It always amazes me how few boats I see on Lake Pontchartrain outside of April and May. Take a recent trip I took with Eric Dumas for instance. We basically had the entire train bridge to ourselves except for the big trout that kept attacking our live shrimp.[…]
Capt. Charlie Thomason with Bayou Charters (985-809-6391) was as spirited as Tiger Stadium after a touchdown when he told me we were going sight fishing for redfish.[…]
Ray Chagnard and Edward Adams, both of Metairie, caught a six-redfish total weighing 48 pounds, 2 ounces to win the Wal-Mart FLW Redfish Series Western Divisions event in Cocodrie.[…]
It’s tough when Mother Nature takes away both of your options at Venice. The wind is keeping anglers off the rigs, and the muddy water is making it tough in the bays.[…]
According to Capt. Erik Rue with Calcasieu Charter Service (337-598-4700), there is a lot happening at Big Lake right now. Trout are biting all over the lake with most of the action coming over the oyster reefs and under the birds.[…]
As much as Capt. Chad Dufrene (985-637-6357) would like to get to the trout along the coast below Golden Meadow, the wind just isn’t letting him do it right now. That’s all right with him, though, because the redfish in the ponds are keeping him busy while he waits for the winds to lie.[…]
Here’s something to ponder: Louisiana’s tourism folks have worked hard to get the Redfish Tour and Redfish Cup to hold tournaments here. This year, there will be a total of seven such events in the Bayou State, several of which will be televised on ESPN.[…]
Duck hunting, as I constantly explain to greenies, is mainly bird-watching.
“I’m more of a bird-watcher than you,” I snort at them.[…]
Many anglers believe that successful summertime fishing for speckled trout demands live bait, but that’s just not the case.[…]
It doesn’t take much effort to see what the primary occupation of the locals is when driving toward Hopedale. Signs advertising saltwater fishing charters hang out from waterside boat docks and piers like Spanish moss dripping from the Evangeline Oak.[…]
Spring sprung as suddenly as a wind-up Jack-in-a-box. For me, it sprung in the form of an alarm clock’s irritating buzzer awakening me out of a sound sleep at 3:30 in the morning.[…]
The wind was blowing out of the northwest as the sun peaked over the horizon, but it wasn’t terrible. Chad Chaisson was still confident the trout would be waiting.[…]
It’s common knowledge that the biggest trout of the year bite during May on the bridges of Lake Pontchartrain. That’s why I was so bewildered that Capt. Greg Schlumbrecht with To Fish Charters (985-960-1709) and I were one of only three boats fishing the Trestle yesterday.[…]
Trout anglers have had ideal conditions the past couple of days, and the reports coming from the mouth of the Mississippi River encouraged Capt. Lloyd Landry (504-912-8291), Tony Taylor and me as we headed motored down Buras Canal in search of a mule. This was going to be our day.[…]
The last cold front that blew through Southeast Louisiana scattered muddy water from Lafitte to Grand Isle, and it scattered the speckled trout just as far. Capt. Mike Daigle with Cast-It Charters (504-915-9480 or 985-331-8548) is still catching a few fish, but he said he’s having to fish 20 places just to catch 20 trout.[…]
Among the tremendous losses resulting from Hurricane Katrina was an old lighthouse that stood for more than a century at the tip of Louisiana’s most remote barrier island chain.[…]