“Many men go fishing all of their lives without knowing it is not fish they are after,” said Henry David Thoreau, the 19th century American poet, naturalist, hermit and philosopher. Obviously, Thoreau wasn’t from South Louisiana.[…]
Dean Rojas won last year’s BASS Elite Series stop at Toledo Bend with 70.15 pounds of bass caught over four days of fishing.[…]
Predicting who will win a bass tournament is about as much of a sure thing as predicting what five cards you’re going to get in a hand of poker.[…]
Since he isn’t fishing the Bassmaster Elite Series Toledo Bend tournament this year because of a medical exemption, local bass pro Dennis Tietje didn’t mind revealing the five lures that he believes will play big parts in putting together a winning pattern when the pros stop at the Bend this month.[…]
The 2012 Bassmaster Elite Series will stop at Toledo Bend in early June, with the world’s top pros prefishing for the event beginning June 4, while competition will kick off at daybreak on June 7 and wrap up on June 10.[…]
“Ain’t no way!” Eddie snarled in response to Pelayo’s entreaty, which involved a “rig-fishing” trip.[…]
The average horse’s heart weighs 7 pounds.
The historic racehorse Eclipse, a distant sire of triple-crown winner Secretariat, had a 14-pound heart.[…]
Big things are in store for Lake Pontchartrain.
How big?[…]
• The Causeway is 23.83 miles long.
• The twin bridges are supported by 9,500 concrete stanchions.[…]
Capt. John Gremillion quit guiding because he likes to fish too much.[…]
If you want to know when is the best time to go to Delacroix, you forget all about looking at the tide forecasts.[…]
Like any speckled-trout angler, Capt. John Gremillion enjoys catching big fish, but he likes catching limits even more, so he throws a TKO Shrimp double-rig — even under a rattling cork.[…]
I’d talked about taking this trip for months and now, finally, I was on my way.[…]
June is perhaps the best month to catch speckled trout in the surf on flies.[…]
All month — CCA STAR Tournament. Runs through Labor Day (Sept. 3). Fly Fishing East and West Divisions for heaviest speckled trout. Also, a consolation drawing at the end of the tournament for all trout weighed in the Fly Division.[…]
The nation’s top bass anglers head to Toledo Bend this month, and the coastal trout action is as hot as it gets.[…]