While there are no guarantees in New Orleans East right now, Captain CT Williams with Big Fish Charters (504-610-6914) says the start of the squeeze play between the mud coming out of the mouth of the Mississippi to the south and the mud coming out of Pontchartrain to the north is pushing fish to Breton Sound.[…]
When word gets out that the redfish are on the rocks at the end of the ship channel below Calcasieu Lake, anglers flock to the area to reel in everything from 16-inch grillers to 40-pound behemoths.[…]
Trout fishing has definitely been on the upswing along many stretches of coastal Louisiana, but the problem many are finding is that the wind is just as strong as the fishing.[…]
With millions of gallons of water so muddy it had coon tracks on it barreling down the Mississippi River just to our east, Captain Owen Langridge (225-978-1136) idled his boat to the west out of Yellow Cotton Bay Marina.[…]
Having spent two days plying the waters of Lake Pontchartrain within the last few days, it looks like the trout bite is just weeks away.[…]
Papa Joe Bush (504-689-3728) had to cancel his trip on Wednesday because of the strong winds and rain that were predicted to move through New Orleans during the early morning.[…]
Captain Bill Lake with Bayou Guide Service (985-637-3712) didn’t get on the water until about 3:00 p.m. yesterday afternoon. Within an hour and a half, he and his customers had put 50 trout in the boat.[…]
We arrived at Doc’s French Quarter bungalow elegantly early only to find the place already packed. “Geezum,” snorted Pelayo at Fontaine. “I thought you said it was an exclusive affair this year?”[…]
The recent heavy rains in Southwest Louisiana weren’t enough to shut the trout bite off at Calcasieu Lake, and Capt. Jeff Poe with Big Lake Guide Service (337) 598-3268 has continued to catch a bunch of fish the past several days.[…]
The stretch of water between Yellow Cotton Bay and the Buras Canal has been pretty productive for Capt. Shawn Lanier lately.[…]
Gazing from atop the Empire Bridge in southern Plaquemines Parish, one can see literally thousands of white PVC pipes sticking up from atop oyster beds.[…]
Capt. C.T. Williams’ web address is thebigfish.net. But during this season of the year, the marshes surrounding his home port of Hopedale deliver not quite exactly what his Internet name implies.[…]
One thing for sure about coastal Louisiana is that there are some well-known areas where the fishing heats up as soon as the weather gets cold.[…]
Most people in Louisiana relate purging with cleaning a sack full of crawfish by making them vomit out impurities before they are dropped into a pot of boiling water.[…]
Cooling water temperatures will soon make live shrimp hard to come by. That’s not stopping Capt. Warren Dudenhefer (504-813-3474) from catching fish two at a time, though.[…]
The last time Louisiana saw so many outsiders moving in to the state to take advantage of an opportunity was after the Civil War when carpetbaggers headed south looking to take advantage of the economic and political situation.[…]