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Yes, buffalo are fish
Actually, buffalo are three species of fish rather than one. No one knows from where the odd name for the creatures is derived. But their scientific names are almost certainly taken from their common name.[…]
Fishing
Bass Fishing
Best Caney Lake chatter bait colors
It’s hard to get me to believe that lure color makes much of a difference.[…]
Bass Fishing
Chatter baits vs. swimming jigs
At first glance, there doesn’t seem to be that much difference between where and how someone would fish a chatter-type bait versus a swimming jig.[…]
Bass Fishing
Suspended Animation —Jerkbait tips for wintertime bass fishing
Cold water, shallow water, clear water; plenty of situations make it hard to get fish to bite. For largemouth bass, one of the biggest mistakes anglers make in these conditions is fishing too fast and pulling baits through the strike zone with only a brief window of opportunity for predators to make their move. […]
Bass Fishing
Jerkbait enhancement
With any jerkbait, a suspending posture at rest is usually what you want, but some days find the fish most interested in falling baits.[…]
Bass Fishing
Suspend in the salt
When winter pushes trout and redfish into deeper canals and inner marsh arteries, suspending baits often earn the attention denied to sinking and faster-moving baits.[…]
Bass Fishing
Tackle up
West Monroe’s Jim Dillard throws his jerkbaits on a long rod of 6-foot-10 to 7-2, but nothing too heavy.[…]
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Cold fish — Winter fishing tips for Biloxi Marsh trout, redfish
According to the Biloxi Marsh Lands Corporation, the Biloxi Marsh is an estuary network of 210,000 acres of coastal wetlands. That network was crushed by Katrina, and battered and bruised by countless hurricanes and tropical storms before and since.[…]
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Back and Forth — Top winter fishing tips for Delacroix trout
If you live in the northern tier of the United States during the month of January, you’d better really like your wife.[…]
Inshore Fishing
Live shrimp makes things a little easier
Believe it or not, live shrimp are often still available in Delacroix for much of this month.[…]
Fishing
Scorpion Marine Coatings
Scorpion Marine Coatings provide a durable, high traction, non-skid surface for your boat deck, dock ramps, storage compartments or platforms.[…]
Inshore Fishing
Everybody’s working for the weekend
Delacroix is less than an hour from New Orleans, and about two hours from Baton Rouge, so day trips there are easy.[…]
Inshore Fishing
Z-Man offers something truly different
Louisiana anglers, by and large, hate soft-plastic baits that tear up quicker than wet toilet paper.[…]
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The more things change — Fishing for trout, bass, redfish at The Pen
Change is inevitable in coastal marsh.
The tide gives when it rises and takes away when it falls.
Land piles up in some places while washing away in others.
Fish that you couldn’t stop from biting one day cease to exist the next.
Nowhere is this change more evident than in The Pen. One of the most-famous fishing holes in all of Southeast Louisiana, this Lafitte hotspot once wasn’t even a lake.[…]
Inshore Fishing
Try trout first, reds later
Having a bit of a game plan provides an easier pathway to locating and catching fish at The Pen during the winter.[…]
Fishing
Lowrance introduces new touchscreen unit, custom contour mapping service
Do you have a favorite fishing area that isn’t mapped as accurately as you’d like? Now you can do it yourself with any Lowrance HDS multifunction unit, including new models with touchscreen control.[…]