Offshore Fishing
Action and appetizers to catch more amberjack
An interested amberjack needs no coaxing. If they see it, they’ll eat it.[…]
August 2014
Freshwater Fishing
Tippets
Ask any veteran fly angler and they’ll tell you that August is perhaps the toughest month of the year for fly fishing in Louisiana — with three very notable exceptions.[…]
Offshore Fishing
Amberjack’s family tree
Dark-brown backs, white bellies, a faint golden stripe running nose to tail and a distinctive dark line that reaches from the eye to the anterior (front) dorsal fin are some of the defining marks of a greater amberjack (Seriola dumerili).[…]
Offshore Fishing
Best amberjack fishing gear
Capt. Hunter Caballero’s amberjack gear is no joke: stout, 7 ½-foot rods with Penn 30-wide reels carrying 200-pound braided line.[…]
Freshwater Fishing
Swamp studz?
The lean and tanned 24-year-old had just graduated college with a degree in engineering technology, but you would have to talk to him a long time before that turned up in the conversation.[…]
Freshwater Fishing
Lake Maurepas is a big, little-known lake
Lake Maurepas is a big lake — actually the second-largest lake fully in Louisiana after its big brother Lake Pontchartrain, which lies immediately to the east of Maurepas.[…]
Bass Fishing
Fishing deep-diving crankbaits for redfish
In some parts of the country, redfish are called “channel bass.” Reds and largemouth bass hail from different fish families, of course, but these two species share more than a common nomenclature — they share an interest in crankbaits.[…]
Freshwater Fishing
Gearing up to spearfish catfish
For all the “cool factor” in what Jacob Griffin does, his sport is decidedly low-tech.[…]
Columns
The Rage Blade
An Edisto Island, S.C., artificial lure designer knows first-hand just how good the ChatterBait was when it was born and how good it is now, as it has won more money this year than ever before for pro bass anglers on the FLW and Bassmaster Elite series circuits across the United States.[…]
Columns
More about trophy bucks and lunker bass
Many years ago (OK, it was during the Dark Ages for you young people), I was helping Louisiana Sportsman contributor Chris Berzas with an article about deer habitat. I was demonstrating the newly developed deer browse transect and how it measures browse availability and utilization.[…]
Columns
Micro fly fishing
If Stephen Robert, Rob Bergeron and myself were ever locked in a nuclear laboratory, within 24 hours the world would end.[…]
Ask Captain Paul
The Pickets are to be!
It looks like the actual well heads and Christmas tree and platforms in the area known as the Pickets will be removed. […]
Columns
Watch out, sucker!
Every fish makes its own living in its own way. Some are hard-swimming, driving predators. Others are kind of laid back and take advantage of their fellow fish in the sea.[…]
Fishing
Phase 3 AirPro MAX
The new Phase 3 AirPro MAX high/low seating system has a full forward/aft trim range and can achieve three positions — high, low and recline — without any clipping or loosening of straps. […]
Contents
Cover: August 2014
Some have complained of tough fishing this summer, but there are some whopper trout around Grand Isle — if you know where to fish. And it’s also time to start thinking about hunting season.[…]
Fishing
Shimano Curado I series reels
The new Curado I series reels are available in multiple gear ratios so anglers can have the right reel for the bait they are using.[…]