There’s no doubt Capt. Chris Pike is mainly going to throw live shrimp during June, but if he gets the opportunity to throw a soft plastic, there’s also no doubt what color it will be.[…]
Of all the decisions to be made when fishing outside of Delacroix, Capt. Chris Pike insisted that picking your first spot and getting there early is on top of the list.[…]
With summer comes a change in sight-casting strategy. As the long, hot days heat the shallow ponds, bigger reds will move to the edges of lakes and bays.[…]
Strong south and southeast winds out of Dularge have dampened the speckled trout bite and forced fishermen to move into interior duck ponds to target redfish, according to a local guide.[…]
Two years ago, on the Saturday of Memorial Day weekend, I was having breakfast at a local restaurant in Denham Springs. My cell phone rang. It was my buddy Steve Lee.[…]
Dear Capt. Paul,
By any chance do you have the latitude-longitude coordinates for a place called Hog Island? I used to fish it some 30 years ago.[…]
Unusually high water levels on the Mississippi River right now are making speckled trout tougher to find out of Venice, according to a fishing guide.[…]
Why Capt. Jakamo Laboureur, a longtime user of a No. 1 kahle hook, switched to the No. 2 live bait hook to catch speckled trout out of Shell Beach.[…]
“Ya wanna go fishing, Stupid?” the voice rang from up the aisle at the Louisiana Sportsman’s Show in Gonzales.[…]
Let’s start with a confession: I have an issue with hard-headedness. It spans well beyond fishing, but for this purpose we’ll focus on fishing — specifically the lifelong pursuit of all things speckled trout.[…]
Scarlett O’Hara often got this look. But poor Ashley Wilkes never noticed. Glenn Close got it in Fatal Sttraction, and Michael Douglas caught it in the nick of time.[…]
I can’t tell you how many times I walk through my house during summer to find my kids plopped on the couch Instagramming, Snapchatting, Facebooking or watching plain, old-fashioned television.[…]
Captains Mike Guidry and T-Man Cheramie don’t let stiff winds keep them home. They know great fishing can be had out of Pointe-aux-Chenes.[…]
Starting Monday, your saltwater fishing license might be more valuable to you than just helping you to avoid a ticket.[…]
Big Lake guide and angler Jared Adams had been on a run of huge speckled trout for about two weeks before last Saturday’s opening day of the 2015 CCA Louisiana STAR tournament.[…]
The speckled trout action out of Dularge right now is the best May bite Capt. Bill Lake has seen in at least 10 years.[…]