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
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.[…]
Inshore Fishing
Trips to The Pen a breeze
Many things may have changed about The Pen over the years, but the one thing that has remained the same is how conveniently located it is.[…]
Inshore Fishing
Stick with south and east banks for best bite
Being such a large lake to fish, The Pen can be somewhat intimidating for anglers who have never fished it before. The question of where to start can lead to second-guessing if the fish don’t immediately respond.[…]
Bass Fishing
Caney Chatter – An unusual Caney Lake tactic for winter bass fishing
The last thing that comes to most people’s minds when thinking about Caney Lake is a chatter bait. Kenny Covington isn’t most people. He is a bassaholic who isn’t afraid to buck conventional wisdom.[…]
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.[…]
Inshore Fishing
Construction of Breton Sound reef begun
Work began earlier this month on an artificial reef project in Breton Sound to increase fisheries habitat.[…]
Fishing
The Causeway Approach
Tedious. Boring. Congested. Long. Time-consuming.
Commuters use all these words and more to describe their daily 24-mile trek across the Lake Pontchartrain Causeway into the Big Easy.[…]
Fishing
Don’t forget winter preparations
As we move into the colder months of the year, you may be questioning whether or not you should winterize your boat. In Louisiana, our winters tend to be mild compared to our neighbors in the northern half of the country.[…]
Inshore Fishing
The Fourchon Freeze — Kayaks are perfect for catching redfish in Port Fourchon’s fish-filled waters
The Port of Fourchon is not the frozen tundra that Green Bay Packer fans so fondly depict their hometown as being. Nor do the surrounding waters of the port freeze, as some of those seen on the Discovery Channel’s “Deadliest Catch.”[…]
Bass Fishing
Giant salvinia forcing Caddo Lake anglers to change their game plan
Old dogs don’t learn new tricks.
This cliché reminds me of a bassin’ buddy with whom I fished Toledo Bend several years ago.
“If they don’t bite this jig, I ain’t gonna catch them,” he grumbled.
Unfortunately, it was a self-fulfilling prophecy.
Anybody predicting they aren’t going to catch bass at Caddo Lake right now because of all the giant salvinia will be just as accurate in his or her assessment.[…]
Inshore Fishing
Striped bass converge at Seabrook in Lake Pontchartrain
Many anglers already know that the areas on the southern side of Lake Pontchartrain held some monster trout, but the lake seems to have more secrets than it lets on. Around the Seabrook bridge, Josh Hall has been taking the opportunity to catch what almost seems like an intruder, this far south.[…]
Inshore Fishing
Hopedale Front — Tips for fishing specks after a cold front
Weather cycles pretty much make the fishing world go round in South Louisiana. The same cold fronts — along with the waning photoperiod — that drive speckled trout inland and the masses of white shrimp out also serve to sometimes violently flush the marsh when strong north winds make their way through the coastline.[…]