As fickle as the Atchafalaya River stage has been most springs and summers in the 2000s — well, and much of the time before that — it’s a challenge for an avid Morgan City outdoorsman to predict what the best fishing might be in June.[…]
“The drop is what everybody waits for,” the big dude said. “The fish have been swimming around in trees for months, and the falling water pulls them out into the canals and bayous.”[…]
The wind was blowing and it was still a little cool a few weeks ago when my son Garrett and I launched into Lake Verret from the Attakapas Landing. And the water was muddier than I expected.[…]
Catching trout in the big bays and outside waters isn’t for everyone, and not every angler has a nice large bay boat to overcome choppy seas.[…]
Capt. Travis Miller is a huge fan of trout fishing during May, but he still has to cater to his customers who want redfish. […]
Capt. Travis Miller is a big double-rig fan. They certainly catch boat loads of fish all over the coast. Here’s how to tie one.[…]
Rhett Buteau admitted a little guiltily that he is obsessive about fishing.[…]
Rhett Buteau, like many other dedicated sac-a-lait fishermen, has had trouble buying fishing corks made of real cork in recent years.[…]
Rhett Buteau breaks sac-a-lait cover into four types: grass beds, bushes, laydowns, and wellheads, and explains how to fish each of them.[…]
Rhett Buteau has his sac-a-lait fishing tackle down pat for his needs.[…]
The Atchafalaya Basin is huge and its habitats are complex. Besides the main channel of the Atchafalaya River that runs the length of it, the Basin has major and minor bayous, pipeline and oilfield canals, sloughs, coves, lakes and back-swamps. […]
“Amoco.” That word should conjure up the image of a gas station sign beckoning motorists to come to the pump and gas up.[…]
Capt. Travis Miller learned a few years ago that one of his favorite — and perhaps his favorite — platforms was going to be removed from his Dularge waters.[…]
“In a perfect world, it would be 10 feet on the Butte La Rose gauge with a slow fall, year around,” the rakish young man told me with an infectious grin. […]
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.”[…]
If you are looking for a place to stay in Dularge, Louisiana[…]