Inshore Fishing
Live-bait trout-fishing tips
“If I don’t have live bait, I go home,” Tony Bruce said. “I’ve fished with Ed Sexton, who is excellent with plastic, and rather than fish, I just watched him fish.[…]
Fishing
Inshore Fishing
How Tony Bruce caught the fever
Tony Bruce has done a lot of things in his 63 years. He was a school teacher and coach, owned an offshore oil-field boat rental business and developed property in Zachary for the Copper Mill Golf Course. […]
Offshore Fishing
How to fish for snapper without oil rigs
It felt weird — catching snappers in the wide open.
No rig. Nothing to mark the spot. Nothing but open water.[…]
Inshore Fishing
Best trophy trout fishing tips
Fishing offshore rigs for speckled trout is different than what most anglers experience fishing in marshes, lakes and bays.[…]
Freshwater Fishing
How you can learn crappie-fishing tactics online
Remember when fishing was just for fun? When you loved to hang out with other fishermen and swap baits and stories?[…]
Offshore Fishing
Frekey’s snapper gear
Flipping bait to mangrove snappers just beneath the water’s surface is an entirely different game than dredging their red snapper cousins up from the deep.[…]
Inshore Fishing
Top trout fishing equipment
Besides Craig Hunt, who used level wind bass tackle, all three Bruce men used medium-heavy spinning tackle for their live bait fishing.[…]
Freshwater Fishing
Rx for summer crappie
It’s lucky that Mark Weldon is a “doc” because there is something seriously wrong with him.[…]
Offshore Fishing
Offshore fishing tip of the day
Fishing without eye protection is a pain, especially in the high-glare offshore environment. But keeping sunglasses clean is the devil.[…]
Inshore Fishing
Bruce finally scores STAR win
They say good things happen to nice guys.
On July 24, 2015, forty-nine days after our fishing trip — while fishing with trophy trout greats Ed Sexton and Dudley Vandenborre in the Faux Pas Lodge Invitational Rodeo — Tony Bruce finally caught his STAR-winning speckled trout.[…]
Bass Fishing
The best post-spawn tackle
For flipping and punching presentations, tournament pro Nick LeBrun stresses the importance of rod-and-reel setup.[…]
Freshwater Fishing
Why ‘Waldo?’
There is a story behind every crappie.com angler’s online name. Here’s Mark Weldon’s.[…]
Offshore Fishing
Why fish offshore of Louisiana?
Over a ritual pretrip supper with relatives at Leeville Seafood Restaurant in Leeville, Ricky Ruffin talked about his love affair with Louisiana fishing and cooking.[…]
Sidebars
How to make a butterfly bait for snapper
Butterfly baits are highly effective for targeting large bottom fish such as groupers and large red snappers. Here are the steps to cut your own.[…]
Inshore Fishing
Protected-water alternatives
High winds and rough seas can make fishing the beaches and rocks pretty much impossible, so what is the angler to do?[…]
Bass Fishing
What about the black blotches on bass?
With increasing regularity in recent years, fishermen have caught largemouth bass with black blotches on their heads, bodies or fins.[…]