Flounder aren’t just for ladies
On a fishing trip last spring, one of the fishermen in a boat with me commented that he sure hoped we would catch some flounder because his wife had asked him specifically to bring some home.[…]
On a fishing trip last spring, one of the fishermen in a boat with me commented that he sure hoped we would catch some flounder because his wife had asked him specifically to bring some home.[…]
Generally, by July, the Mississippi River will have started falling, which causes the water in the Atchafalaya River to begin falling.[…]
For only the fourth time in 82 years the International Grand Isle Tarpon Rodeo has been cancelled. Its cancellation leaves a void in many saltwater anglers that will be hard to fill. The rodeo is the culmination of summer.[…]
Marsh bass have a rough life. Unlike their fat kin that bide their time lazily lounging under logs in lakes, marsh bass spend their days battling tidal current, searching for something to eat and evading schools of roaming redfish.[…]
You know what they say in baseball — three strikes and you’re out. Well, I’m mighty close to strike three.[…]
It’s hard to know what all the hurry is about, but you would think running to a place called Turtle Bayou, by name alone, there wouldn’t be any rush.[…]
I wonder if Iberville would have ever made it back to Ship Island had he carried sliding corks with him in his pirogue as he passed through the waters he named Maurapas and Pontchartrain.[…]
I remember watching Hank Parker fishing with a spincast rod and reel on his television show several years ago. He was fishing for crappie, and he claimed that using the push-button reel and limber rod allowed him to present his jig to fish that were virtually unmolested right in the middle of a bustling lake.[…]
Even more water in Barataria Bay, Terrebonne and Plaquemines parishes are available for anglers this weekend, the Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries announced.[…]
The western-most portion of the Barataria Basin, along with a stretch of Bayou Lafourche, reopened for fishing today (June 23) at 2:30 p.m., the Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries reported.[…]
The second drowning victim, an 18-year-old Gramercy woman, of a June 20 boating accident was recovered in Lake Palourde today (June 23), the Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries reported.[…]
Shooting docks for crappie has definitely caught on quicker outside Louisiana than it has within the borders of the Bayou State.[…]
The body of a 39-year-old Donaldsonville man who drowned in Lake Palourde was found this morning, the Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries reported.[…]
Waters west of Galliano, including Pointe-aux-Chenes Wildlife Management Area, and a portion of waters south of Cocodrie were reopened for recreational and commercial fishing today just before noon today (June 17) by the Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries.[…]
Stan Mathes, the Plaquemines Parish director of economic development and tourism, fished a volunteer fireman fishing rodeo last Saturday.[…]
All of Breton Sound and a large portion of Chandeleur Sound reopened for fishing just before 7 p.m. this evening (June 15) after “shoreline cleanup assessment … indicates no oil in these areas,” the Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries announced.[…]