Mike “Road Kill” McMullen, 52, and his brother Freddie, 54, grew up in Treasure Island, essentially an island formed by Bayou DeSiard (pronounced DE zeerd) and Black Bayou, on the northern outskirts of Monroe, Louisiana.[…]
The Mississippi River Gulf Outlet, a dredged channel completed in 1965, never lived up to its predicted potential to largely replace the river proper as a deepwater approach to the Port of New Orleans.[…]
Lower St. Bernard Parish, whether one launches out of Shell Beach, Hopedale, Yscloskey, or Delacroix, has long been a sportfishing playground for New Orleanians. Fishermen can launch at any of the four sites to access the rocks at the end of the Mississippi River Gulf Outlet.[…]
No matter what species of fish you’re targeting, matching up your rod, reel and line not only helps you get more bites, it’ll help you land more fish.[…]
If you want to get a friend or child interested in fishing, what’s one of the best things to do? Take them bream fishing. Just about anywhere there’s a puddle in the state, there are bream.[…]
Dale Taylor knows exactly what he wants in his hands when he starts buzzing big bass. He starts with a seven foot Abu Garcia Veritas medium action rod matched out with a Lew’s 6.5:1 baitcaster.[…]
Bream are by the far the most plentiful fish and easiest to catch. You don’t even need a boat in many lakes and ponds. Almost every area body of water has bream in it and we have all kinds — bluegills. chinquapins, sunfish, goggle-eyes and all kinds of hybirds.[…]
There’s a long list of how to prepare fish to eat. But one of the oldest and most popular is whole-fried bream. Many people grew up eating them this way.[…]
Right now, grass is like a combination of Red Bull, bacon, Twinkies and ice cream for redfish — they simply can’t stay away from it. […]
A tiny insect is causing a huge problem in southern Plaquemines Parish, adversely affecting more than 100,000 acres of roseau cane — the dominant vegetation of the Mississippi River Delta.[…]
Gary Yamamoto Custom Baits’ (GYCB) latest hot lure, the Sanshouo, almost didn’t make it off the cutting room floor.[…]
For the first time in a long time, there’s some rare good news on the red snapper front in the Gulf of Mexico.[…]
What’s the worst part about summer? The heat? Nope. The fresh-out-of-school kids terrorizing the neighborhood? Maybe. In my estimation it’s no one thing but rather hordes of a certain small thing; mosquitoes.[…]
Calcasieu Lake, more commonly known as Big Lake, is in flux.[…]
A dispute over a public fishing hole escalated Monday on Toledo Bend, leaving one angler with a ticket and another angler who allegedly pulled a firearm booked into the Sabine Parish Correctional Center, according to a press release from the Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries.[…]
Daniel Compagno experienced a wide range of emotions on the water out of Hopedale Tuesday, first losing the biggest flounder he’d ever seen after landing it up on the rocks near the MRGO dam — then barely managing to reel in his personal best speckled trout only an hour later to unexpectedly grab the lead in the CCA-Louisiana STAR Tournament’s East Division.[…]