When bream fishermen refer to bream “bedding up” they’re not speaking of bream going to bed to sleep. Actually, bedded bream are spawning bream — the most active of bream and, therefore, the easiest to catch.[…]
Hopefully the coldest winter in 24 years has come to an end. If so, fly anglers could enjoy a great month on the water.[…]
Turtle soup is considered one of the great classical Creole dishes of yore in New Orleans. Most Louisianan’s who try it today wonder what all the fuss is about.[…]
Fishing for turtles is a low-tech affair and requires very few licenses.[…]
At first glance, cleaning the armored, prehistoric-looking loggerhead turtle appears to be an impossible task. But cleaning a turtle is quite quickly and easily done once one learns the ropes.[…]
On the aftermath of Icepocalypse 2014, most flyfishers can’t begin to think about wading a cold stream with snow-covered mountain peaks as a backdrop. But come August, they will think differently. […]
Few people ever get the opportunity to reel in a fish that weighs more than they do.[…]
Any chef worth his salt understands the phrase mice en place, which means “everything in its place.”[…]
The huge, scaly beast — its massive body partially supported by the water — swim-crawled its way along the soft, mucky bottom. Its bear-like, long, black claws stirred up clouds of half-decayed vegetation and silt.[…]
One hundred-thirty years of experience.
That’s what my friend Dirk Matherne, no spring chicken himself at 58, had fixed me up with. It was a little intimidating, listening to the two silver-maned old lions comparing notes with Mike Adams, a Raceland dentist and Lake Boeuf lover. […]
Eddie Roberts, owner of Eddie’s Marine in Vidalia, said the Saline-Larto complex is the crappie capital of Louisiana.[…]
What? Never heard of this complex of waterways tucked along the western edge of Concordia Parish at Monterey? Well, Vidalia’s Eddie Roberts said it needs to be on your radar.[…]
Tim Bye lives in Luling, and knows the waters in the Bayou Des Allemands system like the back of his hand.[…]
Five of Louisiana’s Top 10 record black crappie came from Caney Lake, and Bobby Phillips said conditions are improving again now that the grass carp have been removed from the 5,000-acre reservoir.[…]
Bobby Phillips makes no bones about it: he loves Lake D’Arbonne and hopes Mother Nature cooperates this year for a February crappie spawn.[…]
You couldn’t pick a better time to be on Toledo Bend than February, said Jerry Thompson of Living the Dream Guide Service.[…]