Inshore Fishing
Don’t count out Dularge
Prospects for catching speckled trout in March in the Dularge area hinge on water temperatures, according to veteran saltwater fishing guide Ricky Brondum.[…]
Southeast LA
Events & Announcements
2017 Yamaha Louisiana Sportsman Big Buck Contest better than ever
With 2016-17 hunting season in the books, it’s time to make plans to bring your bucks to the Louisiana Sportsman Big Buck Contest to be held on March 16-19.[…]
Columns
Steve Lessard wins Hobie Fishing Worlds 2016
The fishing in south Louisiana is often referred to as world-class. That’s the reason that Hobie Cat Company chose Leeville as the site for the sixth annual Hobie Fishing World Championship held there in mid-December 2016.[…]
Inshore Fishing
Top 5 reasons to fish trout with soft-plastics
Besides catching fish, soft-plastics offer other powerful advantages in the pursuit of speckled trout and redfish.[…]
Inshore Fishing
Top trout tactics for soft-plastic lures
Trout master Dudely Vandenboore recommended experimenting with and without corks. Corks keep the bait in the strike zone longer if the fish are suspended.[…]
Inshore Fishing
Are soft plastics playing out?
Most fishing lures are not immortal. Many come on strong, live a good life and quietly fade into history.[…]
Freshwater Fishing
Use window sash weight to control boat
Controlling a boat with using only a trolling motor can be challenging, particularly with stop-and-go crappie fishing.[…]
Freshwater Fishing
About Lake Boeuf
Lake Boeuf is one of Clyde Folse’s favorite fishing spots.
“It’s beautiful,” Folse said. “It’s close to where I live, (and) it produces a lot of fish and quality fish.”[…]
Freshwater Fishing
How Crappie Psychic Crappie Trailers began
Clyde Folse didn’t grow up to be a fishing tackle manufacturer.
Rather, like thousands of other young Cajun men, the Des Allemands native was happy to land a secure job in the petrochemical or oil and gas production industries.[…]
Freshwater Fishing
The Crappie Psychic’s keys to success are in the details
Clyde Folse is a very particular guy when it comes to tackle, which is probably natural for a tackle maker.[…]
Bass Fishing
Lake Verret’s bass quality
A review of state’s waterbody management plans show that an estimated 1,264,533 Florida-strain bass were released into Lake Verrett, Grassy Lake and Lake Palourde areas between 1993 to 2011.[…]
Inshore Fishing
How two trout masters became fast friends
Those of us old enough to remember the Lone Ranger TV series will recall that Indian side-kick Tonto invariably called the Lone Ranger “Kemo-sabe.”[…]
Inshore Fishing
Let the wind work for you
If you were to read a list of a fishing guide’s most important tools, you’d probably pass away before you found an American Flag on the record.[…]
Inshore Fishing
Low-down Lafitte
Capt. Scott Poche’ (504-915-0392) said February is, without a doubt, the toughest month of the year for Lafitte anglers.[…]
Inshore Fishing
Geohegan Canal trout are good to go
In this day and age, you’d really be off to a rocky start if you went fishing and didn’t have an outboard motor on your boat. Most of the time, your ice chest would be empty, you boat would be sparkling and the fillet knife would be just as shiny as when you threw it in the shopping cart at Target.[…]
Columns
The last crossing
The bottoms of my knee boots weren’t gripping the top of the sunken log very well, and I would occasionally slide as I inched my way across the slough. Fortunately, I had stick poles in each hand to help with balance.[…]