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Freezer Burn
If you’re deepfreeze is anything like my family’s, it takes you a while to dig through all the leftovers on top just to get to the good stuff underneath.[…]
Southeast LA
Inshore Fishing
Back to the bays at Venice with river rising
Although the calendar shows that the trout and redfish should have invaded the Mississippi River at Venice, that hasn’t exactly been the case according to Captain Owen Langridge with Big O Charters (225-978-1136).[…]
Inshore Fishing
Guide says Lafitte redfish bite “on fire”
One of the great things about Southeast Louisiana is that you don’t have to drive very far to get to some of the best fishing holes in the world.[…]
Inshore Fishing
Shell Beach bite getting better every day
Anybody fishing with the king, Captain Frank Moore (504-887-4960) lately has found that Biloxi Marsh, Stump Lagoon and Muscle Bay are absolutely full of redfish and trout right now.[…]
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Raiding Reggio
The winds were already blowing steady out of the north when I arrived in the little St. Bernard community of Reggio. It’s a small hamlet on the side of Bayou Terre aux Boeufs on the way down to Delacroix Island.[…]
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The Fall of Fall
Luke Landry’s favorite color is green. It is the color of money and of envy, but more importantly to Landry, it is the color the lower Mississippi River gets this time of year.[…]
Events & Announcements
L.D.W.F. assisting Grand Isle in bridge fire clean-up
The Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries, in cooperation with the Grand Isle Port Commission, the Town of Grand Isle and the US Coast Guard, is assisting in the clean-up efforts following the fire that destroyed a major portion of the Caminada Pass Bridge in Grand Isle.[…]
Inshore Fishing
Transition trout biting at Pontchartrain
September can be a tough month to find speckled trout because they can be outside, inside, or anywhere in between.[…]
Inshore Fishing
Redfish ganging up at mouth of East Pearl
When Lake Pontchartrain regular Chas Champagne told me to meet him at the Rigolets Marina at 4:15 in the morning, I wondered if he had lost his mind.[…]
Inshore Fishing
Lake De Cade full of redfish and bass
Although he’s starting to spend more time in the deer woods in preparation for the upcoming hunting season, Captain Ryan Young with Avid Angler Fishing Charters (985-855-5909) out of Bayou DuLarge says he’s been on the water enough lately to know that the redfish and bass are slamming swimbaits in Lake De Cade.[…]
Events & Announcements
Mats installed improving road access to Elmer’s Island
Visitors to Elmer’s Island Wildlife Refuge will have improved beach access thanks to the installation of concrete revetment mats on the property.[…]
Inshore Fishing
MRGO closure affecting tide more than fish
We didn’t get very far after Captain CT Williams with Big Fish Charters (504-BIGFISH) turned his boat to the southeast as he entered the MRGO from Bayou La Loutre.[…]
Inshore Fishing
Delacroix reds biting despite increased pressure
Fishing redfish out of Delacroix with Sweetwater Guide Service owner Captain Jack Payne (504-453-8382) initially looked like a huge mistake last Friday as flashy bay boats wrapped with candy and shoe ads zoomed past Payne’s small flats boat.[…]
Inshore Fishing
Tripletail distracting Pontchartrain trout anglers
It takes a lot to distract Captain Eric Dumas’ (985-705-1244) attention away from the speckled trout at Seabrook this time of year, but that’s exactly what the tripletail over by the Biloxi Marsh have done.[…]
Inshore Fishing
Grand Isle “jammed up” with nice trout
Anybody that keeps up with saltwater fishing in Louisiana knows that Grand Isle has been on fire the last couple of weeks.[…]
Events & Announcements
Elmer’s Island beach area accessible from LA 1 on weekends starting July 3
The Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries (LDWF) and the Louisiana Department of Transportation and Development (LADOTD), announced Tuesday, June 30, 2009 that the public road to Elmer’s Island in Jefferson Parish has been repaired and will be open for the 4th of July holiday weekend, as of Friday, July 3, one half hour before sunrise.[…]