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Triple Treat

May 23, 2006 John E. Phillips

The tripletail, also called the buoy bass, blackfish, chobie or sunfish, derives its name because the oversized dorsal and anal fins sweep back toward the tail to give the fish a three-tailed look.[…]

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Gulf Habitats Part II

May 23, 2006 Jerald Horst

The eight habitat types of special importance are marshes, seagrasses, mangroves, oyster reefs, live/hard bottoms, artificial structures, coral reefs, and sargassum. Each will be discussed in more detail.[…]

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Weather or Not

May 23, 2006 Todd Masson

Many centuries ago, when Houmas Indians needed precipitation to water crops, their leaders would get together at night around a fire and join in a rain dance. Capt. Bryce Michel can relate.[…]

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Changing Faces

May 23, 2006 Chris Ginn

Caney is a different lake than it was in the early 1990s, when it was the hottest bass impoundment in the South. But it still holds plenty more lunkers than the average Louisiana lake.Like a pubescent teenager, 5,000-acre Caney Lake in Jackson Parish went through some changes a few years ago.[…]

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Chitto Chitto, Bang

May 23, 2006 Don Dubuc

“Son, you gotta be there shootin’ when the ducks are flyin’!” I can hear those 40-something-year-old words as if they were uttered just last season.[…]

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Blind Luck

May 23, 2006 Rusty Tardo

The ride to Venice was both eye-opening and heart-breaking.It was my first trip down the Louisiana peninsula since the eye of Katrina came ashore and ravaged that fragile finger of land.[…]

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Lost & Found

May 23, 2006 Susan Gros

Capt. Mike Guidry stepped from his truck and slid a crisp five-dollar bill into the slot of the honor box at Bason’s Marina. Seventy-five-year old Lurey Terrebonne, who operates this quaint launch, waved us on from his front porch.[…]