The briny deep just off the fertile Louisiana coastline is full of big fish, so much so that its anglers, for many years, spurned the use of live bait to catch prized species such as yellowfin tuna, amberjack, cobia and wahoo.[…]
The lure plopped lightly into the water next to some flooded brush, slowly falling toward the bottom.[…]
The guy who coined the phrase, “The only two certainties in life are death and taxes,” never met Raymond Griffin.[…]
There is a hidden bass-fishing treasure in the Atchafalaya Basin that few know about and even fewer dare to venture.[…]
For most people, bridges are a means.For Barry Weinstein, they are an end.[…]
On one of those impossibly beautiful speckled trout fishing days in South Louisiana, when the wind was low, the sun gentle, the friends good and when all was right with nature and the boat, I felt, around mid-morning, that familiar tug on my line, and knew we were about to improve on perfection.[…]
There’s good news and not-so-good news. The good news is that wetland restoration projects are going to construction at an extremely rapid rate.[…]
For anglers, May is the month of paradoxes.[…]
An obscure paragraph of Murphy’s Law says that no matter how many deep-cycle batteries you connect to a trolling motor or how much storage capacity each one has, Mother Nature can hit them with enough wind or current to send you back to the dock early.[…]
Taking the Gulf Coast by storm is what a soft-plastic lure from Bimini Bay Outfitters has done since it hit stores in February.[…]
On Monday, April 26, a new sound will be added to the quiet symphony of the marsh inside Lacassine Pool at Lacassine National Wildlife Refuge.[…]
Pelayo let out a low whistle and pointed ahead.“Ya think…..?”
“WOW!” I gasped. “Antonio outdid himself this time!”[…]
Not so long ago and not so far away, puddling, the sport of fly fishing from a paddlecraft, was dominated by canoes, as it had been for centuries. Then came the rise of “kayak fishing,” deemed as the hottest new segment of the outdoors market.[…]
When the sun set over the Gulf of Mexico, Chris Hebert stopped fishing and just watched the day fade to night. No words were spoken because none could do this sight any justice.[…]
If you fish the Golden Meadow area, you’re probably very familiar with a water body named Gasoline Bay, or Grand Bay on some maps. It’s southeast of Catfish Lake, and rivals Golden Meadow’s most-popular water body in size.[…]
The Ouachita River backwater was littered with a maze of live cypress and detritus from trees long since fallen.[…]