Unless their customers request the use of artificial lures, the Bellangers habitually use live bait for speckled trout. They bring live shrimp and live croakers with them on every trip.[…]
Arthur Bellanger and his wife Anna Lee are officially the longest-married couple on Grand Isle. Now 83 years old, Arthur first appeared on the island “as a kid, building camps with my daddy.”[…]
H&M Fishing Charters (985-258-3632) has its roots in a time that predated inshore fishing chartes, Jules Bellanger said.[…]
Although a demure grub — maybe a little split tail or curly tail job — is the common choice for spinnerbait trailers, don’t hesitate to put some junk in the trunk.[…]
“I’d been fishing that exact same spot faithfully for several weeks, literally every single day,” Weiss said. “I would show up early and anchor my boat in the same spot and throw out a big live shrimp or a croaker. […]
The regulations for recreational shrimping in Louisiana can be found at www.wlf.louisiana.gov or in the 2013 Louisiana Fishing Regulations.[…]
Another national wildlife refuge that is an absolute must for canoe and kayak anglers is Lacassine. As in years past, the refuge’s pool that is reserved for non-motorized boats has produced monster bass this spring.[…]
Few people utilize a float plan, plain and simple. But they are important to prevent a mishap from becoming dangerous.[…]
A section of Louisiana’s coastal wetlands is about to get a major shot in the arm.[…]
If there’s one underlying assumption that’s been used to justify the $50 billion cost of Louisiana’s Coastal Master Plan, it’s this: We actually have a chance to prevent Southeast Louisiana from drowning in the Gulf because the Mississippi River carries the mud and sand necessary to keep pace with sea-level rise.[…]
Planned since 2004, the study lately has taken on new urgency, as a result of evolving insights into the river’s capacity.[…]
While the study of river hydrodynamics was first proposed in 2004, it wasn’t funded until 2011. So the scientists working on the 2012 edition of the master plan put together preliminary planning models that prepared the way for the more-detailed operating models to be developed when the latest data on the lower river became available. That work was cheered in peer reviews, even though it was based on river data that, in some cases, were decades old, researchers said.[…]
Understanding the overall demands on the river is critical to the master plan because the river must also serve other important needs.[…]
The goal of the research, he said, was to see if the conventional scientific wisdom about how much sediment the river carries in its upstream reaches holds true on its last leg to the Gulf.[…]
With only one opposing vote out of 144, the Legislature decided, during the final hours of its regular session’s last day, that the Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries should pay $2 million for various properties already owned by the state to expand existing wildlife management areas and refuges, among other purposes.[…]
Even though he’s still a young man, it’s a pretty safe bet Aaron Cortez will never get a bigger birthday present than the one he caught midday Wednesday out of Venice.[…]