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Delacroix Delight
Another in a series of cold fronts had blasted through several days before, and the frigid north winds left the marsh almost dry and the temperatures way too cold for comfort.[…]
Fishing
Ask Captain Paul
Where are Vermilion Bay’s hotspots?
Dear Capt. Paul:
I am trying to learn the Vermilion Bay area. I keep reading about The Trash Pile and Dry Reef.Is it possible to get the GPS coordinates to these areas?[…]
Inshore Fishing
Golden Meadow action should rebound this week
Capt. John Aucoin with Hawkeye Charters (985-632-6988) had been smoking the trout and redfish around Golden Meadow before the deluge started on Thursday. All that freshwater turned off the bite a bit, but Aucoin said that the fish should turn back on in a few days after things settle down. “[…]
Inshore Fishing
Big trout biting in Turner’s Bay
Some trophy trout have started to show up at Calcasieu Lake. Capt. Jeff Poe of Big Lake Guide Service (337-598-3268) caught trout up to 8 pounds a couple of days ago, and he said a friend of his caught a 9 1/2-pound lunker that was 29 1/2 inches long last week.[…]
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Bank-Bound Stringers
James Waldon loves to fish, but, alas, he doesn’t own a boat. Before you begin feeling sorry for Waldon, a 67-year-old retiree from Louisiana Tech who lives in Ruston, his dilemma is not the same as if he loved to hunt but didn’t own a firearm.[…]
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Jury still out on oil-bath hub system
In the September issue of Louisiana Sportsman, I wrote about trailer bearing failures and how to avoid them. A recent e-mail I received asked for my opinion on a different type of trailer bearing lubrication system that was not mentioned in that article.[…]
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Mellow Yellow
Frigid cold fronts and blustery north winds signal that it’s time to head to one of the most famous Louisiana wintertime trout hotspots — Yellow Cotton Bay in Buras.[…]
Fishing
Even you can do swap-and-test technique
There are three places to look when a fish finder or GPS unit stops working properly. The problem can be in the display unit, in the transducer (for a fish finder) or GPS antenna module (for a GPS unit), or it can be in the power wiring for either type of unit.[…]
Freshwater Fishing
Cold-water crappie bite red hot at Bistineau
It’s the time of year that crappie anglers dream about. Cold water has pushed the fish into deep holes all across Louisiana, where they can be sacked up by the hundreds, but there probably isn’t a hotter crappie bite going right now than the one at Lake Bistineau in the northwest corner of the state.[…]
Bass Fishing
King of the Lake
A cold front had pushed through the night before, and the sun threw light over cypress trees and turned the skies from black to burnt orange to sapphire blue. Donaldsonville angler Richard Sherman already was on the water, working a stretch of bank in search for his first bite.[…]
Ask Captain Paul
Where are Venice’s spillways?
Dear Capt. Paul:
Can you point me to the spillways south of Venice? I have heard of the First and Second spillways. How far south of Venice are they? Which pass are they in?[…]
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Hot and Cold
The cold air cut through me like a Ginsu as I steered my flats boat out of Delacroix’s Bayou Gentilly and into Little Lake.Thick, gray clouds capped the atmosphere, diffusing the low-hanging sun and blanketing in the chill.[…]
Bass Fishing
Rodemacher’s Resurrection
I kept my eye on Porter Trimble’s water temperature gauge as he maneuvered his big Nitro 929 bass boat across the surface of CLECO Lake. The air temperature was in the lower 60s, and there had been enough cold nights to drop the water temperature into the 50s.[…]
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Inverse Relationship
I remember a funny song Jerry Reed used to sing titled “When you’re hot, you’re hot…”[…]
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Limits in Lafourche
The speed limit through Galliano is 30 m.p.h., so it’s easy to recognize sites of obvious local significance. But even in a 55-m.p.h. zone, I would have spotted and stopped for the “Chene au Cowan.”[…]
Inshore Fishing
Trout bite around MRGO ‘goofy good’
If the fishing on either side of the MRGO has ever been better than it is right now, Capt. Barry Brechtel with Big Fish Charters (504-610-6914) doesn’t remember it.[…]