While telling me about how the Davis Pond Diversion has affected speckled trout fishing around Lafitte, Capt. Theophile Bourgeois mentioned something that I don’t think he realized provided a perfect contrast of the life before and after the levee break started flowing.[…]
Designed to imitate a range of forage, tubes are among the most versatile and productive baits in a bass angler’s arsenal.[…]
The smoke/glitter sparkle beetle arched through the air toward a handful of scraggly, brush sticks poking out of the water — the few remains of the live black mangroves that once covered a substantial island.[…]
Modern bass boats are high-powered machines specifically designed to provide fishermen with all the advantages necessary to conquer the world of the largemouth bass. High-powered motors allow bass fishermen to quickly cover many miles in search of prime bass habitat.[…]
A system to efficiently deal with multiple trail cameras and memory cards to monitor deer movement on your land.[…]
Once again, the weather prognosticaters had proven that their job is better left to leaf readers and Ouija boards.[…]
April in the South heralds spring and the beginning of boating season. It is that time of year when Louisiana’s 320,000 registered boats are on our waterways, serving as platforms for all sorts of recreational and commercial activity.[…]
The Borrow Canal near the parish line separating St. Charles and Jefferson wouldn’t rank in the top 10 of any conceivable list of desirable fishing destinations in the Bayou State.[…]
The popularity of speckled trout in Louisiana eclipses that of any other saltwater species, perhaps by several fold. We love to catch them, and we love to eat them.[…]
Once upon a time, one of the most tedious things we boaters and fishermen attempted was to figure out exactly where we were on a lake map or chart. Few freshwater fishermen bothered to mount a compass on their boat and just used shoreline sightings and depth soundings to figure out where they were.[…]
The Sebile Magic Swimmer Soft is a jointed, sinking soft plastic bait that can be rigged weedless with no weight or rigged weight forward or toward the back for a varied descent.[…]
Capt. John Aucoin defines the spring transition period in eastern Terrebonne as the months of March and April. Through February, speckled trout will be found bunched mostly in waters north of Catfish Lake.[…]
Some anglers swear the best way to catch a female bass off a bed is snatch the male into the boat and store it in the livewell. Craig Graham doesn’t subscribe to that theory.[…]
Dear Capt. Paul:
My GPS comes on, but when you get on the page with the satellites it (says) GPS OFF. Can you help me?[…]
Angler’s Fish-N-Mate Powercart will fulfill many uses from skeet shooting, pressure washing and lawn and garden maintenance to carrying large loads of equipment to fishing piers, bridges or the beach for surf fishing.[…]
It’s impossible to catch bedding fish if your boat is drifting all over the place. A trolling motor helps, but anglers have to be very careful not to wash the targeted fish.[…]