Drive or ride in any bass boat above the Tropic of Cancer late in December, particularly in coastal Louisiana’s semi-tropical region, and there still is a reasonable chance you’ll feel like you’ve gotten frost bite when attempting to catch a bass. […]
Lake Pontchartrain is legendary for its fall run of speckled trout. With miles and miles of bridge structures and some artificial reefs, there’s no shortage of locations to get on a hot bite.[…]
“On days with wind, say a brisk north wind blowing 15 to 20 mph, I’ll fly out here and land in the cove, and we’ll have Breton Island all to ourselves,” Bourgeois said. “Boats won’t make that run from any port in those winds and seas.[…]
“I’ll fish Gosier two days after a front, when we have a bluebird sky and very little wind,” Bourgeois said. “The cooler November weather means you don’t have to start fishing as early in the mornings, and between 9 a.m. and 2 p.m. is perfect for fishing reds on the flats at Gosier.[…]
“This island is just a long, beautiful stretch of shells, about a mile long,” Bourgeois said. “Once you step off the island into the water, the depth drops off fast and steep, so we don’t even wade in the water here.[…]
On the west side of the Mississippi River, Bourgeois has many options, with some good walkable islands with either shells or a hard sand bottom scattered from Barataria Bay to Timbalier Bay.[…]
The Biologist, Christian Winslow, has some tips for prospective hunters:[…]
To say you’re hoping for a hurricane to blow through South Louisiana just to make the fishing better would be a tad bit insensitive.[…]
The Ghost Minnow we used to catch trout on this trip was the same one Capt. James Wilson used to put together 30 straight limits of speckled trout.[…]
The particular area that produced all these limits of speckled trout for Capt. James Wilson is a part of the Clovelly Oil Field. The canal that comes out in the middle of Little Lake is a part of it, but the other part, where we fished, is the south end by Brusle.[…]
Two brothers whose family owns Serigne’s Marina in Delacroix were convicted yesterday of aggravated rape, NOLA.com reported.[…]
You’ve heard of situations described as “win-win-win.” How about one that’s “Win-Wynn-when?”[…]
“Now, during most of the day,” my cousin-in-law Al frowned, “the big bucks hole up in this thick stuff. This timber sure makes for tough hunting at times!”[…]
I knew this would probably be my last Louisiana duck hunt.
The Sirens Ulysses had to deal with had nothing on the Call of the Grandchildren: The wife was putting on serious pressure to move to Colorado.[…]
I couldn’t figure out why my son wasn’t making a cast.
It was obvious where the fish were. The gulls dive bombing nervous shrimp was a dead give-away.[…]
Did you ever go to the circus when you were a kid? There really wasn’t anything else quite like it.[…]