Freshwater Fishing
Tippets
For coastal fly anglers looking for alternatives to reds and trout, July brings a variety of pelagic species to inshore waters.[…]
July 2014
Bass Fishing
Color calamity – What single lure color is the best?
Just as there’s no one bait for every imaginable scenario, there’s no one color that works on every cast. Nevertheless, experienced anglers have their favorites for a reason.[…]
Freshwater Fishing
The Redneck Bait Keeper
There is a low-cost, effective method for keeping red worms, grass shrimp or other live bait cool and comfortable while still making them easy to get to in the heat of summer.[…]
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.[…]
Columns
A little game and fish potpourri
Last month I wrote about browse surveys and that now is the time to be looking at the deer habitat, seeing first-hand what is available for deer to eat and discovering exactly what plants they are actually eating.[…]
Columns
Taming the gorilla
Flyrodders love small waters. I once dug a hole in my backyard that filled with rain, and several of my fly fishing buddies wanted me to stock it.[…]
Ask Captain Paul
Polecat Bend and Baldwin Lodge
Dear Capt. Paul:
Have you ever heard of a fishing place called Baldwin Lodge? It is somewhere near the Polecat Bend, wherever that is located. I believe that it is somewhere in Lake Pontchartrain.[…]
Columns
Interesting blue crab trivia
Blue crabs are one of the most-beautiful and interesting creatures in Louisiana’s coastal marshes. They are pugnacious — actually downright aggressive may be a better characterization — but within those armored bodies lies some of the most delectable of all seafoods.[…]