NEW ORLEANS – The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, New Orleans District, is hosting an informational workshop on Wednesday, June 11 at Destrehan High School, 1 Wildcat Ln., in Destrehan to collect input on current and potential recreational uses and management of natural resources found in the Bonnet Carré Spillway.[…]
I’ve been on several awesome trout trips in the last few years, but few, if any, have been as good as the one I took with Captain Brent Roy with Venice Charters Unlimited (225-268-8420) recently. The phrase for the day was a grateful sounding, “just another 4- or 5-pound trout.”[…]
There is still a lot of river water in Black Bay, but Captain Gene Dugas with Rather Be Fishing Adventures (985-640-0569) said that it’s not slowing down the fishing much.[…]
The gates are closed and the Mississippi River is falling. The question remains, though, of what effect the opening of the Bonnet Carré Spillway had on the normally spectacular speckled trout fishing at Lake Pontchartrain during the spring. If my recent trip with Captain Greg Schlumbrecht with To Fish Charters (985-960-1709) is an indicator, the answer is “not much.”[…]
NEW ORLEANS – The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, New Orleans District, will close the final 30 bays at the Bonnet Carré Spillway today. The Corps began to close bays on Apr. 30.[…]
While there are no guarantees in New Orleans East right now, Captain CT Williams with Big Fish Charters (504-610-6914) says the start of the squeeze play between the mud coming out of the mouth of the Mississippi to the south and the mud coming out of Pontchartrain to the north is pushing fish to Breton Sound.[…]
The mouth of the Mississippi River has been an absolute mess this year. If the relentless wind wasn’t bad enough, old Mother Nature made it even worse by pounding the upper Mississippi River Valley with more rain than the river could contain.[…]
The 25-foot Grady White fueling up at the dock looked perfectly normal for this setting, and the elegant brunette on the stern with the killer tan, bikini top and orange wrap flapping around her waist and thighs didn’t look out of place either.[…]
Gasoline is well over $3 a gallon and the peak of the fishing season has not even arrived. What if you could still have a great fishing trip and spend a lot less on fuel for both the truck and the boat?[…]
The problem anglers face in May is not whether to go fishing, but where. The action turns on all over the state this month, and virtually any area you pick will be a winner.Even when you narrow your choice down to a particular area, you still face the same dilemma.[…]
VICKSBURG, Miss.– Heavy rain in the Mississippi Valley is prompting the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to open the Bonnet Carré Spillway on Friday, April 11, 2008, for the first time in 11 years.[…]
With millions of gallons of water so muddy it had coon tracks on it barreling down the Mississippi River just to our east, Captain Owen Langridge (225-978-1136) idled his boat to the west out of Yellow Cotton Bay Marina.[…]
NEW ORLEANS – The lucrative new Wal-Mart FLW® Redfish Open will debut the sport’s first pro/co-angler format when action gets under way at the Southern Sportsman’s Expo in the Louisiana Superdome March 27-30.[…]
Click, clack, click, clack, click-whoosh! Before the next clack, the red/white Top Dog was mauled by a 4-pound speckled trout.[…]
t’s often hard for anglers to believe the fishing reports they hear coming from Lake Pontchartrain. The problem is that their eyes rarely see what their ears hear.[…]
Eddie went through this a couple years earlier when he moved back to his home state of Louisiana after two divorces and at least one disbarment that we heard of.[…]