Fishing Hotspots
Head outside from Hopedale
Capt. Sal “Gotcha Hooked” Fontana (504-812-7773) said he heads outside this month out of Hopedale to hunt both specks and reds in deeper water.[…]
Inshore Fishing
Fishing Hotspots
Destination Delacroix
Capt. Chad Dufrene (985-637-6357) is trying to think positive after this year’s brutal winter.[…]
Fishing Hotspots
Transition trout in Dularge
Want to find and catch speckled trout in the Dularge area in March?[…]
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‘Zombie’ reds invade Delacroix marshes
Some zombies have invaded the marshes of Delacroix recently — but not the walking dead variety. […]
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Marsh Man Masson vid: More topwater trophy trout in entirely new area
After boating some bruisers a few days earlier in Hopedale, I had topwater-trout fever, so I did some map study at home, and identified three areas that I suspected would hold some big ones.[…]
Fishing Hotspots
Redfish prowling Venice bays
Winter makes for tough fishing at the mouth of the Mississippi River, but things are on the upswing this month as redfish invade the exterior bays around Venice.[…]
Fishing Hotspots
Trolling for springtime trout
Many anglers love to know great fishing locations, and although that’s certainly important, avid angler Stan Mathes puts a lot of thought into his technique this time of year.[…]
Features
The wind can be your friend
I loathe wind.
Mainly because it always blows when I don’t want it to. But also because it seems to follow me around.[…]
Features
Caillou Island’s ‘Junkyard Trout’
Capt. Tommy Pellegrin called them “junk trout.”
It’s not often that you hear speckled trout, the fish of fishes in Louisiana, called anything at all relating to junk.[…]
Inshore Fishing
G. Loomis E6X Inshore Rod Series
If you’re looking for a new weapon of choice to target redfish and speckled trout this spring, the G. Loomis E6X Inshore Rod Series fills the bill and then some.[…]
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Marsh Man Masson vid: Trophy trout completely wreck topwater plugs
Arguably the most underrated pattern along the entire Gulf Coast is throwing big, noisy topwater plugs to speckled trout as long as a man’s arm during the late-winter and early spring months.[…]
Inshore Fishing
Marsh Man Masson video: Roulette wheel decides which baits we fish
Successful fishing is often a matter of figuring out which baits fish will hit in specific situations. Well, that’s not possible when you load a bunch of lure names onto a roulette wheel and let random chance determine what you’re going to fish.[…]
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Port Sulphur bank fishermen busted for alleged redfish violations
An enforcement agent with the Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries busted three anglers in Plaquemines Parish last week for alleged redfish violations while fishing from the bank in Port Sulphur.[…]
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Hefty specks arrive near Last Island out of Cocodrie
Solid speckled trout have returned to wellheads near Last Island out of Cocodrie — but Capt. Tommy Pellegrin said they’re not likely fish that have already transitioned out of the marsh because of the recent summer-like weather we’ve been experiencing. […]
Field Notes
Top 3 tips for finicky speckled trout
Louisiana inshore anglers dream of that often elusive fast-paced trout bite — one so fast and furious specks hit anything tossed into the water. […]
Columns
February’s best bets
Caney Lake in North Louisiana holds six of the top 10 record bass in Louisiana. All are over 15 pounds, but all were caught in the 1990s. The lake experienced a decline when all of its grass beds were destroyed by carp, but the carp are almost gone and the grass is bouncing back.[…]