Louisiana Sportsman

Zeroing in on Lake Pontchartrain specks

October 15, 2015 Jerald Horst

The Lake Pontchartrain Causeway consists of two spans of bridge, each 24 miles long. That’s a lot of bridge.[…]

The Kwik Klip

October 15, 2015 Jerald Horst

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.[…]

Lake Pontchartrain trout-fishing tools

October 15, 2015 Jerald Horst

Greg Schlumbrecht likens bottom-fishing soft plastics on the Causeway to bass fishin[…]

How Mitch preps a hoo

October 15, 2015 Jerald Horst

Ballyhoo are considered to be one of the premier trolling baits for wahoo, dolphin, tuna, marlin, sailfish, and king mackerel.[…]

Pointe-aux-Chenes WMA flounder hotspots

October 15, 2015 Chris Ginn

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.[…]

Pinpoint flounder by finding bluff banks

October 15, 2015 Chris Ginn

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.[…]

Extremely rare albino fox squirrel killed on Richard K. Yancey WMA

October 6, 2015 Chris Berzas

Shane Vidrine was just happy to be in the woods again hunting squirrels Sunday morning, the second day of Louisiana’s season.[…]

Monster Mash — Catching Lake Pontchartrain’s Halloween trout

October 1, 2015 Jerald Horst

“Most people have never seen a 5-pound speckled trout. They call a 2 ½-pound fish 5 pounds. I know that because they do it on my boat all the time. A 5-pound trout is huge!”[…]

A softer approach to deer hunting

October 1, 2015 Humberto Fontova

Artie’s cousin Cliff was seriously pumped, despite the LSU-Auburn disaster unfolding on Doc’s mega-screen TV.[…]

Hooked! Fishing guide shares tips for trout success at Shell Beach, Hopedale

October 1, 2015 Rusty Tardo

I think the first time I fished with Capt. Tim “Hook” Ursin Jr. was back in the early to mid-1990s. At the time he was running his charter service out of the End of the World Marina on Delacroix Island — and we were both a lot younger then.[…]

Flounder fantasy — Tips for Point-aux-Chenes WMA flounder

October 1, 2015 Chris Ginn

If Ray Scott had been a flounder fanatic rather than a bass buff, I would have signed up as his first lifetime member of Flounder Masters and granted him easy access to my coffers.[…]

13-foot gator caught with bass rod

September 24, 2015 Andy Crawford

Prairieville’s Hansel Rivere Jr. knew a big gator was prowling about the north end of Lake Verret because of the size of the hole the reptile had dug in a levee near the Five Fingers area.[…]