Speckled Trout
Wade-fishing season provides access to big Calcasieu Lake trout
The few days before the turn of the New Year, Big Lake’s Capt. Bruce Baugh was busy with some great speckled trout.[…]
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Inshore Fishing
Calcasieu Lake redfish still active even when cold winds of winter blow
Gerard Caswell was looking forward to his first speckled trout trip to Big Lake for the New Year.[…]
Inshore Fishing
Slow your bait down to catch sluggish specks
There is no question speckled trout have to eat during the winter, but that doesn’t mean they eat the same way they do during the summer.[…]
Inshore Fishing
Get light baits deep quickly with fluorocarbon line
As much as some folks have settled on braided line for much of their saltwater fishing, Nick Poe said a guy fishing deep in Lake Charles and Prien Lake may have a tough time getting down to the trout.[…]
Inshore Fishing
Sweet tea-looking water up north still salty
Anglers used to fishing the near Baffin Bay-looking water of Calcasieu Lake might be surprised to find Breton Sound-looking water the father they venture into the city limits of Lake Charles.[…]
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City Limits — Lake Charles, Lake Prien full of winter speckled trout
Capt. Nick Poe just knew back in June he would be having one of the most hellacious fall and winter fishing seasons he had ever experienced on the Calcasieu estuary.[…]
Waterfowl & Duck Hunting
Ducks falling into Cameron Parish marshes as cold fronts push through state
Operating a boat through a midnight fog Friday night ( Nov. 9) was worth it to reach a remote hunting lease off of Terrebonne Parish’s Lost Lake.[…]
Inshore Fishing
Big Lake flounder are lining ship channel
Capt. Paul Davidson Jr. knew exactly where to go last week on Big Lake. Slowing down the boat, he neared a break in the nearby ship channel during an outgoing tide.[…]
Hunting
Missing hunter located on Sabine Island WMA
A 74-year-old Vinton hunter who became turned around while hunting on Sabine Island Wildlife Management Area was found alive early this morning (Nov. 6), the Louisiana Department of Wildlife & Fisheries reported.[…]
Deer of the Year
Leesville meat hunter takes 147-inch trophy
They say a picture is worth a thousand words.
That’s definitely the case for Johnny Gallion, who for the better part of two months, had been spotting a 10-point buck on a trail camera he set up on a small tract of land he hunts near Leesville.[…]
Inshore Fishing
Big Lake reds schooling up, making for easy fishing
These were rather big “school” reds. Slot reds in the upper limits, really![…]
Freshwater Fishing
Missing fishermen safe found south of Lake Arthur
Two boaters who failed to return home yesterday from a trip in the Grand Lake area south of Lake Arthur were found today after a 12-hour search, the Louisiana Department of Wildlife & Fisheries reported.[…]
News Breaker
Two Vermilion Parish men guilty of goose-hunting violations
Two Vermilion Parish men admitted last week that they violated several goose-hunting regulations last January, the Louisiana Department of Wildlife & Fisheries reportd.[…]
Deer Hunting
Lake Charles man found dead in apparent hunting accident
A 60-year-old Lake Charles man was found dead in woods near Reeves in what the Louisiana Department of Wildlife & Fisheries said was an apparent fatal hunting accident, the agency reported today (Oct. 19).[…]
Cobia
Cobia thick south of Cameron Parish
Kaplan’s Skip Floyd launched and headed south from the Cameron Jetties, running 15 miles out to the marker buoys for cobia.[…]
Inshore Fishing
Flounder migration sets up easy fishing on Big Lake
It’s the time of the year again for some scrumptious, tasty slabs of fillets – and lots of them![…]