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.[…]
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An old commercial for Barq’s root beer said that New Orleans’ favorite beverage had “bite.”[…]
All this southerly wind has blown an ocean’s worth of water into the marshes around Magnolia.[…]
As the weather warms, saltwater fishing heats up. I can always find the fish using tandem rigged plastic or live bait. I have tricks for using either these artificial or live bait setups with or without a cork without ever tying a knot to change my rig.[…]
Normally, anglers have to wait until the month of May for consistent action around Grand Isle, but this is definitely not a normal year.[…]
The smoke/glitter sparkle beetle arched through the air toward a handful of scraggly, brush sticks poking out of the water — the few remains of the live black mangroves that once covered a substantial island.[…]
If you’re not catching speckled trout right now, it’s probably because you’re not fishing DuLarge.[…]
Although you might not suspect it by looking at the calendar, Delacroix’s speckled trout are already active outside.[…]
The popularity of speckled trout in Louisiana eclipses that of any other saltwater species, perhaps by several fold. We love to catch them, and we love to eat them.[…]