Inshore Fishing
The right time for roadside fishing
Road fishermen are not daybreak fishermen, I learned.[…]
Southeast LA
Inshore Fishing
Electrician’s Flexi Ties are multi-purpose fishing accessory
Fishing with an electrician does have its advantages. […]
Inshore Fishing
How the Lake Pontchartrain Trestles was built
The bridge modern-day trout fishermen call the Trestles is old. In fact, nobody who fishes it today was alive when it was first built.[…]
Inshore Fishing
How the Cressons fish the Lake Pontchartrain Trestles
Tom Cresson’s fishing style has changed since he and his wife purchased their lake house and Karen started fishing.[…]
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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.[…]
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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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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.”[…]
Offshore Fishing
How Mitch preps a hoo
Ballyhoo are considered to be one of the premier trolling baits for wahoo, dolphin, tuna, marlin, sailfish, and king mackerel.[…]
Inshore Fishing
Pointe-aux-Chenes WMA flounder hotspots
Although the weir on Island Drive is one of his main fall-back options, Ty Hibbs actually prefers fishing a few of the other Pointe-aux-Chenes Wildlife Management Area weirs and bayous because they — in his estimation — actually offer a little bit better fishing.[…]
Inshore Fishing
Pinpoint flounder by finding bluff banks
As Ty Hibbs and I ventured away from the Island Road weir and headed back to the weir on the western levee of the impoundment, he kept pointing out spots he thought would hold flounder.[…]
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.[…]