While many people, in Andy Jones’ experience, fish for alligator gar and bull sharks for the excitement that comes with catching hard-fighting fish with mouths full of big teeth, both species are indeed edible and in fact, delicious.[…]
Kayak tournament season is in high gear ,with tournaments being held across the state that cover a wide variety of formats and species. We caught up with some winners to get a few tips on their strategies for success.[…]
Striped mullet, that’s what.
This isn’t a finesse, artificial lure fishery. Gar and sharks are big, pug-ugly brutes that are looking for mouthfuls of meat.[…]
Alligator gar are encased with an almost impervious layer of scales made of true bone. Here are 8 steps for how to clean them.[…]
May is a great month to throw topwater lures for speckled trout all along the coast, and it’s especially true in Big Lake.[…]
A good topwater bite can offer an entertaining display of ferocity, but at some point the fish shy away from this game. Maybe it’s the intensifying sunlight/heat, fishing pressure or a combination of such factors; but whatever the case, Capt. Ross Montet knows that the fish haven’t necessarily stopped feeding. In his view, you simply need to descend into the water column — and popping corks offer the perfect transitional tool.[…]
My old friend Capt. Tim Ursin, aka Capt. Hook (504-512-2602) said if he had fingers on his left hand he’d have bitten the nails off long ago worrying about the absence of shrimp in the water — along with the absence of speckled trout, too.[…]
With a little cooperation from Mother Nature, Capt. Nick Poe expects May to be a banner month for speckled trout on Big Lake.[…]
This week the Sportsman TV crew gets twisted with Fin Twisters Guide Service in Venice, where Capt. Walter Heathcock took host Greg Hackney and Bowie Outfitters’ Lee Benoit on a grand tour of the coast. […]
After an incredibly successful fishing trip for speckled trout near Grand Isle, I connected with Capt. Daryl Carpenter, who has been pulling a 12- or 16-foot trawl every day, directly behind his camp on Louisiana’s only inhabited barrier island.[…]
This week the Sportsman TV crew gets twisted with Fin Twisters Guide Service in Venice, La. Fin Twisters owner Captain Walter Heathcock took host Greg Hackney and Bowie Outfitters’ Lee Benoit on a grand tour of the coast around Venice.[…]
Enforcement agents with the Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries cited two Cameron men for alleged oyster violations on May 7 in Calcasieu Lake.[…]
Agents with the Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries cited three men in Jefferson Parish on May 6 for allegedly possessing 35 redfish, according to a news release.[…]
Hot speckled trout fishing along Louisiana’s barrier islands might be two weeks behind schedule, but it kicked off big-time this week with bruiser fish flying over the gunwales. I had a front-row seat to the action Monday during a trip out of Grand Isle with Capt. Frank Dreher and my good buddy, Chris Macaluso.[…]
As a help in fishing the area, I have complied fishing waypoint positions throughout the area. Captain Paul’s Fishing Edge of GPS waypoints for Cocodrie ~ Dulac has over 165 GPS waypoints in and around the area.[…]
Two decades ago, Jason Baker of Poplarville, Miss., contracted the virus that’s inflicted so many South Louisiana anglers. These otherwise normal fishermen abandon all sense of decorum and fishing tradition to climb towering platforms and scan shallow flats through polarized sunglasses, searching for line-stripping redfish.[…]