Events & Announcements
2009 Louisiana fall shrimp season to open August 10
The fall inshore shrimp season will open in Shrimp Management Zones 1, 2 and 3 at 6 a.m. on Monday, Aug. 10, 2009.[…]
Month: August 2009
News Breaker
Commission sets 2009-10 duck dates
The Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries (LDWF) is once again recommending a 60-day season be adopted for ducks and coots.[…]
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Ruby Anniversary
“An almost forgotten historic site near Many (the Civil War’s Sabine Breastworks) is on its death bed. It will die slowly as it gives way to progress and surrenders to the waters of the giant Toledo Bend Reservoir.”
— Norman Richardson, The (Shreveport) Times[…]
Columns
Lots to like about PARA Companion
PARA USA is a tough company to love. Being infatuated with a PARA pistol is a lot like being in love with a beautiful but flighty woman. […]
Fishing
Give your boat a makeover
In today’s uncertain economic climate, many boat manufacturers and dealers are reporting lower-than-normal new boat sales. I believe I have discovered a new trend. I call it the boat makeover.[…]
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Reef Ball Madness
The gaudy neon lights of the Treasure Chest Casino dominated the pre-dawn darkness at the Williams Boulevard Boat Launch in Kenner.[…]
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River Wild, Part II
When the Freeman-Custis Expedition explored the Red River in 1806, it became apparent that the river’s odd features hampered its commercial potential.[…]
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Phishing like Phelps
We were working a large cove off Delacroix’s Bay Shallow, when the redfish gave its location away with a swirling turn much too large to be a mullet.[…]
Inshore Fishing
MRGO closure affecting tide more than fish
We didn’t get very far after Captain CT Williams with Big Fish Charters (504-BIGFISH) turned his boat to the southeast as he entered the MRGO from Bayou La Loutre.[…]
Columns
Big bass seem to love Swim Senkos
Gary Yamamoto Custom Baits’ Swim Senko has gotten into the swim of things in the swimbait market in a big way. How big?[…]
Fishing
Redundancy makes a case for redundancy
I seldom pass up an invitation to go fishing, especially from a friend with a new boat. Sometimes the invitation includes an opportunity to solve an electronics problem, but I don’t mind. It usually gives me grist for a column.[…]
Events & Announcements
Tensas River National Wildlife Refuge hosts informational exchange meeting regarding the upcoming 2009-2010 Refuge hunting season.
Tensas River NWR would like to announce an information exchange meeting on the 2009-2010 hunting season for the Refuge.[…]
Ask Captain Paul
Reader looking for route to Sandy Point
Dear Capt. Paul:
How do you get to the Sandy Point rigs from Grand Isle?[…]
Columns
White shrimp drive fall marsh ecosystem
In the marsh, almost everything eats shrimp. And in Louisiana, almost everyone eats shrimp.When I moved to New Orleans 40 years ago, I developed a friendship with my barber, a man named Morris Trippi.[…]
Columns
Flies by night? It’s a Thriller
I will miss Michael Jackson. The King of Pop and I had several things in common: We were both carbon-based life forms, we both breathed oxygen, and we both loved children, but perhaps in different ways.[…]
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Locust Liars
What is it about a place where lots of anglers go to catch fish, and none of them want to admit where they’ve been going? By lots of anglers, I mean so many going there that it looks like a four-lane bank drive-thru on payday afternoon.[…]