Stanley Sevin pretty much grew up in the bait business — his family owns Bait House Seafood in Chauvin — so he knows a few tricks about how to maximize the lifespan of shrimp in your livewell.[…]
Topwater action is really exciting, but it can become frustrating when speckled trout are only slapping at the bait or constantly coming unhooked during the fight.[…]
With so many uncontrollable factors when fishing, one thing I can control is my knot choice — so I try to use the most efficient knots possible to put the odds in my favor. […]
With April’s full moon last week, plenty of impatient anglers are finally heading into prime speckled trout fishing time across Louisiana’s coast.[…]
Baton Rouge’s Lance Burgos was enjoying a weekend camping trip to Lake Fausse Point State Park with his 11-year-old daughter Evan on Saturday when a jug line in a nearby canal caught their eye.
“She had been watching that yellow float swimming around, and she said, ‘I want to know what’s on the other end,'” the elder Burgos said. “I told her it was either a catfish or a garfish.”[…]
Greg Hackney discusses how he fishes the Spawn period.[…]
This time of year, even anglers who don’t regularly target sac-a-lait break out the light line and poles. Covington’s Jeff Bruhl did that Monday evening, and murdered the crappie on one of the toughest freshwater fisheries in the state — the Tchefuncte River.[…]
Early last week there was a major wave of bass that moved into Toledo Bend’s shallows to spawn, but the cool front that passed through the area a few days later pushed most of the fish back into deeper water.[…]
The coldest month of the year is here, but you still want to go out and catch some bass. The question is: How?[…]
The fishing trip was going fantastic. My buddy Austin Abadie and I were catching bass after bass on small Academy H20 Xpress square-billed crankbaits during one of my vacation days.[…]
Chris Macaluso talks about the Terrebonne Basin restoration project.[…]
The heaviest tuna I ever landed was a roughly 115-pound yellowfin. But the meanest one was a 90-pounder that almost killed me. I mean the danged thing just refused to give up, and I almost threw the rod, reel and stand-up belt overboard in capitulation.[…]
Anglers in South Louisiana deal with falling tides all the time, but when you head up the East Coast the tides are a bit different — which is what Gonzales’ Gerald Spohrer discovered while practicing for a Bassmaster Open on the James River in Virginia.[…]
The biggest bass I’ve ever caught weighed just more than 8 pounds, and I can clearly remember waiting nervously for buddy Artie Cosby to lip the pig after I wrestled the fish to the boat. Flipping onto the deck never, ever crossed my mind.[…]
Sharks are the bullies of the ocean, prowling around just looking to push other fish around, right? That’s probably the impression most have of the toothy fish.[…]
If you’ve ever experienced the thrill of a “Cajun sleigh ride” – when a feisty redfish tows you around in your kayak before he cools off enough to land – then you can appreciate this video reportedly from a man in Cape Coral, Fla.[…]