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Great Wall is amazing The Great Wall is almost 2 miles long and runs across the St. Bernard marsh, blocking the MRGO (Mississippi River Gulf Outlet, or Ship Channel), Bayou Bienvenue and the ICW (Intracoastal Waterway). Gates are under construction at the ICW and Bayou Bienvenue and both are passable, but the MRGO has been decommissioned — it is completely blocked off and no gate of any kind will be installed. The Wall is a gigantic surge barrier to provide St. Bernard Parish, the Lower Ninth Ward and New Orleans East the 100-year storm risk reduction protection promised by the US Government, via the Corps of Engineers. It is a monumental project that includes shoring up and heightening levees and constructing massive lift and swing gates, and is the largest project ever undertaken by the Corps of Engineers in its history. MORE ... |
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Don’t lose your cool — or your lure About the only thing on a lake’s bottom that never gets tired of biting is the bottom itself. Particularly with moving “reaction” lures like crankbaits, snags are practically an assumption. Crankbaits attract fish because they cover water quickly to find those reaction strikes, but this swift motion leaves little time to avoid the entanglement of running headlong into brush, logs or rocky crevices. MORE ... |
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A few considerations Anglers often try idling around a snag to try and free their bait from different angles. If this fails and you have to use a lure knocker, make sure to return to the same angle as the initial snag. This is a simple task if you’re dealing with a log or laydown in shallow water. When you can’t see the bottom, note your compass heading or use a shoreline object for line-of-sight reference. MORE ... |
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Wind and tide two main variables One of the most important considerations for heading to fish the Caernarvon area is just how quickly conditions can change. The main thing anglers have to watch out for, according to Covington-based tournament angler Jason Pittman, is a strong north wind. MORE ... |
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Hit the high-percentage spots One of the things that BASS Elite Series professional angler Clark Reehm kept pointing out over and over as he discussed bass fishing around Delacroix was fishing what he called high-percentage places. MORE ... |
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Red Storm It is your classic good-news/bad-news tale. The good news is there are more red snapper around the oil rigs in the northern Gulf of Mexico today than ever before, and they are much bigger than they have ever been. The bad news is the limit on red snapper remains at two per angler per day, and the season has been cut to just 49 days. MORE ... |
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Bayou Bienvenue is BACK! Everybody wondered if the fishing action around Bayou Bienvenue could ever recover. Like so many other fishing areas in Southeast Louisiana, Bayou Bienvenue was adversely affected by the BP oil spill and the opening of the Bonnet Carre spillway. Two big whammies of that magnitude hitting back-to-back were enough to put most fisheries on life support. And as if that weren’t enough, Bayou Bienvenue faced more uncertainty than any other area because of the dam built across the MRGO in Chalmette, and the closure of Seabrook. MORE ... |
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Crankbait Campaign Trail This one leans to the left; that one goes far right. Here’s one that keeps a centrist course. MORE ... |
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Closing the Gap A huge gap exists between amateurs and professionals in most sports. MORE ... |
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Do we have a tiger by the tail? Louisiana is a shrimp-crazy state. Until being battered by cheaper imports, shrimp fisheries were the backbone of the economies of many coastal communities. The value of the fishery dwarfed the others. MORE ... |
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Construction of second artificial reef in Lake Pontchartrain begins Construction of a new Lake Pontchartrain artificial reef built from debris from the old Interstate 10 Twin Span bridges that were damaged during Hurricane Katrina was begun last week (Dec. 21), with the pile of concrete being named after a well-known lake guide and his wife. The four-acre reef, named the “Dudley and Kim Vandenborre Reef,” was spearheaded by the the Coastal Conservation Association of Louisiana with the cooperation of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Services, the state Department of Transportation and the Department of Wildlife and Fisheries. MORE ... |
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Delacroix trout smackdown continues It was drizzling when I stepped out of my truck at Sweetwater Marina early Monday (Dec. 5), the first signs of a front that was barreling through the state. I just shook my head, wriggled into my rain suit and headed to meet the two guys I’d be fishing with that morning. I had told Scott Walker that I didn’t want to waste a day out of the office because I was slammed, and he had promised me it wouldn’t take long to fill our limits of speckled trout. His confidence was more than braggadocio: I was back at the dock barely more than two hours later, loading up an ice chest full of speckled trout and heading back to the office. MORE ... |
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