Folks may not be thinking too much about flounder right here in the middle of the summer, but a recent trip I made with Captain Jeff Poe of Big Lake Guide Service (337-598-3268) and his son Nick proved to all of us that keeping an open mind can fill your cooler with lots of flat fish while the sun sizzles overhead.[…]
Like a hyperactive schoolboy at recess, 66-year-old Danny Womack positioned his bay boat stern end to the rig, while instructing me to drop the anchor.[…]
Imagine that you are fishing a coastal lake and there is only one oyster reef smack dab in the middle of it — no cuts, no canals, no points, just that one solitary reef.[…]
This was a brutal spring for anglers, guides and marina operators in Southeast Louisiana.[…]
I’ve been on several awesome trout trips in the last few years, but few, if any, have been as good as the one I took with Captain Brent Roy with Venice Charters Unlimited (225-268-8420) recently. The phrase for the day was a grateful sounding, “just another 4- or 5-pound trout.”[…]
125, 125, and 75… that’s the count for Captain Marty LaCoste of Absolute Fishing Charters (985-856-4477) the last three days. Speckled trout have invaded the nearshore rigs below Bayou DuLarge big time in the last week or so, and anglers are catching them two at a time.[…]
There is still a lot of river water in Black Bay, but Captain Gene Dugas with Rather Be Fishing Adventures (985-640-0569) said that it’s not slowing down the fishing much.[…]
The gates are closed and the Mississippi River is falling. The question remains, though, of what effect the opening of the Bonnet Carré Spillway had on the normally spectacular speckled trout fishing at Lake Pontchartrain during the spring. If my recent trip with Captain Greg Schlumbrecht with To Fish Charters (985-960-1709) is an indicator, the answer is “not much.”[…]
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?”[…]