Crappie/Bream
August’s Best Bets
Saltwater
Where: Grand Isle: Caminada Pass, Barataria Pass and Elmer’s Island beach
What: Bull reds and jack crevalle in the passes, and trout on the beach[…]
Fishing
Bass Fishing
Tip of the day
“A push pole is an absolute must to fish here,” Charlie King half-grimaced and half-grinned. […]
Bass Fishing
Four seasons of the Red
The Red River Waterway system offers a huge array of bass habitats, including stump fields, backwater lakes, the original river’s banks, rock piles, log jams, reeds (cut grass), oxbow ridges and shorelines, as well as lily pad fields that have bounced back after the floods.[…]
Bass Fishing
Off limits
Pools No. 5 and 4 are large complex areas because a variety of habitats and properties were flooded by the 7- to 8-foot rise in water levels that followed damming. The two pools are where Charlie King focuses his Red River guiding efforts, and also where Trent Toups does much of his personal bass fishing.[…]
Bass Fishing
The big challenge on the Red
The Red River system has lots of bass —and it has big bass. Catching fish isn’t the biggest challenge that visiting anglers face. It’s navigation.[…]
Fishing
Stephensville man arrested for alleged DWI, drug charges
Enforcement agents with the Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries arrested a St. Mary Parish man on Tuesday for alleged fishing, boating and drug violations on Lake Palourde.[…]
Fishing
Lafayette man cited for fake mayday calls on False River
Enforcement agents with the Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries cited a Lafayette man on Monday for allegedly making false mayday calls from his boat on False River.[…]
Bass Fishing
How to find bass in the Atchafalaya Basin
Unless the lower Spillway turned on in late July, at least one Morgan City bass angler will be fishing on the other side of the East Atchafalaya Basin Protection Levee in August.[…]
Bass Fishing
Mister Twister’s Nightcrawler
Glen Freeman of Zwolle has a new weapon in his bass fishing arsenal when he goes out to Toledo Bend. So does Zack Hughes of Quitman, Texas, who boated a 10-plus-pounder on the first day he fished with it at Lake Fork.[…]
Inshore Fishing
Marrero man cited for alleged fishing violations
Enforcement agents with the Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries cited a 33-year-old Jefferson Parish man for alleged fishing violations Saturday in the Barataria Waterway.[…]
Inshore Fishing
Marsh Man Masson vid: Reds first, then offshore fish in inshore waters
Sure, the heat is suffocating. You can barely stand to be outside, and you spend your sleeping hours dreaming of crisp leaves, pumpkin cake and October cool fronts.[…]
Field Notes
Get real-time tidal conditions — right on the water
Get a good real-time reading of the wind’s impact on tidal estimates using a piling or other stationary object in the water.[…]
Crappie/Bream
Slick tops and spiders for Ouachita crappie
This time of the year, fishing has slowed down quite a bit, but it isn’t the fish — it’s the fishermen. You’ll find crappie fishing the Ouachita River.[…]
Fishing Hotspots
Delacroix’s redfish summer
Previously, on a typical August day, Delacroix anglers would head out into Black Bay and fish the same islands and structures that have produced trout for decades. Stone Island, Lonesome Island, Belle Island, the Wreck, the Black Tanks, Iron Banks and Battledore Reef were landmarks thick with trout and consistent producers, year after year.[…]
Fishing Hotspots
Minimal tackle key for Grand Isle beach bite
No matter what kind of fishing you’re doing in the marsh, finding clean water is almost always helpful.[…]
Fishing
LDWF investigating two separate weekend boating fatalities
Two men died in separate boating accidents Saturday, one in Lake Pontchartrain and the other in Iberia Parish, according to the Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries.[…]