• People new to the island should fish the beach and the rocks (breakwaters on the Gulf side of the island). Then venture farther from the island if the weather is good. A variety of fish can be caught at the rocks.[…]
• Hire a guide to learn the area the first time you fish it.[…]
Kevin Horton of Avery Island caught his monster while fishing western Vermilion Bay with friend Kenny Benoit on Aug. 17. Horton’s trophy trout measured 28 inches, and pulled the scales to 7.31 pounds.[…]
Ulysse “Bootsie” Toups won the Southeast Division with a 5.22-pound speckled trout he weighed in at Grand Isle’s Bridge Side Marina.[…]
“I’d been fishing that exact same spot faithfully for several weeks, literally every single day,” Weiss said. “I would show up early and anchor my boat in the same spot and throw out a big live shrimp or a croaker. […]
The regulations for recreational shrimping in Louisiana can be found at www.wlf.louisiana.gov or in the 2013 Louisiana Fishing Regulations.[…]
With the price of live bait these days, many sport fishermen have decided to trawl for live bait instead of buying it. By doing this, they save money, don’t have to wait in long lines and get fresh lively bait every time.[…]
Trawling checklist[…]
Another national wildlife refuge that is an absolute must for canoe and kayak anglers is Lacassine. As in years past, the refuge’s pool that is reserved for non-motorized boats has produced monster bass this spring.[…]
Few people utilize a float plan, plain and simple. But they are important to prevent a mishap from becoming dangerous.[…]
For CCA members hoping to place an entry in the STAR tournament Fly Rod Division, June is the best month to register a larger-than-14-inch trout.[…]
A section of Louisiana’s coastal wetlands is about to get a major shot in the arm.[…]
If there’s one underlying assumption that’s been used to justify the $50 billion cost of Louisiana’s Coastal Master Plan, it’s this: We actually have a chance to prevent Southeast Louisiana from drowning in the Gulf because the Mississippi River carries the mud and sand necessary to keep pace with sea-level rise.[…]
Planned since 2004, the study lately has taken on new urgency, as a result of evolving insights into the river’s capacity.[…]
While the study of river hydrodynamics was first proposed in 2004, it wasn’t funded until 2011. So the scientists working on the 2012 edition of the master plan put together preliminary planning models that prepared the way for the more-detailed operating models to be developed when the latest data on the lower river became available. That work was cheered in peer reviews, even though it was based on river data that, in some cases, were decades old, researchers said.[…]
The goal of the research, he said, was to see if the conventional scientific wisdom about how much sediment the river carries in its upstream reaches holds true on its last leg to the Gulf.[…]