Marsh Man Masson creates fishing videos throughout South Louisiana.
My son, Joel, and I set out on a recent fishing trip to compare and contrast the bass-catching capabilities of Zoom Flukes and floating worms. With the test well underway, however, we became distracted by a smoking-hot crappie bite we just couldn’t ignore.[…]
Some anglers HATE competitive fishing, but I’m not one of them, especially when the time on the water ends in a festive party with lots to drink and way too much delicious seafood.[…]
How anyone could leave South Louisiana is unfathomable, but in July, Madisonville’s Amanda Springer will do just that. True love is calling her far north to the Buckeye State, where she’ll shiver and shake for six months of the year.[…]
The redfish action across Louisiana’s marsh is so good right now, Capt. Charlie Thomason and I thought we’d be cute.[…]
Fishing is always on my mind, but when summer heat wraps South Louisiana like a hot, moist, miserable blanket, I can’t help but pull out a couple dozen nets, bait them up and drop them down to ravenous blue crabs.[…]
I would rather catch speckled trout than eat a steak, fly in a helicopter or kiss my grandbaby, but this time of year, the specks move far out into the big water, where it can sometimes take live bait and other voodoo to catch them.[…]
Try to target any species you want right now in the marshes east of the Mississippi River, and you’ll probably catch those fish. What you’re also sure to land, however, are more redfish than you’ve ever seen in your life.[…]
My son Joel and I had a week off of our bass-fishing club, but we still had the itch for competition, so we set off on the Tchefuncte River battling each other, as well as the clock. […]
When you’re fishing for your lunch, you don’t exactly need to fill the cargo hold of a tuna boat to survive. So what do you do when the marshes spill their bounty all over your boat?[…]
For most of humanity’s existence, fishing wasn’t a sport; it was a means of feeding your family. To see if we would have gotten fat or died of starvation, my son, Joel, and I set out in the marshes around Delacroix, hoping to put a few fish in the box for that evening’s meal.[…]
Fishing is all fun and games when you’ve got a couple of po-boys waiting to be devoured in the Coleman. The sport takes on an entirely different feel when you’re literally trying to catch your next meal.[…]
After an incredibly successful fishing trip for speckled trout near Grand Isle, I connected with Capt. Daryl Carpenter, who has been pulling a 12- or 16-foot trawl every day, directly behind his camp on Louisiana’s only inhabited barrier island.[…]
Hot speckled trout fishing along Louisiana’s barrier islands might be two weeks behind schedule, but it kicked off big-time this week with bruiser fish flying over the gunwales. I had a front-row seat to the action Monday during a trip out of Grand Isle with Capt. Frank Dreher and my good buddy, Chris Macaluso.[…]
Two decades ago, Jason Baker of Poplarville, Miss., contracted the virus that’s inflicted so many South Louisiana anglers. These otherwise normal fishermen abandon all sense of decorum and fishing tradition to climb towering platforms and scan shallow flats through polarized sunglasses, searching for line-stripping redfish.[…]
Spring has definitely sprung in South Louisiana, and that means everything is active, including speckled trout and alligators. I set out on a fishing trip this week with my son, Joel, to celebrate his last day of high school. We caught plenty of the former, but a representative of the latter could easily have eaten our entire haul in one gulp.[…]
As bass baits evolve and get better at attracting bites from green fish, they also get more irresistible to redfish. On a trip this week, I found that was definitely true with shaky heads.[…]