Anyone who tows a boat trailer often enough either has, or will, experience issuess with the trailer’s lights. Either one turn signal doesn’t work, the brake lights don’t work, they work intermittently, or they show no signs of life at all. A number of factors could be the problem, and more often than not, one specific culprit is to blame.[…]
Keeping fishing reels in good working order is essential for saltwater anglers, and the best way to do that is to rinse them thoroughly with fresh water after every saltwater fishing trip. And this should be accomplished as soon as possible. […]
Twelve years and 13 tournaments later, PaddlePalooza XIII proves kayak tournaments in South Louisiana are the real deal.[…]
June is typically a banner month for speckled trout on Grand Isle, but don’t plan on enjoying the island life and sleeping in if you intend on catching specks this month.[…]
Summertime rains can really ruin a fishing trip, especially when your lake of choice collects water from a large drainage area.[…]
Whether the fish you’re trying to keep healthy are in the bait tank or in the livewell, there are several tricks that you can use to keep them alive — or at least tasty — during the summer, and they all boil down to one thing: oxygen levels.[…]
After almost 10 months of on-the-water experimentation — and countless hook changes, weight adjustments and buoyancy tweaks — Matrix Shad soft plastic paddletail creator Chas Champagne last week rolled out a brand new topwater lure called the Matrix Mullet that’s already developing quite a reputation for snagging big speckled trout.[…]
With the exception of largemouth bass and catfish, guide Maynard Edwards of Lexington, N.C., has given up on using just one bait or lure at a time.[…]
Apparently startled, certainly rattled, a small, injured bream swam to the surface, zigged and zagged in the scattered grass, jumped a little and landed sideways before continuing to move erratically until it settled back into the water to meet its fate.[…]
In a typical kayak, there just isn’t a whole lot of extra room for a vast array of pre-rigged rods, or multiple tackle boxes crammed with an insane variety of hooks, topwater lures, soft plastics and other items you never use but couldn’t pass up during your last visit down the fishing aisle.[…]
As fickle as the Atchafalaya River stage has been most springs and summers in the 2000s — well, and much of the time before that — it’s a challenge for an avid Morgan City outdoorsman to predict what the best fishing might be in June.[…]
Agents with the Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries cited four men for alleged frogging violations just days before the season reopened on June 1.[…]
Last month, I mentioned that the average score of Mississippi bucks at the Louisiana Sportsman Show was 113 inches, while the average score of Louisiana bucks was 118.[…]
Scanning the horizon for flocks of diving birds feasting on shrimp is a tried and true method for locating schools of speckled trout across Louisiana’s coast.[…]
Hybridization, the result of cross-breeding between two species, is rare in nature. Humans can manipulate the mating of animals to produce hybrids, but Mother Nature doesn’t like that kind of fooling around.[…]
Professional photographer Sarah Santiny never goes too far without her trusty camera, and her Memorial Day trip to the beach on Grand Isle was no exception.[…]