Speckled Trout
How to Catch Trout in Shallow Water
Trout fishing is a lot like real estate as it can often be all about location. Being in the right place at the right time can help you cash in on hungry schools of trout and a full box.[…]
Inshore Fishing
Speckled Trout
New Sportsman TV tonight: Targeting trout out of Dularge
Trout fishing is a lot like real estate: It’s all about location, location, location. Being in the right place — at the right time — can help you cash in on hungry schools of trout and fill a box. […]
News Breaker
Inshore Insights: Why I’m participating in America’s Redfish Cup
One could say there are two types of fishing: Fishing for fun and fishing under pressure.[…]
Inshore Fishing
Marsh Man Masson vid: Most unlikely catch-and-cook in history
February’s weather in South Louisiana was like a fast-forward into late-spring, with temperatures setting records many days. For the most part, March has been more seasonable but still nice.[…]
Fishing Hotspots
The perfect spot to find Golden Meadow specks
Golden Meadow guide and 4 Horseman cork owner Capt. Aaron Pierce does very well with speckled trout in two places this time of year: Catfish Lake and Bayou Blue.[…]
Inshore Fishing
Marsh Man Masson vid: Big topwater explosions between big rainstorms
With a radar app on every smartphone, it’s a lot easier now to slip out on the water between rain showers than it was just a decade ago. My son Joel and I did that on Friday, motoring our bay boat over bumpy seas to a grass flat we hoped would hold some topwater-munching speckled trout.[…]
Inshore Fishing
Inshore insights: Sometimes fishing is about much more than the trip
In 2009, I came home from Iraq.
It would be a year before I could deploy again so, for the first time in my adult life, I was left to my devices in the “Big PX” of America.[…]
Sidebars
How to make a pre-rig
Making pre-rigs is Tommy Pellegrin’s answer to the nettlesome task of trying to put together a new rig in the middle of a hot bite.[…]
Inshore Fishing
Marsh Man Masson vid: Every idiot at a tackle store
If you spend any time in a tackle shop, you’ve surely run across “anglers” like this.[…]
Ask Captain Paul
Waypoints for Big Lake
The Calcasieu Lake area is located almost entirely in Cameron Parish south of Lake Charles. It is part of the estuary of the Calcasieu River, and is just north of the Gulf of Mexico. It is more commonly referred to as Big Lake.[…]
News Breaker
Lake Pontchartrain gives up gorilla speckled trout
Sometimes anglers’ days start slowly, and they wonder if success will ever come.
Louis Paretti’s day, on the other hand, couldn’t have started out any better Thursday.[…]
Field Notes
Tips to deal with the Spillway opening
River water started pouring through the Bonnet Carré Spillway Thursday morning, and that rightly has inshore anglers concerned for the spring speckled trout run in Lake Pontchartrain. […]
Inshore Fishing
New Sportsman TV airs tonight: Venice hooks and hogs
Venice is always one of the top filming destinations for Sportsman TV: Over the last five seasons, host Greg Hackney and producer Jared Serigne have a filmed a number of episodes there, ranging from bass fishing to duck hunting to targeting redfish, red snapper and tuna. […]
Inshore Fishing
Marsh Man Masson vid: Baby on the way, but still time for topwater trout
Justin Bowles’ wife is way overdue, and it would probably have been wise for him to stay within reasonable driving distance of the hospital, but when big speckled trout are hitting topwater baits, any angler’s judgement can become cloudy.[…]
Fishing Hotspots
Spring success around Dularge
In fishing, many factors can determine your success, but in a transition month like March, temperature can be among the most critical elements.[…]
Fishing Hotspots
Frigid winter likely means delayed trout transition
Unlike the last couple of years with relatively mild winters, Mother Nature brought her full force down on South Louisiana this time — and the speckled trout that endured those frigid conditions likely will take a little longer to transition out of the marsh this year.[…]