Tippets
August is the last full month of “SweatFest 2018,” the festival nobody likes to celebrate. While a combination of hot water and high tides make for tough fly fishing, late summer does offer a few unique opportunities.[…]
August is the last full month of “SweatFest 2018,” the festival nobody likes to celebrate. While a combination of hot water and high tides make for tough fly fishing, late summer does offer a few unique opportunities.[…]
Saltwater
Where: Grand Isle: Caminada Pass, Barataria Pass and Elmer’s Island beach
What: Bull reds and jack crevalle in the passes, and trout on the beach[…]
Reel Steady Rod Stabilizer
Designed to add stability to heavy offshore fishing rods, the Reel Steady is a great addition for kayak anglers who need all the help they can get. Be it snapper or tarpon, fighting these bruisers from the seated position of a kayak makes handling heavy rods even more difficult.[…]
Enforcement agents with the Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries arrested a St. Mary Parish man on Tuesday for alleged fishing, boating and drug violations on Lake Palourde.[…]
Enforcement agents with the Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries cited a Lafayette man on Monday for allegedly making false mayday calls from his boat on False River.[…]
Unless the lower Spillway turned on in late July, at least one Morgan City bass angler will be fishing on the other side of the East Atchafalaya Basin Protection Levee in August.[…]
Glen Freeman of Zwolle has a new weapon in his bass fishing arsenal when he goes out to Toledo Bend. So does Zack Hughes of Quitman, Texas, who boated a 10-plus-pounder on the first day he fished with it at Lake Fork.[…]
Enforcement agents with the Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries cited a 33-year-old Jefferson Parish man for alleged fishing violations Saturday in the Barataria Waterway.[…]
Sure, the heat is suffocating. You can barely stand to be outside, and you spend your sleeping hours dreaming of crisp leaves, pumpkin cake and October cool fronts.[…]
This time of the year, fishing has slowed down quite a bit, but it isn’t the fish — it’s the fishermen. You’ll find crappie fishing the Ouachita River.[…]
Get a good real-time reading of the wind’s impact on tidal estimates using a piling or other stationary object in the water.[…]
Previously, on a typical August day, Delacroix anglers would head out into Black Bay and fish the same islands and structures that have produced trout for decades. Stone Island, Lonesome Island, Belle Island, the Wreck, the Black Tanks, Iron Banks and Battledore Reef were landmarks thick with trout and consistent producers, year after year.[…]
No matter what kind of fishing you’re doing in the marsh, finding clean water is almost always helpful.[…]
Two men died in separate boating accidents Saturday, one in Lake Pontchartrain and the other in Iberia Parish, according to the Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries.[…]
Today’s the day.
Sunday is likely the last day for recreational red snapper anglers to get in a 2018 trip — according to a press release from the Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries, the state season will close tonight ( Aug. 12) at 11:59 p.m.[…]
Learn how to age the bucks that most hunters mount, the 4- to 6-year-old deer that are exhibiting their best antler growth.[…]