Down here in the Deep South, we don’t really get to enjoy four different seasons like folks do farther north. I always heard that each season — spring, summer, fall and winter — had its own unique characteristics, and up north, those folks actually get to experience them.[…]
OK, so they may not be much good to eat, but the bull reds are so thick in Riverside Bay on the west side of the Mississippi River that anglers wanting something tugging on their strings can’t help but get some action.[…]
“If the wind doesn’t blow you off the lake, you can catch some good trout right now,” said Capt. Norman Rester with A-Speck Charters (318-481-0049). “Last Thursday, Friday and Saturday, we did real well. And just the other day, a friend of mine caught 15 trout in 15 minutes.”[…]
Webster defines pandemonium as ‘a wild uproar.’
I’m pretty sure that’s the best way to describe what was happening all around me.[…]
“Finding a good tournament fishing partner is kind of like finding a good wife,” said Chag’s Sporting Goods owner Ray Chagnard. “If you’re going to play this game right, you’ve got to work to create a partnership that works.”[…]
Everybody knows you can’t catch fish in the wind. It’s one of those well-established and oft-repeated pearls of advice: “Stay home on windy days.”[…]
The only anglers immune to the buffeting winds the last few days are those in the protected duck ponds chasing redfish. Capt. Bill Lake with Bayou Guide Service (985-851-6015) says he’s been taking what he can get while he waits on the trout to turn on.[…]
The wind has been relentless in Southeast Louisiana the past few days, but that hasn’t stopped Capt. Lloyd Landry with Outcast Fishing Charters (504-912-8291) from putting his customers on redfish on both sides of the Mississippi River.[…]
It was so early in the morning, I couldn’t even see the fluorescent-orange cork that my fishing partner, Eric Dumas, had threaded onto my braided line.[…]
Capt. Greg Schlumbrecht with To Fish Charters recently suggested that a mild tropical storm in the Gulf of Mexico would turn on the trout bite at Lake Pontchartrain.[…]
The word coming out of the Barataria Basin, according to Captain Mike Daigle with Cast-It-Charters (504-915-9480), is that the trout are on the move.[…]
The recent trout action around Grand Isle has slowed the past couple of days, but that hasn’t kept Capt. Jim Thibodeaux of Fish Tales Guide Service (985-696-1801) from catching fish. A quick move to the inside has had him neck deep in reds.[…]
Capt. Frank Moore (504-887-4960) has been whacking the trout the past couple days out in Breton Sound even with the huge tidal ranges the coast has been having lately.[…]
Anglers fishing the coastal areas below Cocodrie are catching fish, albeit smaller 12- to 14-inch ones. Capt. Marty LaCoste with Absolute Fishing Charters (985-856-4477) has the remedy for the tiny-trout syndrome, though. He said to head to the satellite rigs about 6 miles offshore.[…]
The argument about whether to use live bait or artificial will rage the next couple of days, but the simple fact is that some big trout are biting all across Southeast Louisiana from Lake Pontchartrain down to Venice and over to Bayou DuLarge.[…]
A student of his past, Capt. John Verret is a Houma Indian who discovered bow fishing after Hurricane Andrew replaced the frogs in the marshes of southern Terrebonne Parish with redfish and black drum.[…]