After finding slower action than expected at our first stop of the day, Capt. Kris Robert and I went exploring, and located a non-stop speckled trout bite in an area known more for its wintertime
In this month’s Creature Feature column, Jerald Horst tells you everything you wanted to know — and more — about differences between gizzard and threadfin shad. […]
Mike Malone of Sulphur, La. tallied up his best day of speckled trout fishing this past weekend while fishing in Vermilion Bay during a scouting trip for the upcoming Lafayette Kayak Club trout fishing tournament. And he wasn’t the only one.[…]
Fish top water and flies for smashing results If you love seeing redfish smash topwater offerings, but aren’t that familiar with the waters around Grand Isle, now is the time to head down Highway 1
Specks, reds and bass are all doable on a nice fall day in Delacroix. Here’s what you need to know to pull off the triple play.[…]
While Delacroix fishing is fabulous, it takes some skill and know-how to consistently connect on a trifecta. Gene Hoover and Chef KD Diez give some tips to help anglers make successful trips:[…]
When October arrives, Mother Nature typically loosens her grip on the heat and humidity that have gripped the state since early summer, and teases us with a few tantalizing cool fronts that usher in the start of fall.[…]
If Jim Morrision thought people were strange, I wonder what he thought about flounder. […]
Chas Champagne and charter boat captain Ty Hibbs, both Louisianians, were having a ball this summer catching jack crevalle and the occasional large speckled trout off the coast of Florida.[…]
Hooking flounder can be a bit of a challenge.
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Lately I’ve been enjoying the new “Jack Ryan” television series. Based on the novels by Tom Clancy, Ryan is a CIA analyst-turned-operative who is called upon to save our country from various enemies.[…]
This month, specks will be thick in the interior lakes and marshes. Look for clear water and some tidal movement. Or better yet, diving birds.[…]
Days grow shorter; appetites grow larger. Water temperatures will be falling, but bass aggression is spiking.[…]
Whether they’re hot on the heels of fleeing baitfish or wise to your presence in clear water, fall bass can be hard to reach. That’s why long casts are golden in the fourth quarter.[…]
It was black on the water. Of course, it was midnight.
We sat as quiet as death in Sidney Haynes’ 17-foot aluminum SeaArk boat. In the distance, automobile headlights flitted busily through New Roads, perched hard on the shores of False River, the big oxbow lake of Pointe Coupee Parish.[…]
Sidney Haynes begins building his juglines by cutting a 6- or 7-inch section off a foam swimming pool noodle. He then cuts about a 10-foot length of twisted, tarred black nylon twine from its spool. He wraps one end around the center of the noodle section and ties it tightly.[…]