Usually when a hostess calls for “Jones, party of…” a dozen different people named Jones stand in unison. Not on the bayou. I haven’t met another Jones yet. But I have met a Thibodaux (heck, I live there, too), Boudreaux and a passel of Zeringues. Seriously.[…]
When the trout aren’t cooperating, you might just need on stay on the big motor and cover more water.[…]
A tom turkey carries with him three body parts that most hunters consider trophies in the same realm that a whitetail buck carries an 8-point rack — worth keeping around to remember him by.[…]
With buckets and buckets of rain falling in the region April 2, some saltwater fishermen who regularly fish Calcasieu Lake expected the upper end to freshen up considerably and, as a result, work their way to the southwest corner of the lake to catch speckled trout at Nine Mile Cut and Washout.[…]
Bragging-sized bass are storming the beaches, as they say, as I write this Toledo Bend piece the last day of March.[…]
Wilmer and Betsy Mills live in a rambling, early 20th century Southern farm home that breathes history from every board of which it was built.[…]
A bill has been introduced in the Louisiana Legislature that would prohibit dredging for oysters on Big Lake, which according to Coastal Conservation Association Louisiana has seen both its oyster population and vertical reef structure decline since the mid-2000s when scrapers were first permitted as an allowable harvest method.[…]
Speckled trout are invading inshore waters across the coast, and you can definitely build limits by drifting open-water bays. However, there’s a better way to fill your box with specks — but this tactic will only last a few more weeks.[…]
With Hackney out for this episode, we handed the reigns over to our buddy Kip Plaisance. He did a fine job and the fish co-operated too.[…]
Beverly Rogers Brister of Farmerville has a fish story that’s even bigger than the bass she caught on Lake D’Arbonne Tuesday — and that makes it a mighty good one. […]
Rad Trascher is a man on a mission right now.
The tournament director for the Coastal Conservation Association’s STAR Tournament is busy tagging redfish and speckled trout in advance of this year’s event, which kicks off in exactly one month — May 27. […]
Outdoorsmen might be focused right now on spawning specks, big redfish, lunker bass and sac-a-lait slabs, but when those first cool fronts start teasing us after the dog days of summer, teal will once again take center stage.[…]
Cocodrie and Dularge guide Capt. Tommy Pellegrin isn’t necessarily a bait guru, but he pays close attention to what lure is on the end of his line this time of year.[…]
Folks who think the average boater is great at backing a trailer need only spend 30 minutes observing a busy boat ramp to learn the truth.[…]
The newest class of Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries enforcement agents graduated Wednesday morning in a ceremony at department headquarters in Baton Rouge.[…]
For the first time in almost 14 years, a giant bluefin tuna is poised to crack into the Top 5 of the Louisiana record books. […]