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.[…]
On March 6, the 7th Annual Brian Harris Chevrolet Dreams Come True Bass Classic will be held at Doiron’s Landing in Stephensville.[…]
Across the Bayou State, temperatures are finally warming, turning bass and crappie into frisky feeders.[…]
“The solution to any problem — work, love, money, whatever — is to go fishing, and the worse the problem, the longer the trip should be.”[…]
Once upon a time, not long ago, a troll lived under a bridge. Well, actually there were two bridges — long ones, 24 miles each.[…]
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.[…]
Getting to a favorite fishing location shouldn’t require setting up a tent at the local boat landing to be there before everyone else.[…]
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!”[…]
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.[…]
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.[…]
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.[…]
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.[…]
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.[…]
No, I don’t mean those wonderful Louisiana canned red beans. I am talking about the fish, Caranx Crysos, a.k.a. hardtails.[…]
Dear Capt. Paul:
I have heard a lot about two locations south of Dularge — Enstar and the Mardi Gras. What is the easiest way to get there from Dularge, Dulac or Cocodrie.[…]
It seems that the boating season is getting off to a slow start this year. I wonder if it has something to do with a certain football team winning the Super Bowl.[…]