To appreciate the current trend in tackle requires a brief history lesson. Urban legend has it that the first fly rod was created in 10,000 B.C. when cavemen Frank Oog and JaMarcus Ugg cut and stripped a sapling and attached to it a line constructed of braided wooly mammoth hair.[…]
Fishermen often see porpoises (properly called bottlenose dolphins) breaking water near them while they are fishing. Many fishermen feel that porpoises scare fish away.[…]
Dear Capt. Paul:
Where are the Lake Salvador Christmas Trees?[…]
Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries (LDWF) Enforcement Division agents cited two fishermen for alleged fishing violations on Oct. 19 in Lafourche Parish.[…]
Captain Mike Daigle with Cast It Charters (985-331-8548) was smoking the redfish right before the last front blew through coastal Louisiana.[…]
I don’t think I will ever forget one day when my dad and I were working behind the parts counter at our dealership, Big M Marine. […]
Dear Capt. Paul:
I like to find potential spots on Google Earth. I have heard that the coordinates from Google Earth can be off a good bit from what a GPS unit says if you are not using the right datum.Can you tell me what datum I should when finding spots on Google Earth?[…]
As we reach the climax of a bizarre election year, what could be more bizarre than a website dedicated to having dogs vote? Thedogvote.com believes that “our nation lies in their paws.”[…]
This month, my choice of lakes for catching numbers of nice-sized bass will be False River in Pointe Coupee Parish near New Roads.[…]
Menhaden, usually called pogies in Louisiana, are certainly not a game fish. They never bite a hook, even by accident.[…]
Fish finders change their appearance and add new features each year, but the principles of sonar haven’t changed since World War II. […]
Figuring he had it tied on to fool anybody who happened to be sneaking around in his camouflaged Triton aluminum boat, I half expected Eddie Halbrook to clip off the blue/white tail-spinner that was tied to the line on the rod that he handed to me.[…]
Redfish are tearing up spoons in Lake Salvador,” the voice said on the other end of the phone. The inflection in the voice made it both a statement and an implied question.[…]
A half dozen great egrets and as many blue herons were scattered along the edge of a small cove, and every five minutes or so, they would take a few steps back.[…]
Some see the loss of jobs to foreign countries as an opportunity to complain about how all our jobs are going overseas. Some see the loss of jobs to foreign countries as an opportunity to retrain themselves for a better job.[…]
After several days in a row of having to stay home because of strong winds, Captain Damon McKnight with Super Strike Charters (800-318-1720) finally got to get out a couple days at the end of last week.[…]