Freshwater Fishing
Top chinquapin baits
Aggressive and gluttonous as any schooling fish, chinquapin are hardly picky. Nevertheless, catering to their tastes and preferences will earn you more love.[…]
Freshwater Fishing
Best tactics for bedding chinquapin
When chinquapin move in shallow to spawn, the ensuing game of tempting and taunting them to bite can become much like bed fishing for largemouth bass.[…]
Freshwater Fishing
Nighttime fishing for chinquapin
Panfish aficionado Glynn “Catch” Cormier reminds anglers not to overlook the species’ after-hours potential.[…]
Freshwater Fishing
Scaled-down Matrix Shad a super crappie-fishing bait
Until the big trout start showing up in Lake Pontchartrain, just about all Ty Hibbs — who will fish for anything that is biting — fishes for is sac-a-lait.[…]
Bass Fishing
Top April bass lures
Walk into any tackle store to grab a few lures and the choices can be overwhelming. Racks are piled with all manner of baits that each manufacturer promises will catch more bass.[…]
Fishing
How to get the most out of braided line
I love braid. It’s tough. It’s got zero stretch. It doesn’t have memory. It’s got a very small diameter. You feel every tap. And when a fish is hooked the fight is just awesome.[…]
General
Sperm whale checks out research ROV off Louisiana coast
Researchers aboard the Nautilus, a research vessel making a tour through the Gulf of Mexico, received a special gift when a sperm whale swam laps around the remotely operated underwater vehicle nearly 2,000 feet below the surfac[…]
Coastal Projects
Volunteers to install ‘floating islands’ this weekend near Grand Isle
In support of Earth Day next week, project volunteers and students from Grand Isle, Larose and Golden Meadow schools will build about 6,000 square feet of new wetland island habitat just north of Highway 1 this weekend.[…]
Columns
Hildebrandt Drum Roller
Want a unique and improved spinnerbait on your side when you go redfish fishing for pleasure or for money?[…]
Coastal Projects
Sediment diversions building land in marshes east of the Mississippi River
BURAS, LA. – When Capt. Ryan Lambert started guiding 35 years ago, the habitat on the west side of the Mississippi River at Buras was much different than it is today.[…]
Big Bass
Three more lunkers landed at Toledo Bend
As the 2014-15 lunker season draws to a close next month, three more anglers recently scored 10-pound-plus bass at Toledo Bend.[…]
Freshwater Fishing
Impromptu bow-fishing trip yields potential Toledo Bend record longnose gar
As evidenced this spring, Toledo Bend’s 185,000 acres are home to an untold number of lunker largemouth bass that roam throughout the reservoir.[…]
Inshore Fishing
Nine cited for alleged oyster harvesting violations in Terrebonne Parish
Agents with the Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries cited nine people on April 8 for alleged oyster violations in Hell Hole Bayou in Terrebonne Parish, according to a press release.[…]
Big Bass
Sulphur angler scores on Toledo Bend 11.14-pounder Saturday
As much as she wanted to, Pat Schexnider just couldn’t escape her date with destiny and ended up catching the bass of a lifetime Saturday on Toledo Bend.[…]
Inshore Fishing
Choosing the best popping cork
There are Ford guys and Chevy fanatics, and there are folks who prefer Coke and others who are diehard Pepsi drinkers. […]
Columns
Impacts of the 2014 acorn crop
Many hunters are still lamenting the poor deer season that just ended. Complaints about lack of deer sightings and poor deer activity have hunters crying about too many doe days.[…]