Fishing
Get value from your deep-cycle battery
I confess; I hate messing with batteries. Cleaning and watering them is messy work that can put holes in your clothes, but swapping them out is worse — it can actually hurt you.[…]
Bass Fishing
Lake Providence this month’s best bet
Lake Providence, an old Mississippi River oxbow lake in extreme northeastern Louisiana, has plenty of good bass in it. In October, the shad really become active, and start moving up on the banks. The bass will chase and eat shad to fatten-up for winter.[…]
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Better Late than Early
When pride comes, then comes disgrace, but with humility comes wisdom. — Proverbs 11:2[…]
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Launch Sequence
Generally, when anglers think of fishing the Lafitte area this month, they automatically think redfish. And for good reason. Lafitte is well known for its production of the hard-fighting bronze brutes throughout the fall and winter months, and October is considered the normal kick-off of the season.[…]
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October Smorgasbord
Quickly now, when you think “October,” what’s the first thing that comes to your mind? Football? Halloween? The first frost? Falling leaves? The pungent aroma of smoke curling from chimneys?[…]
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Rattle and pop for fall speckled trout
Flyrodders have enjoyed an unusually good summer for speckled trout, mostly along the beaches and in open waters like Breton Sound, Big Lake and Lake Barre.[…]
Currents
Conversion to ethanol not green for ducks
What’s good for the goose is always good for the gander, but what’s good for the deer may not always be good for the duck. As reported in our June issue, Louisiana farmers are converting acreage once reserved for only cotton and sugar cane into corn fields, and a boom in the state’s deer population may very well result.[…]
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Calcasieu in the Fall
The pink rod made a question mark as the MirrOlure She Dog vanished in an explosion on the surface. When the line knifed through the water, my guide, Kirk Stansel, one of the owners of Hackberry Rod and Gun, and I both wondered aloud, “Speckled trout or redfish?”[…]
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Deer Dogs with Wings
“Damn buzzard!” the hunter muttered under his breath as he signed his name across the bottom of the check.It was no consolation that he wasn’t the first deer club rule violator brought to justice by an ugly black bird who makes its living from death.[…]
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The Burst Factor
While participating in numerous fishing tournaments at Venice Marina the past couple of years, one name has consistently shown up on the rig-division leader board — BurstFactor.[…]
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Marsh-Malo
The party at Doc’s French Quarter bungalow was an impromptu affair. So an unscheduled visit by Neidermeir (Wesley) and Yoko (Priscilla) caught us off guard.[…]
Ask Captain Paul
Toledo Bend has new fish-holding reefs
Capt. Paul:
I have been trying to find GPS coordinates for artifical reefs that have been put in Toledo Bend. I believe there are 17 of them.[…]
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Four to Know
It was so early in the morning, I couldn’t even see the fluorescent-orange cork that my fishing partner, Eric Dumas, had threaded onto my braided line.[…]
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Take Two
While attending a JAKES Day put on by the National Wild Turkey Federation in Monroe a few years ago, I was asked if I wanted to sign up my son for the JAKES program.[…]
Bass Fishing
Post-Rita bass swarming in Mermentau
Among the many devastating effects of Hurricane Rita just two years ago was the damage it did to the Mermentau River bass population. Bass have been almost non-existent up until recently, and now that they’re showing up again, they are making up for lost time.[…]
Inshore Fishing
Strong tide pushing trout through Pontchartrain’s passes
Capt. Greg Schlumbrecht with To Fish Charters recently suggested that a mild tropical storm in the Gulf of Mexico would turn on the trout bite at Lake Pontchartrain.[…]