Offshore Fishing
CCA STAR Offshore
STAR isn’t just about trout and redfish and in this episode we went offshore with Rad Trascher of CCA and Voodoo Charters to find out exactly what you need to catch to win.[…]
Fishing
Bass Fishing
Louisiana Tech mechanical engineers hook up with Rat-L-Trap
Layton Crawford, Derek Kennedy and Lance Reeves are pretty serious outdoorsmen who try to work in bass fishing trips every available weekend.[…]
Bass Fishing
3 productive lures for postspawn bass
Bass fishermen hate the thought of having to catch fish that have just finishing spawning and are often acting sickly, but sometimes they just have to figure out how to catch these finicky fish.[…]
Inshore Fishing
Three men convicted of oyster violations in Terrebonne Parish, LDWF says
Judge Randy Bethancourt found three Houma men guilty of oyster violations on Monday in connection with an incident on the Sister Lake Public Oyster Seed Reservation late last year, according to a press release from the Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries.[…]
Bass Fishing
Find the right grass for heavy stringers
Matt Loetscher knows there are some keys to finding the beds of vegetation most likely to hold big bass this time of year.[…]
Fishing
Top tips for trout success
A person can’t successfully charter fish for 28 years without accumulating a bag of tricks. Zutie Auenson, who fishes out of Grand Isle, is no exception. Here are some of his favorite tactics to stay on trout:[…]
Fishing Tournaments
CCA Louisiana STAR tournament starts Saturday
Starting this weekend, anglers across the Louisiana coast should be on the lookout for a bright red tag in any redfish or speckled trout they catch.[…]
Inshore Fishing
How do you estimate the weight of a redfish?
The story of the catch and release May 15 of what would almost certainly have been a Louisiana state-record redfish evoked a predictable response on social media — cries that the fish in the photo just couldn’t be big enough to make the record books, much less shatter the current 61-pound state record.[…]
Inshore Fishing
Potential No. 1 redfish caught, released in Venice
A giant redfish that would have almost certainly broken the current state record was caught — and then released — last Friday afternoon in Venice along the shoreline outside of South Pass.[…]
Inshore Fishing
Slamming speckled trout with live croakers
I’ve had the opportunity to catch speckled trout any number of ways: under a popping cork, on plastic paddle-tail lures and artificial shrimp, throwing topwaters and jerkbaits and on Carolina and drop-shot rigs outfitted with live shrimp — but never, ever by free-lining live croakers.[…]
Fishing
Swimbait hook transforms craw worms
While chatting with Z-Man’s Glenn Young during the recent Louisiana Sportsman Show, I picked up one of the rod segments and started hopping one of the lures in the booth’s water tank.[…]
News Breaker
Louisiana’s Top 10 May trout hotspots
Speckled trout should be practically begging to get into your ice chests this month — if you know where to focus your efforts.[…]
Fishing
Top 6 speckled trout baits you have to have
May is when everything really begins to come together to produce great trout fishing conditions. Warming weather pushes water temps up. The rivers begin to subside from spring rains and snow melts up north.[…]
Freshwater Fishing
Bream-fishing mistakes to avoid
When Charles Johnson was asked what mistakes people make when they fish bream beds, his answer was simple: “noise, noise, noise.”[…]
Freshwater Fishing
A primer on worms
To an artificial lure-only snob, an earthworm is an earthworm. Not to knowledgeable freshwater live-bait anglers, thought.[…]
Freshwater Fishing
Best baits and tackle for Toledo Bend crappie
Jackson has fished Toledo Bend most of his life. He was a competitive bass angler early in his career, qualifying for the 1982 Bassmaster Classic in 1982 on the Alabama River.[…]