Bass Fishing
Poor conditions can’t slow CLECO bite
Wouldn’t it be something if there were a lake that offered near perfect bass fishing conditions during the winter? It would attract anglers like San Diego attracts residents.[…]
Fishing
Columns
Wheat’ll do when Ritz are gone
News of a disturbance in the Gulf can leave most folks around here tropically depressed, especially after last year’s Hurricane Season From Hell.[…]
Ask Captain Paul
Where is rig in Main Pass 68?
Dear Capt. Paul:
Would you happen to have the GPS coordinates for a rig that once stood in Main Pass 68? I’ve been looking around for it, and can’t seem to locate the coordinates.[…]
Fishing
Boat speed can be tough to figure
A reduction in your boat’s cruising speed while your engine is turning its usual number of revolutions can indicate problems. Crud growing on the hull, a leak allowing water to collect in the hull and propeller damage can all cause a speed reduction and waste today’s high-priced fuel.[…]
Columns
Trout, reds love new Shrimp Cocktails
Give one of Louisiana’s veteran saltwater fishing guides a popping cork and a Shrimp Cocktail made by Bass Assassin, and chances are good he’ll limit out while fishing around Lafitte, Lake Salvador, Bay Round, Barataria Bay and Little Lake.[…]
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Reactive Reds
It didn’t take long for Capt. Cade Thomas and me to get tired of hauling water at the Jump at Venice. Our ice chest, void of any speckled trout, reminded me of a sign I saw leaving a lake one day that read, “Cuz, you should have been here yesterday.”[…]
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Fall Flounder Factories
Flounder are often seen as more of an afterthought than the targets of an angler’s obsession. That was certainly the case the first time I caught a mess of flatfish.[…]
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Ship Shape
With another successful recreational red snapper season under his belt, Capt. Tommy Pellegrin quickly adapts his methods to concentrate on the mixed bag of other species that swarm the platforms and reefs near his home port of Cocodrie.[…]
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Ravenous Reggio Redfish
Did you ever have a craving for a certain thing? You know what I mean; sometimes you just crave something in particular, like Chinese food or Mexican food. Or ice-cream. Or a Snickers bar or an Almond Joy.[…]
Bass Fishing
Battered, Bruised, and Beautiful
While watching the TV announcers trying to fill time during the lightning delay in the LSU-Mississippi State game, I heard one of them say, “Things aren’t quite the same around these parts, but you can tell it’s coming back because you can see these people doing what they do.”[…]
Inshore Fishing
Trout biting at Bay Rambo
It’s never good to say that any thing associated with fishing is easy, but catching speckled trout around Bayou Rambo to the east of Leeville is as close to easy as you’re ever going to get.[…]
Tuna
Guide reports tuna back in deep water
Yellowfin tuna may have been the main attraction south of the Mississippi River the past couple of days, but Capt. Scott Avanzino with Paradise Outfitters (985-845-8006) says there has also been a strong wahoo and cobia bite with even a few dolphin thrown in the mix recently.[…]
Inshore Fishing
Tiger, Red passes kicking off Venice romp
It would be hard to imaging the lower Mississippi River offering fishing as good as it did this time last year, but that seems to be exactly what’s shaping up for the approaching cool-water time.[…]
Bass Fishing
Bass biting around Wax Lake
One year has passed since Hurricane Rita tore through Southwest Louisiana. The Atchafalaya Basin area was hit especially hard, and there haven’t been very many successful fishing trips between then and now. Things are slowly getting better, though, and The Wax Lake area is starting to come around.[…]
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Come fall, Redzilla rules the marsh
As Halloween draws near, beware of monsters that lurk the marsh!Take late October of last year. There I was, enjoying a gorgeous day in my canoe just east of the Leeville bridge.[…]
Bass Fishing
Rooted in the Red
I love the Red River. I’ve tried to impartially write about each of the Louisiana waterways I’ve covered so far this year, but I can’t recuse myself from this one. I’m biased toward the Red River, and I can’t withdraw my emotions.[…]