Freshwater Fishing
Chinquapins/Lake Runners
This bream, officially known as the redear sunfish, is named for the red-margined flap extending rearward from its gill cover.[…]
May 2013
Freshwater Fishing
Bluegills
This feisty species is definitely the backbone of the bream fishery. It gets big — for a bream —at 10 inches, and during its summer-long spawning season forms dense beds of nests.[…]
Inshore Fishing
Proper fishing tackling for speckled trout
Capt. Anthony Randazzo fishes most of his trout artificials on a 7-foot, 2-inch medium Shimano Crucial graphite rod with an extra-fast tip.[…]
Inshore Fishing
Tips for boating speckled trout
Capt. Anthony Randazzo subduing a hooked trout is all a matter of technique.[…]
Freshwater Fishing
A better anchor
Although Lyle Soileau definitely uses a standard anchor, he also has another tool to help hold his pontoon boat in place.[…]
Freshwater Fishing
Never cut an anchor loose again
Bream will stack up where tangles of cover is scattered along the lake bottom, and that means anchoring often results in anchor hang-ups.
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Freshwater Fishing
West Monroe tackle shop specializes in white perch tackle and information
When I moved up to Monroe to attend college after I got out of the Army, I immediately looked up tackle shops in the phone book.[…]
Inshore Fishing
Empire fishing options abound when winds are light or out of the east
During two of the last three fishing seasons, the Empire area has been the launch pad for a delightful little trip to hell.[…]
Freshwater Fishing
Looking for Toledo Bend bream in all the right places
Toledo Bend is vast, so there are myriad areas in which to look for bream beds.[…]
Inshore Fishing
Reader offers advice
Dear Capt. Paul:
I recently wrote to you about the data card on my Garmin 182c not reading, and you posted the article in the April Louisiana Sportsman magazine. I am writing today to give you the results.[…]
Bass Fishing
Stanley Top Toad
A leading artificial lure manufacturer’s newest pride and joy jumped like a real frog to the forefront of bass fishing circles in and around Louisiana very quickly in early 2013.[…]
Columns
A turkey for dad
When you hear “Phfffffftt,” you know a strutting tom is close and it is time to get ready.[…]
Columns
Oxbow blues
Look at a map of eastern Louisiana, from Bastrop to New Roads, and you’ll realize the power of the mighty Mississippi. Over millennia, the great river has carved out dozens of deep waterways, most of which have become isolated from the river’s flow. […]
Ask Captain Paul
Correct coordinates needed:
Dear Capt. Paul:
I have a new camp in Cocodrie, and I’m learning the area. I was hoping to hit some of the shallower rigs for a few lemonfish and perhaps even some snapper.
Do you have the coordinates for the Mardi Gras and EnStar rigs that are supposed to be near the shoreline?[…]
Columns
Hail the new snapper king
The gray snapper — usually called the mangrove snapper — is one of 14 Gulf of Mexico members of Lutjanidae, the snapper family.[…]
Contents
Top Shelf — Where you should fish to catch a state-record speck
In the latter days of May 2012, Capt. Kirk Stansel of Hackberry Rod and Gun was on a run of big speckled trout in Calcasieu Lake.[…]