Although there’s been a lot of talk of increased fishing pressure at Big Lake in the last few years, Capt. Jeff Poe feels like there’s something going on that might have gone a little bit under the rader recently.[…]
One might think that changing lures would be a good way to counteract fishing pressure at Calcasieu Lake. […]
May loomed, and Eddie assumed our traditional summer fishing schedule also loomed.[…]
This is it: You don’t have to wait any longer.
The month we long for with impatient anticipation throughout the entire year has finally arrived in all its spring glory.[…]
Speckled trout have returned. Along wading areas like the north shore of Lake Pontchartrain, Breton Island and Grand Isle, clousers and other baitfish patterns will be the ticket.[…]
Every trout angler knows that shrimp imitations catch fish. The slow, horizontal fall is too much for any hungry speckled trout to resist.[…]
In February, the Wyoming state legislature considered an amendment to a bill requiring that state to purchase an aircraft carrier. Even though it failed, there were 22 legislators who voted for the amendment.[…]
This is my son’s first year of playing kid-pitch baseball.
After looking like an all-star in the batting cages during his first practice, he stood on deck and watched the batter before him take a hardball to the lower back in his team’s first attempt to hit off of an inconsistent 9-year-old pitcher.[…]
“I fish live bait — live croakers,” the 68-year-old says with conviction, as if looking for a challenge. “Using plastic can be a good way to find the fish,” he adds, seeming for a moment to soften a bit, “but when I find them, I throw croakers to catch more.[…]
The sun and the tide were rising as wind sang through the fishing lines of the unused poles on the boat. It looked to be a promising blue sky Saturday (April 28), as birds fed on balls of shrimp where the water cleared in the growing salinity of Lake Robin.[…]
The action out of Hopedale could hardly be any better than it is right now.[…]
For the next three months, the Lake Pontchartrain Causeway will be one of the hottest spots in Southeast Louisiana for long, heavy speckled trout.[…]
With the strong cool front that is forecasted for this weekend, many anglers will write the Lake Pontchartrain area off for several days.[…]
Friday the 13th isn’t a day renowned for its good luck. If there is a community on earth that has a superstitious bent it’s the fishing community.[…]
While telling me about how the Davis Pond Diversion has affected speckled trout fishing around Lafitte, Capt. Theophile Bourgeois mentioned something that I don’t think he realized provided a perfect contrast of the life before and after the levee break started flowing.[…]
The Mississippi River is supposed to be 6.5 feet at New Orleans Carrollton Gauge by Monday (April 23), and that has Capt. Owen “Big O” Langridge chomping at the bit.[…]