Hotspots come and go in fisheries management. Several things drive management controversy. One is that fishermen are very passionate about their pursuit, and like with other things that arouse passions, a lot of folks adopt the position of being an expert on what they love so much.[…]
I finished in 20th place on the Red River in the 2009 Bassmaster Classic. I completely misread what the bass were doing. Since I assumed the male bass were preparing the nests, and the females hadn’t come in to spawn yet, my game plan was to fish the deeper water where I thought the bigger female bass were holding and not fish the shallow water.[…]
If the pun police and the cliché cops can look aside for a moment, we need to point out that a popping cork is the fishing world’s ultimate example of bait-and-switch.[…]
It may look like you’ve snagged a piece of debris, or maybe you forgot to reset your bait after the last strike, but the truth about wacky rigs is undeniable — these seemingly random arrangements catch fish when many other lures fail to impress picky bass.[…]
It’s a shame when a grown man starts shaking like this,” said 40-year-old Sam Barbera as he idled his fishing partner’s boat out of the Mandeville Boat Launch.[…]
Maybe it was dense fog. Or maybe it was the moisture of the fog’s water droplets that dampened my jacket, where the breeze generated by the boat’s movement gave me a chill.[…]
Every now and then, I’ll walk through the room while my wife is watching HTGV and see some property virgins making a $500,000 offer for a three-bedroom house.[…]
They are the unsung heroes, those by whom much responsibility is borne but to whom little credit is ever given.[…]
Hurricanes, with the associated torrential rains and storm surges, didn’t seem to affect the trout fishery last year. And, indeed, the fishing seemed easier in many instances.[…]
How difficult would you find it to talk about fishing without saying the word luck?[…]
March has the reputation of being “kite-flying weather.” It might not be the best month for fishing, but it’s perfect if you want to get that kite airborne. You won’t even have to run to get some air under the kite.[…]
Biologists are dorks.[…]
It didn’t take Capt. John Pellegrin with Top Water Charters (985-852-9560) very long to sum up his fishing fortunes for this past week.[…]
This week the Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries Office of Fisheries stocked a total of 252 adult Florida largemouth bass into the New Orleans City Park lagoon system.[…]
A few spotty reports are starting to surface from Lake Pontchartrain as the trout begin to spread out on the bridges to the east, and Captain Eric Dumas (985-705-1244) reported that he and his customers had great trips on Tuesday and Wednesday.[…]
If Captain Gene Dugas’ (985-640-0569) most recent trip out of Hopedale was any indicator, it looks like the speckled trout to the east of New Orleans are starting to get more and more active every day.[…]