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Capt. Nick Rando (right), owner of Fishaholic Fishing Charters, with Allen Buckley and a 45-pound black drum caught on shrimp under a Four-Horsemen popping cork in the Lost Lake area.

Make it a Delacroix December

The fishing is fantastic and there’s action to be found all over the inside waters of Delacroix Island. […]

Lakeshore Estates canals give up 6-pound speckled trout on the North Shore

Chas Champagne reeled in his biggest speckled trout in a couple of years, when he caught a 6-pounder in the Lakeshore Estates canals on the North Shore Wednesday morning. […]

Warren Maxwell with two nice Grand Bayou winter crappie.

It’s prime time for big crappie at Grand Bayou

Kinny Haddox

Grand Bayou is full of big, broad-shouldered crappie. And this is a grand month of the year to catch them. […]

Joey Jeanfreau shows off a nice speckled trout, and said Chalmette locations typically get hot from October through about April.

Chalmette fishing action picks up in December

Rusty Tardo

Some truly prime winter fishing waters are accessed by three Chalmette area launches. […]

Marsh Man Masson ventured to his neighborhood swimming pool to put some twitch baits through their paces.

Pool test: Which twitch bait is best for speckled trout?

Todd Masson

Marsh Man Masson tests various speckled trout twitch baits in his neighborhood swimming pool — and the results are eye-opening. […]

Will Shell Beach fishing shine this month?

Joel Masson

The keys to having success with speckled trout at Shell Beach this month. […]

VersaMaxx Bolt popping cork

louisianasportsman

If you get frustrated by constantly having to stop fishing to adjust the length of the leader under your popping cork, the VersaMaxx Bolt is exactly what you’re looking for. […]

The fall migration of speckled trout to the interior marshes is in full force. Good days will be on a light south wind and a moving tide. Weighted baitfish and shrimp patterns under a VOSI will deliver numbers of school trout. […]

Creature Feature: The little shad is a good shad

Jerald Horst

In December’s Creature Feature column, Jerald Horst tells you everything you wanted to know — and more — about differences between gizzard and threadfin shad. […]

Capt. Joe Ezell said Delacroix is in the midst of an awesome redfish run — market bait or chartreuse artificials are both good bait choices.

Delacroix redfish run best in many years

Todd Masson

The redfish bite is on fire right now out of Delacroix – here’s how to catch them. […]

Three common conditions that cause trout to move. Here’s how to find them

Ann Taylor

As water and weather conditions change, the key to a good fishing trip might be just a few feet. Next time the speckled trout bite slows down, try making slight adjustments as trout engineer Jon […]

Mississippi pro Brock Mosley said a short mono leader is all that’s needed to provide a little stretch between braid and topwater lures like the Bill Lewis StutterStep.

Add a topwater ‘shock absorber’

Andy Crawford

Mono leader provides stretch Topwater strikes make anglers’ knees go weak, but the thrill of victory can quickly turn to crushing defeat when monster bass pull off. And the current trend of using braid with […]