The booming soft-plastic market’s going soft, too soft, many claim, and something had to be done about it before many more creature baits, bogus worms, faux paux frogs and imitation crawfish got torn up by fish or slid down the hook, thus rendering them unusable.[…]
One of the things that separate professional guides from weekend anglers is the experience of time spent on the water.[…]
This is the time of year when Captain T-Man Cheramie (985-693-6828) expects the water to finally come up around Lockport and stay.[…]
Bass typically spawn later in rivers than they do in lakes because of high, spring water levels that look more like a Yoo-hoo than water.[…]
Fishing has turned on all over Louisiana the past couple of days, and that has made it difficult to single out one particular spot to highlight.[…]
Captain Greg Schlumbrecht of To Fish Charters expects the HWY 11 and the Train Bridges across Lake Pontchartrain to explode with giant speckled trout just any day now.[…]
Dear Capt. Paul:
I just resently bought a 22-foot boat, and I would love to start fishing Grand Isle for mangrove snapper.[…]
The one-two punch of Katrina and Rita claimed upwards of 50,000 boats, many of which have been totaled by the insurance companies[…]
If you’re a Louisiana resident, George W. Bush is the worst president you’ve ever had .Jimmy Carter was bad, but at least he was an equal-opportunity disaster.[…]
The wind whipped across Toledo Bend the day after a front passed, and Joe Joslin wasn’t look forward to running north from his camp to the relative protection of Six Mile Creek.[…]
The first thing that stood out to me was just how clear the water was. I mean, this was Lake Pontchartrain — post Katrina.[…]
Hear that? That’s the sound of millions of bass moving to the beds.[…]
Kirk Stansel was worried when he finally made it back to his lodge after Hurricane Rita tore through Southwest Louisiana in September.[…]
Time travel is a scary proposition.
For one thing, you never know if the portal you slide down is two ways. I mean, really, when you’re vaporized from one era and reconstructed in another, is there any guarantee you’ll be able to get back to where you started?[…]
It was still dark in the pre-dawn hours of a Thursday morning when I shook hands with Capt. Chad Dufrene and we sat down for breakfast at Rose’s Café in Golden Meadow.[…]
Folks living in the northern portion of the state don’t have far to look when seeking good fishing waters.[…]