The trip looked doomed. It always happens this way. The prospects for the morning’s fishing trip always decrease in direct ratio to the number of wine corks popped and trips to the keg. When Doc cranks up “Shattered” by the Rolling Stones, the plans are seriously tail-spinning.[…]
Writing about red snapper biology isn’t a lot of fun. In fact, it’s downright depressing. The 40-day recreational season ended in July.[…]
Ten-year-old Phillip Rue was scrunched up on the bow seat of the boat, torquing the handle of the spinning reel ferociously.[…]
There are always fish of some type on the jetties in the summer, Capt. Erik Rue said. They might be specks, and they might be redfish.[…]
Mullet, usually striped mullet but occasionally white mullet, have always been popular bait. In recent years, however, they have slipped somewhat in popularity — but not because they don’t catch fish.[…]
Erik Rue’s live-bait rig is simplicity itself.
It consists of a 6-foot length of 20- or 25-pound-test monofilament or fluorocarbon. Monofilament is a little softer and easier to deal with, but fluorocarbon is more abrasion resistant when fishing around the rocks.[…]
Learn more about how Capt. Erik Rue fishes big lake, including his trout-fishing calendar and detailed hotspot maps, in “Trout Masters Too: How the Pros Do It.”[…]
It was time to put Plan B into action.
Craig Matherne and I had been trying to coax a trout or two to bite on the surf side of Grand Isle, and we were having very little luck.[…]
Ten-year-old Phillip Rue was scrunched up on the bow seat of the boat, torquing the handle of the spinning reel ferociously.[…]
Bass anglers became well aware of the advantages of fishing a drop-shot rig several years ago.[…]
After breaking off a live croaker on a mangrove snapper that tied me up in a rig, Capt. Craig Matherne saw me tying on a new hook.[…]
It was the eve of Feb. 1 in the year 1700 — a day long celebrated by Europeans as “Candlemas,” a day when their religious clergy blessed the candles that would be used in their religious services for the remainder of the year.
On the eve of that holy day, French explorer Pierre Le Moyne d’Iberville dropped anchor alongside a long chain of uninhabited islands off the border of the Louisiana/Mississippi coast and christened them Les Iles de Chandeleur (Translated in English a “The Chandeleur Islands”) in honor of the event.[…]
Running to Black Bay from Delacroix and working your way back through the marsh to Orange Bayou is your best bet for a fat, mixed bag of inshore species.[…]
Making a clean sweep seems to always make things feel a little fresher.[…]
The body of a 25-year-old Westlake man missing since the boat in which he was fishing on Lake Charles capsized Friday evening was recovered Sunday (July 22) morning, the Louisiana Department of Wildlife & Fisheries reported.
Christopher Rollins was the second victim of the accident; the body of 22-year-old William R. Druilhet Jr. was recovered Saturday morning, the LDWF said.[…]
OK then, you have a small boat, you want to fish for specks and reds, and you think you can’t do it. But you can.[…]