Columns
The Cooyon Croaker
Zach Dubois, 24, has a highly successful sac-a-lait grub on the market and recently introduced the Cooyon Croaker, a plastic frog sure to appeal to bass fishermen wherever bass eat frogs.[…]
Month: May 2017
Inshore Fishing
Make Delacroix your May trout destination
Ahab Broadus has been fishing Delacroix for more than 25 years, and he said this May is setting up to be one of the better ones for anglers who like to fish the outer edges of the popular St. Bernard Parish port.[…]
Fishing
Saving the Coast
Most people don’t know it, but the entire coast of Louisiana is washing away every day. We teamed up with our pal Chris Macaluso to bring some awareness to this serious problem.[…]
Columns
The madness of March is over
The madness that happens during the month of March began when the soothsayer told Caesar to beware the Ides of March. Julius did not listen and paid the price for ignoring it.[…]
Inshore Fishing
Whacking specks on Caillou Island out of Cocodrie
They say one man’s trash is another man’s treasure.
More specifically — in the case of now-submerged Caillou Island — old oilfield trash means a treasure trove for speckled trout anglers right now out of Cocodrie. […]
Inshore Fishing
You don’t need much for a deluxe trip to Dularge
The biggest challenge most speckled-trout anglers face is finding fish. Once the fish are located, catching them is generally not too complicated, provided you’re angling ability is better than the average child’s.[…]
Fishing
Get knotty with the FG knot
I recently went out for a half-day with Capt. Matt McCabe of Pro Edge Fishing out of Slidell. He services Lake Pontchartrain and the surrounding marshes. When I got to the dock to meet him, he was in the middle of tying a bizarre knot between his main line and fluorocarbon leader.[…]
Apex Predator
Apex Predator: Noodling for giant alligator snapping turtles – in a pirogue
My buddy and I once saw some holes in a steep bank during a low-water period that looked great for noodling catfish. So before the summer months arrived when I went spearfishing for cats, I decided to try some noodles near the holes. […]
Fishing
Body of missing teen recovered from Black Bayou Lake
Search and rescue teams recovered the body of a missing 15-year old boy from Black Bayou Lake in Caddo Parish late Tuesday morning.[…]
Columns
A contested matter
Later this month, the Coastal Conservation Association’s summer-long STAR tournament kicks off in Louisiana. Once again, there’s a fly fishing division. Awards will go to the anglers weighing in the heaviest speckled trout in the East and West Divisions.[…]
Inshore Fishing
Two busted for alleged shrimping violations during closed season
Enforcement agents with the Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries cited two men for alleged shrimping violations during a closed season last week in Plaquemines Parish.[…]
Bass Fishing
Focus on finding grass or lily pads
There’s a wide area east and south of Morgan City where the bassin’ action can be fast and furious in May.[…]
Inshore Fishing
Catching giant Cameron Parish crabs
Bobbye Sonnier and Dede Isaac are what you might call crabbing connoisseurs — and they put a serious hurting on some monstrous select jumbo crustaceans recently at the Creole Nature Reserve in Cameron Parish. […]
Ask Captain Paul
Tides in Louisiana
I regularly get questions about the time and range of the tides in Louisiana coastal marshes. Many of the inquiries are about the time of the published tides from various sources listed as compared to the actual times that the high and low tides occur, and how are they determined.[…]
Inshore Fishing
Braid or fluorocarbon? Best options for speckled trout
On Lake Pontchartrain, Capt. Matt McCabe uses the lightest fluorocarbon he can get away with, and that usually means 10-pound-test, but sometimes it’s down to 8.[…]
Inshore Fishing
Inshore shrimp season opens for much of the coast on May 8
State inside waters from the eastern shore of South Pass of the Mississippi River to Freshwater Bayou will open for the spring shrimp season beginning at 6 a.m. on Monday, May 8, according to the Louisiana Wildlife and Fisheries Department.[…]