Offshore Fishing
Tis the season
Speckled trout fishing offshore of Vermilion Bay is a seasonal business, primarily because of the fickle behavior of the Atchafalaya River.[…]
Month: July 2012
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Outa Sight
Everywhere I go, I seem to bump into Casey McLaurin, director of operations for Acadiana Outfitters, a high-end specialty outdoor retailer located on the outskirts of New Iberia. Casey loves to fish for speckled trout and he loves to duck hunt, so our talk always turns to one of the two subjects.[…]
Inshore Fishing
Bait and tackle
What tackle to use on the bridge is a matter of personal choice. Most people use medium-action spinning or baitcasting rigs, but fly rods and long crappie jigging poles are also popular.[…]
Fishing
Plano Alabama Rig Box
Alabama and other umbrella-style bass fishing rigs have earned a permanent place among many bass fishermen’s tackle arsenals, but the wire-frame contraptions don’t always fit into traditional tackle boxes.[…]
General
LifeProof iPhone Case
Waterproof, dustproof, snowproof and shockproof, the LifeProof Case for the Apple iPhone 4/4S is the only such iPhone case on the market that lets users take advantage of every innovative feature of the phone without any restrictions.[…]
Fishing
Alabama Rig II
Picking up where the Alabama Rig left off, the Alabama Rig II features heavier wires and hardware to handle larger saltwater species.[…]
Offshore Fishing
Live bait life support
Live bait is considered critical for success by the anglers. Whether croakers, cocahoe minnows or mullet are used, live bait must, by definition, be kept alive to be used.[…]
Bass Fishing
Slow down for more summer bass
When largemouth bass play hard to get, it’s time to pull out the clichéd yet profoundly applicable allusion of the tortoise and the hare.[…]
Inshore Fishing
GPS locations of Lake Pontchartrain artificial reefs
GPS locations of Lake Pontchartrain artificial reefs[…]
Inshore Fishing
How to build your own sliding-cork rig
While most tackle shops have sliding-cork rigs already package, it’s easy to make your own.[…]
Inshore Fishing
Get the Lake Pontchartrain map to find artificial reefs
If you are serious about fishing and enjoying the many recreational opportunities of Lake Pontchartrain, you really need to buy the Lake Pontchartrain Basin Foundation’s Fishing and Recreation Guide.[…]
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Reef runner: Fishing the Lake Pontchartrain reefs is a guarantee
I watched what seemed to be an unending parade of barges filled with mountains of crushed concrete arrive and dump their contents onto the lake floor to create a five-acre artificial reef, all from the back porch of my home on Lake Pontchartrain’s Northshore.[…]
Freshwater Fishing
Drift-fishing is a Cross Lake standard
Although he prefers fishing in a downpour, Charles Citrano doesn’t mind blending in with everybody else and doing a little drift-fishing for catfish every now and then.[…]
Freshwater Fishing
Veteran angler catching fewer small catfish
Charles Citrano has lived on Cross Lake for the last 15 years, but he estimates that over his 71 years of life he’s spent as much time on Cross Lake as he has at work.[…]
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Mad as a Hatter
Some people think Charles Citrano is just a little bit crazy. But the way he sees it, he’s just somebody who always has catfish fillets in his freezer.[…]
Freshwater Fishing
Cross Lake visitors can gather at online community
After he started visiting Cross Lake on a regular basis about two years ago, Seth Winterer quickly discovered there wasn’t a whole lot of information about the lake on the internet.[…]