Columns
Mississippi cooking … Louisiana style
Ricky Ruffin of Bay Springs, Miss., shares recipes for Panéed Snapper with Meunière Sauce and Cajun Cioppino.[…]
Fishing
Inshore Fishing
Which artificial shrimp is best?
Buy enough live shrimp, and eventually you might have to sell off one of your children. But no one can deny speckled trout love the tasty crustaceans, and many anglers simply refuse to leave the dock without a couple hundred of them enjoying a nice Jacuzzi bath in the baitwell.[…]
Fishing Hotspots
Old Man River holds all the cards in Venice
This fall was setting up to be epic for anglers launching out of Venice. The Mississippi River had been nice and low for a couple of months, and its waters were that beautiful shade of green that signals crazy fishing action.[…]
Bass Fishing
Toledo Bend cool down
Bass anglers who frequent Toledo Bend can’t wait for hoodie weather in this part of the state.[…]
Bass Fishing
Chillin’ on the Calcasieu
Southwest Louisiana’s bass anglers were on Cloud Nine a few weeks ago because the Calcasieu River was in the best shape it has ever been going into September.[…]
Fishing Hotspots
Shell Beach in the fall
October means less fuel, less heat and better fishing, according to Shell Beach area guide Capt. Jacques ‘Jakamo’ Laboureur (504-303-1494).[…]
Bass Fishing
Bump-and-run for Claiborne’s bass
It’s football season and many good defensive backs rely on the bump and run when they are trying to slow down the other team’s receiver. With the bump-and-run, the DB bumps the receiver to throw him off his game. […]
Crappie/Bream
Henderson Lake for sac-a-lait
It’s easy to find the prime fishing spot to catch bass and sac-a-lait in October at Henderson Lake.[…]
Fishing Hotspots
Golden Meadow is golden in October
“Hooray for October,” my old friend Capt. T-Man Cheramie (985-677-6294) said. “The biggest threat of tropical storms has passed, the weather is cooler, the humidity is lower and the fish are on the prowl.”[…]
Bass Fishing
Follow the water for Bistineau largemouths
When bass anglers approach a lake they haven’t fished in a while, their first question usually has something to do with what the fish are hitting.[…]
Fishing Hotspots
Don’t dismiss Lafitte
Lafitte is commonly known for relatively small trout — but this fall could be quite different, according to Capt. Lane Zimmer. He said a tough year last year could benefit the area this autumn, which means anglers will spend more time throwing speckled trout in their ice chest than on the measuring stick.[…]
Fishing Hotspots
Monster reds at Marsh Island
Hot weather has redfish right where many Acadiana fishermen want them this summer — in the deep holes of bayous inside Marsh Island. And the good news is they’ll still be there in September.[…]
News Breaker
Speckled-trout bite finally kicks off
Baseball, it is said, is a game of inches. So, too, is speckled trout fishing.[…]
News Breaker
Free-diver shoots pending world-record tripletail near Venice
Blake Ittmann has been free-diving the waters south of Venice for only four years, but in that time he’s become pretty selective in what he shoots. Ittmann and his buddies could absolutely load the boat with tripletail at some of the platforms they frequent now, but there’s not a whole lot of challenge in that.[…]
News Breaker
Marsh Man Masson vid: Afternoon the time for hot speckled trout bite
So far, the late summer and early fall season has proven to be one of the oddest in years in South Louisiana. The weather is unseasonably hot, with the area absolutely destroying high-temperature records many days.[…]
Bass Fishing
Marsh Man Masson vid: Punching bass and redfish in the face — seriously!
Marsh Man Masson loves this time of year for a number of reasons, but not the least of which is the Mississippi River falls to its lowest levels of the year, and that sucks bass out of their secure hiding spots, and makes them very easy to catch along the roseau cane-lined passes, bayous and canals south of Venice, La.[…]