Louisiana Sportsman

Video: Grouper blows up on shark hooked near boat

August 21, 2014 Patrick Bonin

It’s not often we picture sharks as prey rather than predators.[…]

Video: Bird’s-eye view of Ride the Bull V

August 21, 2014 Andy Crawford

You’ve seen the photos of Caminada Pass packed with more than 700 kayaks during last weekend’s Ride the Bull V, but you can now get a different perspective in a video shot using a drone. And it’s amazing.[…]

Video: An awesome compilation of topwater bass blowups

August 7, 2014 Patrick Bonin

There’s nothing like early-morning or late-afternoon blowups when a big bass smashes a topwater lure.[…]

Video: Freediver provides free meal

August 1, 2014 Patrick Bonin

When you’re holding your breath and holding on to a bloody fish you just shot with your spear gun several feet down, I guess discretion is the better part of valor.[…]

Fog Cutter tags and releases three blue marlin, including a 700-pounder to win division at Faux Pas Lodge Rodeo

July 31, 2014 Patrick Bonin

Capt. Chris Hall enjoyed an epic two days of bill fishing near Shell’s Ursa platform last Thursday and Friday, tagging and releasing three blue marlin weighing about 300, 500 and 700 pounds each.[…]

Lafayette trio uses unique fishing videos to promote love of kayaking

July 25, 2014 Patrick Bonin

The old saying says a bad day of fishing is better than a good day at work, but what would result if you could somehow combine a day on the water with a day in the office?[…]

Stingray gives birth after being unhooked near Sabine Lake

July 24, 2014 Patrick Bonin

While jigs, hooks, weights, lures and extra line are pretty common in most tackle boxes, anglers don’t routinely tote around clean sheets, hot water or other supplies necessary to assist with a live birth.[…]

Apex Predator talks freshwater fishing finger hazards

July 3, 2014 Josh Chauvin

Finger injuries are so common with fishing that one of those ten digits seemingly gets hurt on just about every trip.[…]

Winds, muddy water make Delacroix trout hard to find

April 30, 2012 Sam Ebeyer

The sun and the tide were rising as wind sang through the fishing lines of the unused poles on the boat. It looked to be a promising blue sky Saturday (April 28), as birds fed on balls of shrimp where the water cleared in the growing salinity of Lake Robin.[…]

Moonlight mudbuggin’

April 25, 2012 Josh Chauvin

Many people love to go set-netting for crawfish, but few go during the prime feeding hours, when net frames bend from mudbugs spilling over all four sides as you rush toward the bank.[…]

Hopedale hotspots full of hard-plastic-munching specks

April 25, 2012 Todd Masson

The action out of Hopedale could hardly be any better than it is right now.[…]

Ponds around Lafitte’s Bayou Dupont loaded with fish

March 20, 2012 Todd Masson

Capt. Theophile Bourgeois led a boatload of anglers to an ice chest filled to the brim with speckled trout, redfish and bass Monday, and said the hot action out of Lafitte is just beginning.[…]

Delacroix trout smackdown continues

December 7, 2011 Andy Crawford

It was drizzling when I stepped out of my truck at Sweetwater Marina early Monday (Dec. 5), the first signs of a front that was barreling through the state. I just shook my head, wriggled into my rain suit and headed to meet the two guys I’d be fishing with that morning.

I had told Scott Walker that I didn’t want to waste a day out of the office because I was slammed, and he had promised me it wouldn’t take long to fill our limits of speckled trout.

His confidence was more than braggadocio: I was back at the dock barely more than two hours later, loading up an ice chest full of speckled trout and heading back to the office.[…]

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