Louisiana Sportsman

Redfish plentiful out of Dularge

September 22, 2016 Patrick Bonin

When September rolls around, speckled trout are just starting to get the itch to head back to inside waters where they’ll ride out the fall and winter.[…]

Kayaking in Venice: Redfish plentiful in Yellow Cotton Bay

September 21, 2016 Patrick Bonin

Some kayak anglers might be hesitant to toss a popping cork — attached to a twirling 2-foot leader with a Vudu shrimp dangling from the business end — straight at stands of leaning, swaying, hook-grabbing roseau cane, but not Capt. Brian Sherman.[…]

September weather fires up Poverty Point crappie

September 21, 2016 Kinny Haddox

Poverty Point Reservoir in Delhi is famous for whopper crappie — and lots of them. Local angler Twayne Hosea is famous for catching both, but that’s mostly in the spring. However, that isn’t the only time Poverty’s crappie fishing gets rich.[…]

Port Sulphur man arrested for alleged oyster violations

September 20, 2016 From News Reports

A Port Sulphur man accused of taking oyster from polluted waters for a third time last spring was arrested Monday after information taken from his cellphone linked him to off-limits areas, according to a release from the Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries.[…]

LDWF stock assessment: Speckled trout not overfished

September 20, 2016 From News Reports

The Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries on Tuesday released long-awaited stock assessments on several species — including speckled trout — that were being withheld because of ongoing litigation from the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill. […]

Ponchatoula man dies in Lake Pontchartrain on Friday

September 20, 2016 From News Reports

A Ponchatoula man died in Lake Pontchartrain Friday afternoon after his 14-foot boat was found partially submerged just east of the Causeway Bridge, nine miles from the north shore of Mandeville.[…]

ICAST 2016 – Pedal yak explosion

September 16, 2016 Chris Holmes

Every July, the International Convention of Allied Sportfishing Trades descends on Orlando, Fla., for what is the world’s largest sportfishing trade show.[…]

Knot of the month: Loop Knot

September 16, 2016 Craig Holt

Anglers Robbie Hall and Tommy Jones tie their soft-plastic lures to their leaders the same way — with a loop knot — and they get results.[…]

Governor supports state management of red snapper — but not H.R. 3094

September 16, 2016 From News Reports

On the same day embattled Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries secretary Charlie Melancon called a full staff meeting to tell employees he was remaining in charge of the agency, Gov. John Bel Edwards said he still believed in state management of red snapper — even though funding concerns prevented him from getting behind a congressional bill that would give the Gulf states full control of the fishery. […]

Two Breaux Bridge men die in Bayou Teche

September 16, 2016 From News Reports

Enforcement agents with the Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries recovered the bodies of two Breaux Bridge men in Bayou Teche Thursday afternoon after they did not return from an early-morning fishing trip in a pirogue.[…]

Throw frogs to fish you can see

September 16, 2016 Joel Masson

Capt. Casey Brunning loves topwater fishing, so when conditions are right, he brings the frog-fishing game into sight-fishing redfish.[…]

Pros and cons to spinners

September 15, 2016 Jerald Horst

Tony Landry explained why spinnerbaits work.

“They are profile baits that effectively mimic different things that fish eat,” Landry said. “The rubber skirts we use pulse in the water, and the blades also pulse and reflect the flash of food fish.”[…]