Bass Fishing
Cajun Lures: A lure innovator
Twenty-four years old seems to be awfully young to own a lure company. But that doesn’t faze Zac Dubois, the mind behind Cajun Lures LLC, a Kaplan-based soft plastic lure maker.[…]
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Offshore Fishing
Red snapper tackle & bait tips
If you don’t want any of the “run-of-the-mill” 10-pounders swimming about, here’s how you target the really big boss snapper on a rig?[…]
Fishing Tournaments
Tippets
August is the last full month of “SweatFest 2017,” the festival no one likes to celebrate! While action for reds and specks on fly can be slow, it’s the best month of the year for pelagic species. […]
Bass Fishing
Geared for raising Cane
Logan Mount’s fishing gear is more organized than some sporting goods stores. When he raises the lid on the compartments of his Phoenix 721 ProXP bass boat, it’s amazingly tidy.[…]
Fishing
Tippets
July is one of those transition months in saltwater. For fly anglers looking to enter a speckled trout in the CCA STAR Tournament Fly Division, history suggests that the first two weeks of the month offer the last, best hope for catching large trout on the fly.[…]
Inshore Fishing
How John Davis hunts for treasure
The story of Davis’ hunt for sunken treasure started when he was 17. An acquaintance gave him an old fishing map to help him find speckled trout. As he used the maps, he noticed that the islands holding some of the best fishing spots were eroding away.[…]
Freshwater Fishing
Tip of the day
Tommy Tregle’s self-designed, self-built boat is wonder of efficiency. Custom-built of welded aluminum, it is 18 feet long with a 12-inch V in the bottom. It looks like a hybrid between a mud boat and a bass boat with a center console.[…]
Freshwater Fishing
A swamp life
Born and raised in the town of Des Allemands, Tommy Tregle (pronounced Cajun style as “Treg”) has spent almost his entire life making his living from the water.[…]
Sidebars
Fighting formula
Like a coach chalk-talking in the locker room, Reid McKinstry used his Venice yellowfin experience to outline a simple, yet profoundly effective method for defeating these brutal fish.[…]
Inshore Fishing
Purpose-built sticks
Capt. Marty LaCoste has fished in and around Dularge for nearly 30 years and has a game plan for every weather condition. He’s also got specific rods laid out for different baits to make his clients as effective as possible on the water.[…]
Inshore Fishing
Reel ratios explained
OK, so you’ve selected a proper rod or two, now it’s time to get a reel. Here again is a primer on reel rations and the techniques for which they’re desired. I got in touch with Trey Epich, one of Shimano’s reel gurus, and discovered the following.[…]
Offshore Fishing
Keep your eye on the sky
Along with baits, terminal tackle, and landing net, add “weather watching” to your summer rigs check list. Amid the rod-bending revelry of summer rig fishing, take precautions to keep everyone safe and comfortable.[…]
Bass Fishing
College anglers raising the bar
It’s always fun to be in on the start of something big, and Logan Mount is glad he was part of raising the bar in college fishing.[…]
Inshore Fishing
Why Shell Beach?
Lower St. Bernard Parish, whether one launches out of Shell Beach, Hopedale, Yscloskey, or Delacroix, has long been a sportfishing playground for New Orleanians. Fishermen can launch at any of the four sites to access the rocks at the end of the Mississippi River Gulf Outlet.[…]
Inshore Fishing
A little fishing geography
The Mississippi River Gulf Outlet, a dredged channel completed in 1965, never lived up to its predicted potential to largely replace the river proper as a deepwater approach to the Port of New Orleans.[…]
Freshwater Fishing
Tip of the day
Mike and Freddie McMullen were making impressively long casts most of the day with minimum weight on the ends of their lines. I finally caught on to what they were doing.[…]