Inshore Fishing
Chum can reignite the redfish bite
Fishing the wall at Bayou Rigoletts means you might have to sit there a few minutes while waiting on a pod of redfish to move through.[…]
Southeast LA
Inshore Fishing
Best bet for Lafitte’s fall trout
There’s no doubt that the Bayou Rigoletts wall offers some of the best redfishing in all of South Louisiana during November, but there is a spot not too far to its south that offers some of the best speckled trout fishing, as well.[…]
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Road warriors – Even summertime trophy-trout anglers can’t resist this relaxing hotspot.
I had to watch out for the traffic.
Cars and trucks thundered up and down Louisiana Highway 1, the only route into Grand Isle, not only what is arguably the state’s only fishing resort but a thriving base for the oil and gas industry.[…]
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Wet is best — How to deer hunt the Florida Parish swamps
“‘A face only a mother could love,’ goes the saying, right?” snorted Doc’s cousin Brian as he returned from yet another run to the sheepshead ceviche platter with another heaping plate. […]
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Delacroix’s Fall Festival — Trout, redish action picks up this month
Imagine my surprise to find long-time Golden Meadow charter Capt. Chad Dufrene fishing out of Delacroix Island — not just occasionally, but full time.[…]
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Trestle tramps — How one couple fishes the Trestles for trout
“She’s ate up with fishing!” the man said. “She starts texting me about noon to go fishing. She’s the honey badger of fishing: She just takes what she wants!”[…]
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Hopping the wall — This month’s best bet for Lafitte redfish
Opinions about walls are defined by the different sides.
On one side, a wall can be a hedge of protection that keeps us safe by keeping out the proverbial bad guys.[…]
News Breaker
Pending United States record tarpon caught out of Grand Isle
The Louisiana state-record tarpon has stood at 230 pounds since 1993 — until yesterday when a 246.6-pound silver king was landed out of what one angler on the boat said was “the largest mass of tarpon I’ve ever seen.”[…]
Inshore Fishing
More Barataria Bay trout-fishing hotspots
LaRocca’s Camp isn’t the only tried-and-true Barataria Bay trout mecca.[…]
Offshore Fishing
Terminal tackle tips for more mangroves
Capt. Lane Zimmer has battled mangrove snapper enough to have seen all the highs and lows that come with going after these smart fish inhabiting oil rigs close to Louisiana’s coastline.[…]
Offshore Fishing
How to catch lemonfish while mangrove snapper fishing
When fishing for mangroves, Capt. Lane Zimmer always keeps a few rods at the ready in case he spots a curious lemonfish cruising the surface.[…]
Sidebars
Capt. Rykert Toledano’s tips for night specks
While Away Charters’ Rykert Toledano Jr. loves to fish for speckled trout at night during August and September, the hottest time of the year.[…]
Inshore Fishing
Delacroix’s tres amigos
Capt. Rykert Toledano Jr. puckishly calls Farley Dennis and Kelly LeBouef “good guys and good friends, but best of all cheap labor.”[…]
Inshore Fishing
How to keep live bait alive
Having live bait can make the difference in having a successful trip. Live bait is also expensive.[…]
Inshore Fishing
Zeroing in on Lake Pontchartrain specks
The Lake Pontchartrain Causeway consists of two spans of bridge, each 24 miles long. That’s a lot of bridge.[…]
Inshore Fishing
The Kwik Klip
Every speck and redfish fisherman who stows his rods in vertical holders has snagged a shirt on an exposed treble hook, been bopped on the head by a popping cork flopping in the wind or has spent frustrating moments untangling a snarled rod instead of fishing.[…]