Crappie/Bream
Top bream baits
Bream fishermen have a wide variety of lures to choose from. Here are Dr. Ray Jones, aka Dr. Bream’s, top picks for a summer bream buffet.[…]
Inshore Fishing
How to find and catch Sabine Lake’s topwater trout
Sabine Lake locations targeted by Adam Jaynes and Robby Trahan are fairly traditional.[…]
Inshore Fishing
How to access Sabine Lake
For anglers new to the area, Sabine Lake is an brackish estuary of stretching 23 miles long and nine miles that eventually pours into the Gulf of Mexico south of Port Arthur, Texas.[…]
Inshore Fishing
Sabine Lake trout regs
Anglers may fish anywhere on the border lake with either a Louisiana or a Texas license.[…]
Bass Fishing
Freshwater diversions not without controversy
Kevin Schilling said flatly that having the freshwater diversion is “the key” the Caernarvon bass fishery.[…]
Bass Fishing
Tackle information
Schilling’s main fishing reels are old-fashioned Abu Garcia 5500 Ambassadeur bait casters. They are used whenever he fishes with worms, frogs or flukes.[…]
Bass Fishing
Kevin Schilling in the news
Kevin Schilling is only 33, but has popped up twice before in New Orleans area fishing news.[…]
Freshwater Fishing
Tippets
For coastal fly anglers looking for alternatives to reds and trout, July brings a variety of pelagic species to inshore waters.[…]
Coastal Projects
Don’t rush to judgement: Causes of erosion
To raise awareness for one of Louisiana’s first politically spurred campaigns against coastal land loss, former Gov. Mike Foster took a publicity team into open water off of St. Mary Parish, cast a line and showed the crew his GPS, which showed them on solid ground.[…]
Coastal Projects
Ways the coast sustains damage
Ways the coast sustains damage[…]
News Breaker
Mississippi man dies from vibrio infection
An Ocean Springs, Miss. man who spent a lot of his life in the Gulf of Mexico was killed by bacteria that attacked his body after spending a day in those very same waters.[…]
Inshore Fishing
Speckled trout fishing sporadic out of Delacroix
Specks are being caught now with live shrimp out of Delacroix, but Capt. Randall Shaw said the bite just hasn’t been as consistent moving into mid-summer as it’s been in years past.[…]
News Breaker
Potential new No. 5 Warsaw grouper caught at Fourchon Oilman’s Tournament
Simon Guidry was underweight, overmatched and outmanned when he picked a fight with a 305-pound Warsaw grouper Friday afternoon, but the Cutoff angler still managed to come out on top.[…]
Inshore Fishing
Seven tips for beach-fishing success
Grand Isle guide Capt. John Chauvin of Capt. John’s Fin-tastic Charters gives his top tips for surf-fishing success.[…]
Columns
Trout Masters Too excerpt: catching big specks on Lake Pontchartrain
In this excerpt from Trout Masters Too: How the pros do it, Capt. Eric Dumas with Living a Dream Guide Service talks about his obsession for speckled trout, and what he uses to catch them.[…]
Fishing Tournaments
Cutoff angler wins CCA-Louisiana STAR tournament’s Chevy pickup truck
Jake Duet went to bed Sunday night dreaming of a brand new 2014 Chevy Silverado pickup, and thankfully for him, things didn’t turn into a nightmare Monday morning.[…]