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YUMbrella Rig
The newest wave of artificial lures has taken the fishing world by storm within the past few months.[…]
Inshore Fishing
Inshore Fishing
Trolling tips and tricks
Figuring out where the trout are on the world’s longest continuous bridge over water is a daunting task. However, most folks who already jig fish the Causeway for trout already have their favorite stretches to fish.[…]
Inshore Fishing
Bigger trap stays closer to bottom
The 3/4-ounce Rat-L-Trap is such a large lure that I couldn’t help but ask Capt. Eric Dumas why he chose to fish with it rather than the more typical 1/2-ounce Trap.[…]
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Break the Rules, Catch More Fish
If I were a betting man, I’d be willing to bet that when Capt.Charlie Thomason was a kid, he was always in trouble. I picture him as the mischievous type, cutting up in class, constantly talking and generally disruptive.[…]
Inshore Fishing
Quality care
Ricky Richoux has strong opinions about the right way to handle fish to get a quality product for the table.[…]
Inshore Fishing
Tools of the trade
The Slimeslinger travels light, with all his tools in a single plastic tool box. Naturally enough, the man’s most important tools are his knives.[…]
Inshore Fishing
Why not electric?
Ricky Richoux must get asked that question a lot. His answer comes too quickly when a kibitzer pops the query.[…]
Inshore Fishing
X-2 Deep-Diving Crankbait
Designed to help you catch more bass, ABT Lure Company’s “Next Generation” X-2 lure also significantly reduces resistance upon retrieve, eliminating the normal fatigue associated with fishing a deep-diver for a long period of time.[…]
Inshore Fishing
MirrOlure Lil John
Available in fourteen popular color patterns, the MirrOlure Lil John Twitchbait is the latest addition to MirrOlure’s popular soft plastic product line.[…]
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Bayou Bienvenue is BACK!
Everybody wondered if the fishing action around Bayou Bienvenue could ever recover. Like so many other fishing areas in Southeast Louisiana, Bayou Bienvenue was adversely affected by the BP oil spill and the opening of the Bonnet Carre spillway.[…]
Inshore Fishing
Great Wall is amazing
The Great Wall is almost 2 miles long and runs across the St. Bernard marsh, blocking the MRGO (Mississippi River Gulf Outlet, or Ship Channel), Bayou Bienvenue and the ICW (Intracoastal Waterway).[…]
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Do we have a tiger by the tail?
Louisiana is a shrimp-crazy state. Until being battered by cheaper imports, shrimp fisheries were the backbone of the economies of many coastal communities. The value of the fishery dwarfed the others.[…]
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The Gold Mine
If you fish the famed Sulfur Mine in Galliano, you likely won’t find any gold, but you will find lots of silver and bronze. This old industrial mine site is a perfect place to take your kayak for limits of wintertime specks and reds.[…]
Inshore Fishing
Construction of second artificial reef in Lake Pontchartrain begins
Construction of a new Lake Pontchartrain artificial reef built from debris from the old Interstate 10 Twin Span bridges that were damaged during Hurricane Katrina was begun last week (Dec. 21), with the pile of concrete being named after a well-known lake guide and his wife.[…]
Inshore Fishing
Delacroix trout smackdown continues
It was drizzling when I stepped out of my truck at Sweetwater Marina early Monday (Dec. 5), the first signs of a front that was barreling through the state. I just shook my head, wriggled into my rain suit and headed to meet the two guys I’d be fishing with that morning.
I had told Scott Walker that I didn’t want to waste a day out of the office because I was slammed, and he had promised me it wouldn’t take long to fill our limits of speckled trout.
His confidence was more than braggadocio: I was back at the dock barely more than two hours later, loading up an ice chest full of speckled trout and heading back to the office.[…]
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Winter yak fishing
Wintertime fishing in South Louisiana can be fantastic. The cold weather brings less fishing pressure and concentrates the fish in many areas that are easily accessible to kayak anglers.[…]