Fishing
CCA STAR tournament winner Bootsie Toups
Ulysse “Bootsie” Toups won the Southeast Division with a 5.22-pound speckled trout he weighed in at Grand Isle’s Bridge Side Marina.[…]
Year: 2013
Fishing
CCA STAR tournament winner Kevin Horton
Kevin Horton of Avery Island caught his monster while fishing western Vermilion Bay with friend Kenny Benoit on Aug. 17. Horton’s trophy trout measured 28 inches, and pulled the scales to 7.31 pounds.[…]
Inshore Fishing
Jules Bellanger’s tips for Grand Isle speckled trout
• Hire a guide to learn the area the first time you fish it.[…]
Inshore Fishing
Pat Bellanger’s tips for Grand Isle trout
• People new to the island should fish the beach and the rocks (breakwaters on the Gulf side of the island). Then venture farther from the island if the weather is good. A variety of fish can be caught at the rocks.[…]
Inshore Fishing
Best tackle and tactics for Grand Isle speckled trout fishing
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.[…]
Inshore Fishing
H&M Fishing Charters is a family affair
H&M Fishing Charters (985-258-3632) has its roots in a time that predated inshore fishing chartes, Jules Bellanger said.[…]
News Breaker
Wetlands conservation grant to fund Terrebonne Parish project
A section of Louisiana’s coastal wetlands is about to get a major shot in the arm.[…]
Coastal Projects
Study to assess Mississippi River sediment load
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.[…]
Coastal Projects
Sediment capacity lowered
Planned since 2004, the study lately has taken on new urgency, as a result of evolving insights into the river’s capacity.[…]
Coastal Projects
Funding lags research
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.[…]
Coastal Projects
Charting differences downriver
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.[…]
Coastal Projects
‘Budgeting’ overall demands on river
Understanding the overall demands on the river is critical to the master plan because the river must also serve other important needs.[…]
General
LDWF to pay $2 million for property already owned by state after last-minute budget deal
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.[…]
News Breaker
Monster yellowfin landed from 24-foot bay boat
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.[…]
News Breaker
300-pound mako jumps into shark-fishing boat
A pair of New Jersey anglers got more than they were looking recently when a 300-pound mako shark leaped into their boat while they were, well, shark fishing. […]
Columns
Vudu Shrimp
Can an artificial lure — a soft plastic — outfish a natural creature? That day has arrived and it’s like magic, hence lure’s name, thanks to Ken Chaumont of Lacassine.[…]