Black Bayou Lake is now part of the Black Lake National Wildlife Refuge ( www.fws.gov/northlouisiana/blackbayoulake/), and is located about five miles north of Monroe on Highway 165.[…]
Schilling’s main fishing reels are old-fashioned Abu Garcia 5500 Ambassadeur bait casters. They are used whenever he fishes with worms, frogs or flukes.[…]
There is a low-cost, effective method for keeping red worms, grass shrimp or other live bait cool and comfortable while still making them easy to get to in the heat of summer.[…]
The VuDu Shrimp baits have taken this area by storm, and tackle shops are having trouble keeping them on the shelves.[…]
Kevin Schilling is only 33, but has popped up twice before in New Orleans area fishing news.[…]
Ray Jones loves to catch bream in many ways, but his basic, go-to rig is simple.[…]
Lighted public fishing piers[…]
For coastal fly anglers looking for alternatives to reds and trout, July brings a variety of pelagic species to inshore waters.[…]
Sabine Lake locations targeted by Adam Jaynes and Robby Trahan are fairly traditional.[…]
For anglers new to the area, Sabine Lake is an brackish estuary of stretching 23 miles long and nine miles that eventually pours into the Gulf of Mexico south of Port Arthur, Texas.[…]
Anglers may fish anywhere on the border lake with either a Louisiana or a Texas license.[…]
An Ocean Springs, Miss. man who spent a lot of his life in the Gulf of Mexico was killed by bacteria that attacked his body after spending a day in those very same waters.[…]
Specks are being caught now with live shrimp out of Delacroix, but Capt. Randall Shaw said the bite just hasn’t been as consistent moving into mid-summer as it’s been in years past.[…]
Simon Guidry was underweight, overmatched and outmanned when he picked a fight with a 305-pound Warsaw grouper Friday afternoon, but the Cutoff angler still managed to come out on top.[…]
Grand Isle guide Capt. John Chauvin of Capt. John’s Fin-tastic Charters gives his top tips for surf-fishing success.[…]
In this excerpt from Trout Masters Too: How the pros do it, Capt. Eric Dumas with Living a Dream Guide Service talks about his obsession for speckled trout, and what he uses to catch them.[…]