Gold Rush
Gold spoons are like the Dallas Cowboys; you either love them or hate them, and there isn’t any room in the middle.[…]
Gold spoons are like the Dallas Cowboys; you either love them or hate them, and there isn’t any room in the middle.[…]
When Lake Pontchartrain regular Chas Champagne told me to meet him at the Rigolets Marina at 4:15 in the morning, I wondered if he had lost his mind.[…]
Although he’s starting to spend more time in the deer woods in preparation for the upcoming hunting season, Captain Ryan Young with Avid Angler Fishing Charters (985-855-5909) out of Bayou DuLarge says he’s been on the water enough lately to know that the redfish and bass are slamming swimbaits in Lake De Cade.[…]
The recreational season for red snapper will close this Friday, Aug. 14 at midnight, in Louisiana and federal waters, the Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries (LDWF) reminded fishermen today.[…]
“An almost forgotten historic site near Many (the Civil War’s Sabine Breastworks) is on its death bed. It will die slowly as it gives way to progress and surrenders to the waters of the giant Toledo Bend Reservoir.”
— Norman Richardson, The (Shreveport) Times[…]
In today’s uncertain economic climate, many boat manufacturers and dealers are reporting lower-than-normal new boat sales. I believe I have discovered a new trend. I call it the boat makeover.[…]
The gaudy neon lights of the Treasure Chest Casino dominated the pre-dawn darkness at the Williams Boulevard Boat Launch in Kenner.[…]
When the Freeman-Custis Expedition explored the Red River in 1806, it became apparent that the river’s odd features hampered its commercial potential.[…]
We were working a large cove off Delacroix’s Bay Shallow, when the redfish gave its location away with a swirling turn much too large to be a mullet.[…]
We didn’t get very far after Captain CT Williams with Big Fish Charters (504-BIGFISH) turned his boat to the southeast as he entered the MRGO from Bayou La Loutre.[…]
Gary Yamamoto Custom Baits’ Swim Senko has gotten into the swim of things in the swimbait market in a big way. How big?[…]
I seldom pass up an invitation to go fishing, especially from a friend with a new boat. Sometimes the invitation includes an opportunity to solve an electronics problem, but I don’t mind. It usually gives me grist for a column.[…]
Dear Capt. Paul:
How do you get to the Sandy Point rigs from Grand Isle?[…]
In the marsh, almost everything eats shrimp. And in Louisiana, almost everyone eats shrimp.When I moved to New Orleans 40 years ago, I developed a friendship with my barber, a man named Morris Trippi.[…]
I will miss Michael Jackson. The King of Pop and I had several things in common: We were both carbon-based life forms, we both breathed oxygen, and we both loved children, but perhaps in different ways.[…]
What is it about a place where lots of anglers go to catch fish, and none of them want to admit where they’ve been going? By lots of anglers, I mean so many going there that it looks like a four-lane bank drive-thru on payday afternoon.[…]