Inshore Fishing
Pontchartrain alternatives are strong when water’s dirty
With the strong cool front that is forecasted for this weekend, many anglers will write the Lake Pontchartrain area off for several days.[…]
Fishing
Inshore Fishing
Hopedale fishing has been riding high, but weekend weather could be a spoiler
Friday the 13th isn’t a day renowned for its good luck. If there is a community on earth that has a superstitious bent it’s the fishing community.[…]
Inshore Fishing
Davis Pond Speck Effect
While telling me about how the Davis Pond Diversion has affected speckled trout fishing around Lafitte, Capt. Theophile Bourgeois mentioned something that I don’t think he realized provided a perfect contrast of the life before and after the levee break started flowing.[…]
Inshore Fishing
Venice action to get boost by falling river
The Mississippi River is supposed to be 6.5 feet at New Orleans Carrollton Gauge by Monday (April 23), and that has Capt. Owen “Big O” Langridge chomping at the bit.[…]
Inshore Fishing
Angler’s Royale offers inshore anglers chance for big payout in festival atmosphere
Are you the best speckled-trout angler in Southeast Louisiana?
It’ll take you only $50 to find out.[…]
Inshore Fishing
Lafitte anglers have hands full with Dupont redfish
An old commercial for Barq’s root beer said that New Orleans’ favorite beverage had “bite.”[…]
Fishing
Pearl River cleanup work starting soon
The U.S. Coast Guard has informed St. Tammany Parish Government that they will begin picking up debris from the Pearl River Navigational Canal between Locks One and Two within the next several weeks.[…]
Inshore Fishing
Winds a blessing for Magnolia redfish anglers
All this southerly wind has blown an ocean’s worth of water into the marshes around Magnolia.[…]
Apex Predator
Go ‘knotless’ for more inshore fishing success
As the weather warms, saltwater fishing heats up. I can always find the fish using tandem rigged plastic or live bait. I have tricks for using either these artificial or live bait setups with or without a cork without ever tying a knot to change my rig.[…]
Breaking News
Feds expected to add more days to snapper season
The National Marine Fisheries Service will tomorrow (April 12) publish in the federal register new rules for the 2012 red snapper season, according to Jeff Angers, president of the Center for Coastal Conservation.[…]
Fishing
Two men arrested for shark violations in Plaquemines Parish
Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries Enforcement Division agents participated in a joint enforcement patrol that resulted in two men arrested for alleged fishing violations in Plaquemines Parish on April 8.[…]
Inshore Fishing
Fish showing up early at Grand Isle
Normally, anglers have to wait until the month of May for consistent action around Grand Isle, but this is definitely not a normal year.[…]
Bass Fishing
Tempting Tubes
Designed to imitate a range of forage, tubes are among the most versatile and productive baits in a bass angler’s arsenal.[…]
Inshore Fishing
Vanishing Eden
The smoke/glitter sparkle beetle arched through the air toward a handful of scraggly, brush sticks poking out of the water — the few remains of the live black mangroves that once covered a substantial island.[…]
Inshore Fishing
DuLarge speck action ‘the best ever’
If you’re not catching speckled trout right now, it’s probably because you’re not fishing DuLarge.[…]
Fishing Tournaments
Bass tourney born from Facebook group
In Super Bowl XXIV in New Orleans, Joe Montana and the San Francisco 49ers absolutely annihilated the Denver Broncos, 55-10.[…]