Fishing
Booyah Flex II
How many times have you flung a crankbait up toward a levee, riprap bank or dock piling only to have it crack or chip? Those days are over with the introduction of the Booyah Flex II, which has a foam-injected body.[…]
Fishing
Features
Sight fishing for marsh reds
“I really like sight fishing them with topwater hard baits, but you can’t do that while you’re guiding because you’ll wear them,” Lambert said.[…]
Fishing
Old Town’s Next
Old Town’s newest canoe is a durable, compact one-man fishing machine.[…]
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Poppin’ Bugs for Bream
Todd Schultz throws bugs at fish.
Not real ones; fake ones — foam spiders. But the fish are real.[…]
Bass Fishing
Long, lanky and in-demand
Bass bites can be hard to come by during the dog days of summer, as they spend most of their time sulking in deep offshore haunts.[…]
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Cover: August 2017
Mallory O’Brien snared this nice red snapper on a recent trip out of Fourchon during the 2017 extended federal season in the Gulf of Mexico, which is scheduled to close on Labor Day, Sept. 4.[…]
Bass Fishing
Night moves – Night Fishing primer
Why fish at night ?It’s easy to predict one answer—It’s not so blamed hot! Avoid the heat and traffic and bust bigger bass in the process.[…]
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Trout in the Throngs
I never could wrap my mind around why people would actually tune in to watch Jerry Springer.[…]
Fishing Tournaments
Video: Mandeville Elite Redfish angler falls from tower, still reels in $65,000 fish
Sometimes things are just meant to be.
Even in ideal sight-fishing conditions, redfish can spook, bend a hook, pop a line, just not eat or find myriad other ways to avoid the landing net.[…]
Bass Fishing
School is in session
It’s shaping up to be a different kind of August for bassin’ on Toledo Bend.[…]
Inshore Fishing
Search crews looking for possible missing boaters in Lake Pontchartrain
Search crews are currently looking for possible missing anglers after a 12-foot flat boat was discovered overturned Tuesday morning near the Highway 11 bridge in Lake Pontchartrain.[…]
Inshore Fishing
Pierre Part angler reels in Leeville leopard red
If the International Grand Isle Tarpon rodeo had a category for most spots on a redfish, Sally Chapman Mabile likely would have been the 2017 winner in a landslide.[…]
News Breaker
Potential new No. 1 Warsaw grouper caught during Grand Isle rodeo
You might say Dr. J.J. Tabor has become somewhat of a giant grouper specialist — and he just beat his own record Friday when he reeled in a massive 383-pounder during the International Grand Isle Tarpon Rodeo that once certified will likely became the state’s new No. 1-ranked Warsaw.[…]
Inshore Fishing
How to turn a Matrix Shad into a shrimp-imitation twitchbait
Many Louisiana coastal anglers are probably familiar with Matrix Shad soft plastic paddletail lures — and how deadly they are when jigging for speckled trout.[…]
Inshore Fishing
Turn your soft pastic paddletail lure into shrimp imitation twitchbait
Many Louisiana coastal anglers are probably familiar with Matrix Shad soft plastic paddletail lures — and how deadly they are when jigging for speckled trout.[…]
Fishing Tournaments
2017 Grand Isle Tarpon Rodeo final results
Here are final results from the 2017 International Grand Isle Tarpon Rodeo held this past weekend out of Sand Dollar Marina. […]