Dear Capt. Paul:
I will be spending a week in the Grand Isle area the first of February with my 26-foot Robalo, and would like to know if you could point me in the right direction for amberjack, grouper and possibly tuna.[…]
Across the state of Louisiana, there is a lack of detailed scientific information about the movement of what ichthyologists would call the spotted sea trout, otherwise known to thousands of avid saltwater anglers as the speckled trout.[…]
“Why don’t you and your brother come fishing with us Monday?” the voice on the phone said. “Monday is New Year’s Eve, and isn’t it supposed to be cold?” I asked.[…]
Bass pro Jason Pittman caught this lunker on the Tchefuncte River, but our team of experts picked other water bodies as the most likely to deliver trophies this spring.[…]
Have you ever seen one of those largemouth-bass mailboxes that some people have in front of their houses? Imagine taking one of those boxes and putting a couple treble hooks on the bottom of it.[…]
The recent heavy rains in Southwest Louisiana weren’t enough to shut the trout bite off at Calcasieu Lake, and Capt. Jeff Poe with Big Lake Guide Service (337) 598-3268 has continued to catch a bunch of fish the past several days.[…]
The stretch of water between Yellow Cotton Bay and the Buras Canal has been pretty productive for Capt. Shawn Lanier lately.[…]
I remember 8th grade like it was yesterday. The only problem is there are a lot of things about 8th grade that I don’t want to remember.[…]
When I opened my e-mail recently, I found this note from a boater in Kentucky: “Hank, I found you on the web and hoping you can help. I was on Lake Cumberland in Kentucky yesterday, and had to be towed in.[…]
Capt. C.T. Williams knows that winter often offers the absolute best saltwater action of the year.[…]
Gazing from atop the Empire Bridge in southern Plaquemines Parish, one can see literally thousands of white PVC pipes sticking up from atop oyster beds.[…]
Capt. C.T. Williams’ web address is thebigfish.net. But during this season of the year, the marshes surrounding his home port of Hopedale deliver not quite exactly what his Internet name implies.[…]
Early GPS units were pretty clunky by today’s standards — and approximately 30 times more expensive. Today’s units are faster, more accurate, and most importantly, have a lot more memory.[…]
In January, I’ll be fishing the marshes around the Bayou Black area, located between Houma and Morgan City, below Highway 90, where Kenyon Hill won the first BASS Top 100 tournament a few years ago.[…]
One thing for sure about coastal Louisiana is that there are some well-known areas where the fishing heats up as soon as the weather gets cold.[…]
When regional Orvis rep Dave Hayward told me that for 2008 they were going to introduce the ‘ultimate fly rod,’ I warned him against sniffing too much glue when making epoxy flies.[…]