Currents
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Biologists are dorks.[…]
Fishing
Inshore Fishing
Duck ponds around Madison Bay full of redfish
It didn’t take Capt. John Pellegrin with Top Water Charters (985-852-9560) very long to sum up his fishing fortunes for this past week.[…]
Inshore Fishing
Pontchartrain bridges starting to turn on
A few spotty reports are starting to surface from Lake Pontchartrain as the trout begin to spread out on the bridges to the east, and Captain Eric Dumas (985-705-1244) reported that he and his customers had great trips on Tuesday and Wednesday.[…]
Inshore Fishing
Hopedale trout bite moving out
If Captain Gene Dugas’ (985-640-0569) most recent trip out of Hopedale was any indicator, it looks like the speckled trout to the east of New Orleans are starting to get more and more active every day.[…]
Inshore Fishing
DuLarge specks and reds hitting swimbaits
Captain Marty LaCoste with Absolute Fishing Charters (985-856-4477) says it has stayed windy down in DuLarge for the better part of a week now, and the cooler nights haven’t allowed the water temperature to climb much higher than 60 degrees.[…]
Inshore Fishing
Beat the wind with reds in Garden Island Bay
These wicked winds are forcing guides to cancel trips all across coastal Louisiana, but I bumped into at least one that was able to make a few trips this week.[…]
Bass Fishing
Dazed and Confused
My first experience fishing the Tchefuncte River in St. Tammany Parish was the trolling motor going out on my brand-new Bass Tracker TX-17.[…]
Contents
Cover: March 2009
Bass pro Jason Pittman knows there’s no better month for catching bass than March.[…]
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Fantastic Four
Capt. Papa Joe Bush maneuvered his bay boat through the Pen and down toward the Texaco Canals as an approaching cold front hung ominously low in the sky just behind us.[…]
Fishing
Flushing will save you big bucks
I have asked many customers how often they flush out their engines, and the answer is almost always the same. They tell me they flush their engines every time they use them.[…]
Contents
Mr. Crappie
For most of the past decade, I’ve talked with 65-year-old Bobby Phillips on a weekly basis, picking his brain for a fishing report I put together for newspapers, magazines and radio.[…]
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5 Spinnerbait Secrets
Outside the occasional marsh bass that falls for my redfish spinnerbait, I can’t tell you the last time I had a really good spinnerbait bite in a lake or river.[…]
Fishing
Your owner’s manual is your friend
If there is anything worse than a complicated sounder or chart plotter, it’s an owner’s manual that doesn’t give you the traction to climb the unit’s learning curve. My[…]
Columns
Stay warm, catch fish in March
This month, I’ll be fishing the Delacroix area, near the east side of New Orleans, and trying to stay warm. The Caernarvon Diversion there lets Mississippi River water run out through the marsh, which has helped rebuild the marsh and caused a big boom to the bass fishing.[…]
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Helping Mother Nature
Television viewers from the 1970s will easily remember the irate words, “It’s not nice to fool Mother Nature,” followed by a peal of thunder and a bolt of lightning.[…]
Columns
Deepwater weirdo is a delicacy
What Louisiana saltwater fish is colored like a rainbow, lives in tunnels, can weigh more than 30 pounds and tastes like lobster? […]