Inshore Fishing
How to keep live bait alive
Having live bait can make the difference in having a successful trip. Live bait is also expensive.[…]
Inshore Fishing
Inshore Fishing
The Kwik Klip
Every speck and redfish fisherman who stows his rods in vertical holders has snagged a shirt on an exposed treble hook, been bopped on the head by a popping cork flopping in the wind or has spent frustrating moments untangling a snarled rod instead of fishing.[…]
Inshore Fishing
Zeroing in on Lake Pontchartrain specks
The Lake Pontchartrain Causeway consists of two spans of bridge, each 24 miles long. That’s a lot of bridge.[…]
Inshore Fishing
Lake Pontchartrain trout-fishing tools
Greg Schlumbrecht likens bottom-fishing soft plastics on the Causeway to bass fishin[…]
Inshore Fishing
Unique green-colored speckled trout caught in Bay St. Louis
The phrase “green trout” has long been a euphemism for marsh bass, but it turns out speckled trout really can turn green — or it seems at least remotely possible, according to a biologist who reviewed a photo posted in the LouisianaSportsman.com reports section.[…]
Inshore Fishing
Speckled trout ‘on fire’ out of Cypremort Point
It took a while for the speckled trout bite to turn on out of Cypremort Point this year, but October’s arrival — along with a couple of pretty nice cool fronts — has finally done the trick.[…]
Field Notes
Top 3 Shell Beach transition trout tips
Capt. Jakamo Laboureur, with Jakamo South Fishing Adventures, shares his Top 3 tips to fish for speckled trout out of Shell Beach in October.[…]
Inshore Fishing
Three men cited for Grand Isle redfish violations
Agents with the Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries cited three men last week for redfish violations on the Caminada Pass Bridge in Grand Isle.[…]
Columns
End your crustacean frustration: Experts share advice on fishing crab flies
It was one of those idyllic October mornings in the Louisiana marsh. The air was brisk following the passage of a cool front the day before.[…]
Inshore Fishing
Trout action ignites inside Delacroix
I just returned from a trip with Capt. Mike Wittich in Delacroix Island, where we put a three-man limit of specks in the boat before noon. […]
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Hooked! Fishing guide shares tips for trout success at Shell Beach, Hopedale
I think the first time I fished with Capt. Tim “Hook” Ursin Jr. was back in the early to mid-1990s. At the time he was running his charter service out of the End of the World Marina on Delacroix Island — and we were both a lot younger then.[…]
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Flounder fantasy — Tips for Point-aux-Chenes WMA flounder
If Ray Scott had been a flounder fanatic rather than a bass buff, I would have signed up as his first lifetime member of Flounder Masters and granted him easy access to my coffers.[…]
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Monster Mash — Catching Lake Pontchartrain’s Halloween trout
“Most people have never seen a 5-pound speckled trout. They call a 2 ½-pound fish 5 pounds. I know that because they do it on my boat all the time. A 5-pound trout is huge!”[…]
Columns
These Cajuns know crawfish
Vern and Dee Dee Becnel are River Parishes Cajuns. Here are their recipes for Crawfish Étouffée and Crawfish Stuffed Flounder.[…]
Inshore Fishing
Speckled trout haven’t transitioned inside yet near Cocodrie and Dularge
It may be officially fall on the calendar now, but speckled trout haven’t quite gotten the message to head back into interior marshes near Cocodrie and Dularge, according to a fishing guide.[…]
Inshore Fishing
Top 3 tips to catch Lake Pontchartrain flounder
Long before the “World Series Trout Run” takes place in October, another tasty species usually kicks off fall fishing fever for Lake Pontchartrain anglers.[…]