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Reggio milk run – How to catch wintertime speckled trout
According to Merriam-Webster, a “roundup” is a gathering together of people or animals or items. As in a cattle roundup, or a police roundup of suspects.[…]
Speckled Trout
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Purple-and-gold – Winter specks love LSU-colored flies
The Louisiana Outdoor Writers Association maintains the state fish records for each species, both for conventional tackle and fly tackle. And one glance at the fly-rod listings for speckled trout suggests that winter through early spring is the best time to catch trophy trout on a fly.[…]
Field Notes
Cool water speckled trout tactics
With cooler water temperatures starting to settle in, slowing down your presentation is oftentimes key to catching December speckled trout.[…]
Inshore Fishing
Speckled trout stacked up now in lakes around Dularge
Capt. Marty LaCoste had one of his best days ever on the water Wednesday, and considering how many days he fishes, that’s saying something.[…]
Inshore Fishing
Speckled trout biting in Bayou Lafourche
Nice speckled trout have already moved up into Bayou Lafourche, and can be caught under birds with a shrimp imitation under a popping cork, according to a local angler.[…]
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The Seafood Bible: In-laws found a kinship in the kitchen
Collette Weaver and Ron Harris are in-laws and both love to cook. Here are their recipes for Greek shrimp salad and trout meuniére.[…]
Sidebars
Capt. Rykert Toledano’s tips for night specks
While Away Charters’ Rykert Toledano Jr. loves to fish for speckled trout at night during August and September, the hottest time of the year.[…]
Inshore Fishing
Unique green-colored speckled trout caught in Bay St. Louis
The phrase “green trout” has long been a euphemism for marsh bass, but it turns out speckled trout really can turn green — or it seems at least remotely possible, according to a biologist who reviewed a photo posted in the LouisianaSportsman.com reports section.[…]
Inshore Fishing
Speckled trout ‘on fire’ out of Cypremort Point
It took a while for the speckled trout bite to turn on out of Cypremort Point this year, but October’s arrival — along with a couple of pretty nice cool fronts — has finally done the trick.[…]
Inshore Fishing
Top 3 Shell Beach transition trout tips
Transitioning speckled trout are on the proverbial doorstep at Shell Beach, but they haven’t quite yet come on in and committed to interior marshes, according to a local fishing guide.[…]
Inshore Fishing
Trout action ignites inside Delacroix
I just returned from a trip with Capt. Mike Wittich in Delacroix Island, where we put a three-man limit of specks in the boat before noon. […]
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Monster Mash — Catching Lake Pontchartrain’s Halloween trout
“Most people have never seen a 5-pound speckled trout. They call a 2 ½-pound fish 5 pounds. I know that because they do it on my boat all the time. A 5-pound trout is huge!”[…]
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Hooked! Fishing guide shares tips for trout success at Shell Beach, Hopedale
I think the first time I fished with Capt. Tim “Hook” Ursin Jr. was back in the early to mid-1990s. At the time he was running his charter service out of the End of the World Marina on Delacroix Island — and we were both a lot younger then.[…]
Inshore Fishing
Speckled trout haven’t transitioned inside yet near Cocodrie and Dularge
It may be officially fall on the calendar now, but speckled trout haven’t quite gotten the message to head back into interior marshes near Cocodrie and Dularge, according to a fishing guide.[…]
Inshore Fishing
Speckled trout already transitioning back into Lake Pontchartrain
Speckled trout are already starting to make their return trip back into Lake Pontchartrain, and this weekend’s expected cool front should only improve fishing conditions as fall approaches and summer’s heat slowly fades away, according to a fishing guide.[…]
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Night games — How to catch Delacroix trout after the dark
This Delacroix guide and his two buddies prefer to do their speckled trout fishing after the sun sets — when the crowds have left for home.[…]