Inshore Fishing
Houma Nation still going strong
Capt. Chad Billiot is a member of the United Houma Nation, a Native American tribe that counts more than 10,000 Americans among its members, according to the most-recent census.[…]
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Inshore Fishing
Empire fishing options abound when winds are light or out of the east
During two of the last three fishing seasons, the Empire area has been the launch pad for a delightful little trip to hell.[…]
Inshore Fishing
Don’t mess yourself up when fishing points
Capt. Danny Wray would probably close up shop and become a golfer if all the points on the backside of Grand Isle were to suddenly disappear.[…]
Inshore Fishing
No boat? No problem at Grand Isle
Chris Macaluso is a very good speckled-trout fisherman, but that probably wouldn’t be the case if his dad hadn’t toted him along to Grand Isle during at least one summer weekend a year.[…]
Inshore Fishing
Don’t ignore Grand Isle’s beach when conditions are nice
When nature loses her puff down around Grand Isle during late April and early May, Capt. Vernon Ledoux knows that the big trout come out to play.[…]
Freshwater Fishing
What a mouth!
The goggle-eye is, with the possible exception of a spawning bull bluegill, the prettiest of the bream clan. Males are especially beautiful, with a body mottled with bright orange and olive and a bright red spot behind each gill cover and at the rear base of the dorsal fin.[…]
Freshwater Fishing
Goggle-eyes
This large species of bream is properly called a “warmouth.” Its large mouth —larger than any other species of bream — and its more-elongated body shape have led some people (who should know better) to believe that they are hybrids between bluegills and bass.[…]
Freshwater Fishing
Slick Perch/Slicks
This species, with the book name of “green sunfish,” is one of the most interesting of Louisiana’s bream species.[…]
Freshwater Fishing
Bream hybrids
Sunfish hybridize more than any other family of freshwater or saltwater fish. Often a successful day will yield 200 bream, and it’s a rare day when at least one hybrid between species isn’t in the bunch.[…]
Fishing Tournaments
House backs high-school bass fishing
The House Education Committee unanimously approved a resolution Tuesday that could lead to the establishment of competitive bass-fishing tournaments for Louisiana’s high schools.[…]
Inshore Fishing
Erosion gobbles up Plaquemines Parish hotspots
It’s a busy morning off the floor of the state House of Representatives, where lobbyists and reporters are bird-dogging lawmakers, looking for votes and quotes. Still new to freshman Rep. Chris Leopold, a Republican from Belle Chasse whose district follows the winding Mississippi River well below Venice, the pace and stress of ongoing budget hearings are beginning to show.[…]
Columns
A turkey for dad
When you hear “Phfffffftt,” you know a strutting tom is close and it is time to get ready.[…]
News Breaker
Bill banning possession of red snapper moves forward in state Legislature
The drive by a state senator to outlaw the possession of Gulf red snapper for recreational and commercial fishermen, as well as everyone else in Louisiana, cleared its first hurdle Wednesday, and the debate now swims to the full Senate for further consideration.[…]
General
State budget includes LDWF purchase of Office of State Lands properties
Among the contingencies propping up Gov. Bobby Jindal’s budget proposal is a unique and possibly unprecedented land deal involving the state selling properties at a significant markup to, well, itself. That’s the latest twist in the winding debate over Jindal’s proposed $24.7 billion budget, which is short on revenues by about $1.3 billion.[…]
Inshore Fishing
Lake Pontchartrain Monster Hunt
Sportsman TV teamed up with Captain Scott Walker of Get U Some Fishing Charters on a foggy day to find big fish that lurk below the surface of Lake Pontchartrain, New Orleans Louisiana.[…]
Contents
Taming Timbalier
It’s axiomatic that you never leave feeding fish to find feeding fish.[…]