“Well, at least the pork chop sandwich is good.” A half hour earlier, at 5 a.m., I stepped out of my truck under the Seabrook Bridge and a 20-mph wind hit me in the face like I had been smacked with a cast-iron frying pan.[…]
Today, the Red River is a fishing mecca. Both largemouth and white bass prowl around its rock jetties, huge catfish lurk in the deep holes and crappie school up on the oxbow lakes.[…]
If you were to list your all-time favorite things to do on the water during a lazy Louisiana summer, where would you rank catching crappie on a cypress-tree lake? Probably not too high, huh?[…]
If fishing is like religion, then fly fishing is high church,” news anchor Tom Brokaw has said. And[…]
It started with a casual greeting just before daylight recently when I bumped into Capt. Charlie Thomason at the dock of Blackie Campo’s Marina in Shell Beach.[…]
Dear Capt. Paul:
I’m trying to find the coordinates for Five Wells in Breton Sound.[…]
Seldom do anglers associate “freshwater” and “big-game fish” together. But Louisiana, with the continent’s largest rivers, large and small lakes and reservoirs, vast freshwater marshes and seemingly endless miles of small rivers, bayous and streams, is home to several species of large freshwater fish.[…]
Later this month, members of Louisiana and Mississippi fly fishing clubs will be descending upon Grand Isle for their annual surf-fishing extravaganza. […]
I love to fish the Delacroix area, especially Lake Lery, at any time of the year, but especially during July. If you fish around Delacroix this month, you’ll catch 20 or 30 bass and the same number of speckled trout and redfish.[…]
Computerizing fish finders and other marine electronics has been a good news/bad news proposition.[…]
It wasn’t very hard to tell where the redfish were biting in Little Lake and Bay L’Ours a couple days ago. Captain “Papa” Joe Bush (504-689-3728) wanted to get an early start because he knew word had traveled quickly, and he wanted to get to the hot spots before everybody else.[…]
There are no summer doldrums here. Read this issue to put specks, crappie and much more in your boat.[…]
There are no summer doldrums here. Read this issue to put specks, crappie and much more in your boat.[…]
Wait until the sun goes down, and you’ll find the speckled trout fishing heats up as the temperature cools down.[…]
Twelve of the last 15 days have produced 100-trout limits for Captain Chad Dufrene (985-637-6357) and his customers, and the only reason he missed on the other days was bad weather and wind.[…]
You think red snapper fishing requires heavy fishing tackle, a ton of lead weight and messy, stinky natural baits to be successful?[…]