This goes down as one of my very best summers — ever.
June came in with intense heat and sweltering humidity, and an abundance of speckled trout. At least it did where I was fishing — in and around Bay Eloi.[…]
Bass fishing in temperatures exceeding 100 degrees is not for the faint of heart.[…]
The summer heat is on, and that means specks are patrolling the beaches in search of easy meals.[…]
Change is inevitable when new administrations come into power. So it’s no surprise that Charlie Melancon, appointed head of the Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries by Gov. John Bel Edwards, is doing things differently than his predecessor.[…]
“Ugh; It looks like a brain, man,” my fishing partner said, peering into the swampy water and gingerly poking a gelatinous-looking blob with a boat paddle.[…]
Aggressive, abundant and readily available to those willing to enter the warm summer surf — speckled trout present the perfect wade-fishing target.[…]
We could be launching into a lake on Mars for all that most Louisianans would know about this place. There was enough daylight at the ramp to reveal that every vehicle already on the lot carried Texas license plates. […]
Louisiana’s Brett Preuett is living the dream. Or should we say, “Fishing the dream.”[…]
Judge Elizabeth Jones of the 20th Judicial District Court in East and West Feliciana parishes ordered two poachers to pay a total of $38,776 for deer hunting violations that occurred last February, according to a press release from the Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries.[…]
Here are final results from the 2016 International Grand Isle Tarpon Rodeo held this past weekend out of Sand Dollar Marina. […]
Take it from a fisherman who got married on the water at one of his favorite fishing spots on Vermilion Bay: Many of the piers and wharves in front of the camps at Cypremort Point offer potential honey holes for speckled trout.[…]
Here are final results from the 18th annual Faux Pas Lodge Rodeo held this past weekend out of Venice Marina.[…]
Agents with the Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries worked two separate boating accidents that claimed the life of a 5-year-old boy near Bourg and a 44-year-old man near Grand Isle.[…]