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Chris Macaluso caught several specks fishing the Caminada Pass pier last May during a falling tide. 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.
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Chris Holmes caught this chunky trout near a point on the backside of Grand Isle. 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.
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Barataria Bay is very susceptible to wind, but when it’s calm, trout fishing is a piece of cake in May. Vicki Holmes and Capt. Danny Wray found fast action last May near Fifi Island. 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.
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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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Reader offers advice
Dear Capt. Paul: I recently wrote to you about the data card on my Garmin 182c not reading, and you posted the article in the April Louisiana Sportsman magazine. I am writing today to give you the results.
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Many oxbow lakes have protected water ideal for fly anglers who fish from canoes and kayaks. Tippets
Speckled trout action should be gangbusters this month after a colder than normal spring. There was plenty of clear water in April and that favors topwater action. Perch-float poppers or Bob’s Bangers in green/white or chartreuse, foil pencil poppers in gold or silver, or Skipping Bugs in red/white worked great this month last year.
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Spawning goggle-eye males develop brilliant colors and bright red eyes. 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.
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In spite of the size they can grow to, slick perch are better known as trotline bait than as a food fish in Louisiana. Slick Perch/Slicks
This species, with the book name of “green sunfish,” is one of the most interesting of Louisiana’s bream species.
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Compared to other bream, goggle-eyes have huge mouths. 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.
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Bream hybrids are quite common in nature. This one appears to be a bluegill and dollar sunfish cross. 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.
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This well-worn map of Kincaid Lake shows its underwater roads and railroad. Kincaid Lake
Kincaid Lake is about 10 miles west of Alexandria south of Highway 28 West. It lies partially within Kisatchie National Forest.
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The longear sunfish and dollar sunfish are so similar that most fishermen cannot separate them. Shown here is a dollar sunfish. Sunperch
Fishermen call two species of bream “sunperch:” the longear sunfish and the dollar sunfish. Both are brilliantly jewel-like in coloration, plastered in red-oranges and yellows and covered with turquoise reticulations.
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