Field Notes
Expand your night-fishing options
Night-fishing options are greatly expanded for those who have boats and the willingness to deal with the dangers of navigating at night.[…]
July 2014
Columns
The ProChrono Digital chronograph
I’ve written about the “wildcatting” era in the early 1950s when the U.S. economy was booming in the years coming out of World War II and then the Korean War. […]
Fishing
EPIRB plus PLB equals SOS
Standing in ankle-deep water on deck while too far from the shore to see it? Congratulations: You are behind a marine-grade 8 ball.[…]
Columns
Smart boating
In last month’s column we took a look at some of the required training and safety equipment for boats operating on public waterways. A working knowledge of safety rules acquired in the boating education course and good safety equipment are the basics for becoming a safe boat owner/operator. […]
Columns
Start preparing now
As we transition through the humid and hot doldrums of mid-summer, it is time to begin preparing for the upcoming trail camera season.[…]
Columns
Join the club
Kayak fishermen are a different breed. Passionate about the sport, they work hard to let others know how much fun it is. They regularly share fishing tips, rigging advice and, yes, some even share fishing locations.[…]
Bass Fishing
Storm’s Arashi Rattling Square 3 and Square 5
After a day of prefishing in late May for a Bassmaster Open on Tennessee’s Douglas Lake, one of the tour’s up-and-coming bass pros was eager to talk about a crankbait he used on his way to finishing 14th this year in this year’s Bassmaster Classic.[…]
Freshwater Fishing
The ideal bream-fishing rig
Ray Jones loves to catch bream in many ways, but his basic, go-to rig is simple.[…]
General
Cooking American lotus seeds
As soon as Joey Fonseca got home, he poured a huge glass of swamp bay leaf tea and retreated to his shady back porch to extract the gran à voler seeds from their pods.[…]
Crappie/Bream
Top bream baits
Bream fishermen have a wide variety of lures to choose from. Here are Dr. Ray Jones, aka Dr. Bream’s, top picks for a summer bream buffet.[…]
Ducks
Getting a duck boat ready for hunting season
The father-son due of Hank and Andy Johnston of The Boat Doctor Inc. were the perfect people to interview on getting a duck boat ready to hunt.[…]
General
Wildman
Raymond Joseph “Joey” Fonseca Jr. is a complex man. By vocation, the 61-year-old is a commercial fisherman. By avocation he can be called an articulate philosopher of the wilds.[…]
Inshore Fishing
How to find and catch Sabine Lake’s topwater trout
Sabine Lake locations targeted by Adam Jaynes and Robby Trahan are fairly traditional.[…]
General
The grain that flew
The literal interpretation from Cajun French to English for “gran à voler” is “grain that flew,” apparently because the ripe seeds are supposed to shoot out of the pods.[…]
Inshore Fishing
How to access Sabine Lake
For anglers new to the area, Sabine Lake is an brackish estuary of stretching 23 miles long and nine miles that eventually pours into the Gulf of Mexico south of Port Arthur, Texas.[…]
Inshore Fishing
Sabine Lake trout regs
Anglers may fish anywhere on the border lake with either a Louisiana or a Texas license.[…]