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June 17, 2026
/August 2016

August 2016

Contents

Pole Kat — How the Salter Jiggin’ Pole can make you a better angler

August 1, 2016 Jerald Horst

The cork slowly went under.

I knew it was a crappie: It didn’t swim off like a bass, twitch like a bream or disappear with a snap like a catfish.[…]

Contents

Cover: August 2016

August 1, 2016 Louisiana Sportsman

The summer heat is on, and that means specks are patrolling the beaches in search of easy meals.[…]

Inshore Fishing

Surf strategists — Top surf-fishing tips

August 1, 2016 David A. Brown

Aggressive, abundant and readily available to those willing to enter the warm summer surf — speckled trout present the perfect wade-fishing target.[…]

Contents

Bull stampede — Fishing for bull reds in the Mississippi Delta

August 1, 2016 David A. Brown

Gary Abernathy was sure he saw a fish move off the tip of a grassy point on the south side of a little cut between islands.[…]

Columns

It looks like a brain!

August 1, 2016 Jerald Horst

“Ugh; It looks like a brain, man,” my fishing partner said, peering into the swampy water and gingerly poking a gelatinous-looking blob with a boat paddle.[…]

Contents

The short haul — Shell Beach’s summertime fishing hotspots

August 1, 2016 Humberto Fontova

“And all my rowdy friends have settled down!” Artie yelled while making his grand entrance through the back door to Doc’s Shell Beach camp, which was strangely dark and quiet.[…]

Contents

Biloxi Marsh mix-up — How to catch trout and redfish during August

August 1, 2016 Rusty Tardo

This goes down as one of my very best summers — ever.

June came in with intense heat and sweltering humidity, and an abundance of speckled trout. At least it did where I was fishing — in and around Bay Eloi.[…]

Bass Fishing

Heat advisory — How to catch Toledo Bend’s summer bass

August 1, 2016 Chris Berzas

Bass fishing in temperatures exceeding 100 degrees is not for the faint of heart.[…]

Field Notes

Top 3 tips to mop up on mangroves

July 25, 2016 Patrick Bonin

Every summer, Tommy Vidrine tears himself away from catching hammer speckled trout at Grand Isle and heads offshore in pursuit of mangrove snapper.[…]

Field Notes

Mop up on monster mangrove snapper

October 15, 2014 Patrick Bonin

During the dog days of summer, Grand Isle’s Trout Master sometimes turns his attention away from chasing specks just long enough to head offshore in pursuit of different prey.[…]

News Breaker

Mopping up on monster mangroves

September 4, 2014 Patrick Bonin

During the dog days of summer, Grand Isle’s Trout Master sometimes turns his attention away from chasing specks just long enough to head offshore in pursuit of different prey.[…]

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