Louisiana Sportsman

The Lake Pontchartrain Causeway is 24 miles of fish-holding structure. This week, Marsh Man Masson went there to see what he could catch.[…]

This time of year, the Mississippi River slows to a crawl, allowing all sorts of fish to move in and take advantage of rich bait stocks.[…]

Fresh bait, fresh fish, and a little shoreline cooking — that’s the kind of simple river living that keeps Jared Serigné coming back.[…]

This week, Todd Masson and Chris Macaluso smoked the fish on hard-plastics fishing out of one of Masson’s favorite ports.[…]

All it takes is one good autumn blow to force white shrimp out of backwater marshes, and speckled trout chomp at their tails the whole way.[…]

This week, Marsh Man Masson timed a fishing trip to coincide with the passage of a cool front that brought excellent marsh fishing action.[…]

Catching a flathead catfish in the marshes of Louisiana is a rare event because these fish typically prefer deep freshwater systems.[…]

There’s a certain speckled trout pattern that’s always money this time of year, and this week, Marsh Man Masson took advantage of it.[…]

In this video, Jared Serigné caught redfish in a Louisiana bayou and cooked them right there on the water.[…]

Fishing this time of year is just as easy as it gets, so to take advantage of the fast action, Marsh Man Masson took his favorite co-anglers.[…]

Every year at this time, high water events push everything into the marsh, making for the absolute best fishing of the year.[…]

White shrimp that have spent the warm-weather months growing from larval stage to meaty monsters migrate out of the marsh and into big bays.[…]

Cast netting shrimp in Lake Pontchartrain is as much a tradition as it is a practical way for locals to gather fresh seafood.[…]

You know fishing is good when you go to an area you’ve never fished before, and have zero trouble finding gobs of keeper redfish![…]

This week, Marsh Man Masson, his son Joel, and grandson Liam fed the fish some soft- and hard-plastic baits to absolutely load the boat![…]

Chef Jean-Paul Bourgeois is cooking up an amazing burrata pasta with a Cajun twist. The secret ingredient to this dish is Royal Red Shrimp.[…]