Inshore Fishing
Causeway Speckled Trout Geography
To first-time anglers fishing the twin Causeway Bridges, the spans seem to stretch from here to eternity in both directions. They are long — 24 miles long — and everything seems the same.[…]
Speckled Trout
Inshore Fishing
Blood on the Border: Tips for catching big speckled trout on the lower Sabine River
No Man’s Land!
It has a romantic ring to it.[…]
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Blood on the Border: Tips for catching big speckled trout on the lower Sabine River
No Man’s Land!
It has a romantic ring to it.[…]
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Calcasieu Heat: Tips for Big Lake speckled trout success
Ten-year-old Phillip Rue was scrunched up on the bow seat of the boat, torquing the handle of the spinning reel ferociously.[…]
Inshore Fishing
Rue’s speckled trout rig
Erik Rue’s live-bait rig is simplicity itself.
It consists of a 6-foot length of 20- or 25-pound-test monofilament or fluorocarbon. Monofilament is a little softer and easier to deal with, but fluorocarbon is more abrasion resistant when fishing around the rocks.[…]
Inshore Fishing
Calcasieu Heat: Tips for Big Lake speckled trout success
Ten-year-old Phillip Rue was scrunched up on the bow seat of the boat, torquing the handle of the spinning reel ferociously.[…]
Inshore Fishing
Fishing hot for Grand Isle Speckled Trout Rodeo
The annual Grand Isle Speckled Trout Rodeo is set for May 25-27, and there’s no better place such an event right now. Setting out from Bridgeside Marina in any direction will land you on fat and hungry trout.[…]
Inshore Fishing
No-name duo takes two big-money speckled trout tournaments
It would be tough to find a hotter fishing team in America right now than Marcus Rieffel and Jim Tumey.[…]
Columns
Speckled trout myths
The popularity of speckled trout in Louisiana eclipses that of any other saltwater species, perhaps by several fold. We love to catch them, and we love to eat them.[…]
Inshore Fishing
Cleaning speckled trout
Speckled and white trout are soft-boned and delicate-fleshed fish.[…]
Inshore Fishing
Delacroix marshes full of mixed-size speckled trout
The recent cool weather has sent the signal to speckled trout that it’s time to hunker down in the interior marshes, and that’s exactly what’s going on in Delacroix.[…]
Inshore Fishing
Seventy-eight fish tagged during Louisiana Saltwater Series Speckled Trout Tournament
Despite what Mother Nature had planned, 78 trout were caught and tagged during last weekend’s inaugural Louisiana Saltwater Series Fall Trout Tournament on Lake Pontchartrain, the Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries announced.[…]
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Rigolets bridge loaded with fat speckled trout
“Damn, there’s Eric!”
The anglers in the approaching boat sounded a little perturbed about having been beaten by an earlier bird. And as any veteran angler knows, driving to your hole only to find another boat already sitting there is one of the most sinking feelings in all of fishing.[…]
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Trio has speckled trout success on east side of Mississippi River
I’ve got to admit that when Allen Dupont called to tell me to meet him and his two fishing buddies at Breton Sound Marina at 4:30 a.m., I thought that we would sit around and shoot the bull until it got light enough to run.[…]
Inshore Fishing
Geaux Fish tournament features big prizes for catching tagged speckled trout
Anglers can win up to $275,000 in cash and prizes during the Geaux Fish tournament being held along the entire Louisiana coast July 2 through Sept. 5. And there’s absolutely no cost to enter.
The tournament, sponsored by BP and the Louisiana Charter Boat Association, will feature prizes for anglers catching 50 specially tagged speckled trout, which will be released in waters stretching from Breton Sound to Lake Calcasieu.
One of the fish is tagged as the grand prize, and is worth up to $250,000.[…]
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Lake Pelto loaded with spring speckled trout
We all know what it is to crave something. Hot boiled crawfish, ice cold watermelon, that first cup of coffee in the morning — we all have these appetites that arise and then long to be satisfied.[…]