Fishing
Shibui Yana
The Shibui Yana is an innovative new fishing lure from Talon Lures that combines the foundation of a buzzbait with the dressings of a swim jig and a spinner.[…]
Fishing
Fishing
Automotive GPS units have leapt miles forward
Have you ever missed a turn, decided to go around the block and found yourself in a part of town you didn’t know existed?[…]
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Devil’s in the Details
Sometimes when you’re crappie fishing, it seems you can’t go wrong. When the white perch are biting, they gulp down just about anything you offer in any manner you choose.[…]
Inshore Fishing
Fish finder beep helps Lafitte guide catch winter redfish
During a recent trip with Captain Theophile Bourgeois with Bourgeois Charters out of Lafitte, we found ourselves in the back of a dead-end canal to the west of Bay L’Ours trying to entice redfish with plastics under popping corks.[…]
Bass Fishing
Dreams Come True Bass Classic set for March 6
On March 6, the 7th Annual Brian Harris Chevrolet Dreams Come True Bass Classic will be held at Doiron’s Landing in Stephensville.[…]
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Cover: March 2010
Across the Bayou State, temperatures are finally warming, turning bass and crappie into frisky feeders.[…]
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The Red Solution
“The solution to any problem — work, love, money, whatever — is to go fishing, and the worse the problem, the longer the trip should be.”[…]
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Causeway’s Troll
Once upon a time, not long ago, a troll lived under a bridge. Well, actually there were two bridges — long ones, 24 miles each.[…]
Features
Sulphur Mine Specks
Saltwater anglers have long been at the mercy of the wind more so than freshwater anglers. The very nature of fishing sprawling bays and open lagoons along a wide-open coast means wind direction and strength must be taken into account before and during every trip.[…]
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Piling On
Getting to a favorite fishing location shouldn’t require setting up a tent at the local boat landing to be there before everyone else.[…]
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Protein Factory
Saline-Larto. The name kind of has a ring to it, like a gang of bank robbers from the Wild West. Or maybe a gunslinger — I can hear it now, “Watch out, that’s the Saline-Larto Kid!”[…]
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Saltwater Series: Biloxi Marsh
Behind relentless wind, the beginning of the wholesale movement of speckled trout from the inside to the outside is the second-most frequently heard excuse anglers give for struggling to catch fish during March.[…]
Bass Fishing
Pinch-Point Bass
Dawn began to define what we had dubbed the “slough hole.” It was the first morning of rifle season in Area 1, and from 15 feet up an oak tree that was dropping acorns on my head, I remembered how this came to be the fourth deer stand I put up.[…]
Columns
Don’t like jigs? Try FlipSkirts
Andrea “Andi” Sanders of Milam, who has owned one of the nation’s leading artificial lure manufacturers since the mid-1990s, is proud of one of the company’s newest products, a skirt with a metal bead and two built-in rattles giving extra ooomph to a soft plastic, particularly a Texas-rigged plastic worm, plastic lizard or creature bait.[…]
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Think outside box for Verret bass
Most people are concerned about fishing for bass in the Atchafalaya Basin because the water can be up or down, it can be muddy or clear and it can change quickly.[…]
Currents
Specks liked winter less than we did
Winter officially ends this month.
For New Orleans Saints fans, the winter of 2009-10 will go down as the most enjoyable season in the entire history of the Bayou State.[…]