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Long Ride for Big Trout

Sometimes it’s flat, no breeze in your face. Sometimes there’s a chop and the wind ripples your clothes. And sometimes you don’t want to be out there at all in those near-offshore waters of the Gulf of Mexico.[…]

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Oh my Gauche!

The red torpedo cork hit the duckweed and just kept going. For a moment I could only imagine the terror that fat cricket must have experienced as it plunged below the water’s surface only to find itself being sucked between the lips of a giant warmouth.[…]

Ask Captain Paul

Can inshore, offshore maps be installed?

Dear Capt. Paul:

I have a GPSmap 188c, and am going to be fishing offshore and some inshore. Can I install both the Blue Chart and the MapSource on the same data card?I have a 64mb data card, and have used very little room, but didn’t know if the unit was capable of switching back and forth.[…]

Freshwater Fishing

Take a redear roadtrip to Caney

Anglers looking for a good road trip this weekend couldn’t make a better decision than to head up to Caney Lake in Jackson Parish to tangle with the giant chinquapin that’s turning the lake into a panfishing paradise.[…]

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Bedding Bream Bonds

Real fishing heroes aren’t made at the Bassmasters Classic or the FLW Championship. Real fishing heroes are made on ponds, lakes and creeks all across the United States every day as parents and grandparents take a kid on their first fishing trip.[…]

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Bet on Bistineau

They’ve had a bird’s eye view of the good and bad. They’ve seen Native Americans cracking mussel shells before Henry Shreve even thought about cracking up the logjam on the Red River.[…]