…]
Inshore Fishing
Sheepshead make great table fare
I’d venture that a rig-caught winter sheepshead actually beats a deep marsh redfish as table fare. The saltier the water, the better tasting the fish.[…]
Inshore Fishing
How to prepare fish
The key to filleting sheepshead is using a sturdy-bladed boning knife and cutting over and around the thick rib bones by going into the fish from the top rather than from behind the gills.[…]
Ask Captain Paul
Pinpointing Wreck Bay
Dear Capt. Paul:
Where is Wreck Bay out of Point a la Hache? What are the coordinates for the bay? I can’t seem to find it on my map.[…]
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February Fishing Fix — Wintertime trout fishing hot at this Pointe aux Chenes hotspot
February can be a tough month for coastal anglers. Frequent fronts, blustery winds and low water conditions can definitely be a challenge, even to the most experienced among us — and the wet, bone-chilling cold doesn’t exactly invite us to go outside and play on the water.[…]
Features
Winter Retreat — Delacroix’s Oak River provides great trout fishing
Head to Delacroix’s Oak River this month for boatloads of specks — even if cold weather and high winds make you think about staying home.[…]
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Black Bay Jailbreak — Fishing tips for sheepshead
Doc’s spanking-new bay boat, a 24-footer, was primed for its maiden voyage. Doc himself seemed uncharacteristically pumped for the occasion; lately his fishing had seemed more perfunctory than the traditional obsession we all recalled while growing up together.[…]