Louisiana Sportsman

Humberto’s Trashcan Slam

June 11, 2015 Sportsman Network

Humberto Fontova has been writing for Louisiana Sportsman Magazine since 1989 and his style is definitely that of the common man.[…]

C Mac’s Elmer’s Island Restoration

June 11, 2015 Sportsman Network

C Mac’s thoughts on Elmer’s island restoration.[…]

Hog Islands

June 8, 2015 Captain Paul Titus

Dear Capt. Paul,

By any chance do you have the latitude-longitude coordinates for a place called Hog Island? I used to fish it some 30 years ago.[…]

Plucking the Pearl — Keys to bass-fishing success on the Pearl River

June 1, 2015 Chris Berzas

Covington’s Jason Pittman and his son Trenton worked the mouth of a canal leading into the river channel, working Mister Twister Jerk Rats — flat-bodied puffs of plastic with twin tails — across gator grass patches near points.[…]

Get Out — Keys for catching Delacroix trout this summer

June 1, 2015 Chris Ginn

I can’t tell you how many times I walk through my house during summer to find my kids plopped on the couch Instagramming, Snapchatting, Facebooking or watching plain, old-fashioned television.[…]

Stupid fishing

June 1, 2015 Jerald Horst

“Ya wanna go fishing, Stupid?” the voice rang from up the aisle at the Louisiana Sportsman’s Show in Gonzales.[…]

Last stop — How to fish east of Cocodrie in a small boat

June 1, 2015 John McQueen

Let’s start with a confession: I have an issue with hard-headedness. It spans well beyond fishing, but for this purpose we’ll focus on fishing — specifically the lifelong pursuit of all things speckled trout.[…]

Jigs for briny pigs — Primer on using jigs for offshore success

June 1, 2015 David A. Brown

Do you have to have live bait when fishing offshore? Well, it doesn’t hurt. But choose the right jig for the job, and you could be fighting bigger fish.[…]

Bastian Bay Blast — Best bets for Port Sulphur and Empire trout, reds and drum

June 1, 2015 Humberto Fontova

Scarlett O’Hara often got this look. But poor Ashley Wilkes never noticed. Glenn Close got it in Fatal Sttraction, and Michael Douglas caught it in the nick of time.[…]

Port Eads is ready!

May 21, 2015 Sportsman Network

Port Eads is located at south pass of the Mississippi River.[…]

How do you estimate the weight of a redfish?

May 19, 2015 Andy Crawford

The story of the catch and release May 15 of what would almost certainly have been a Louisiana state-record redfish evoked a predictable response on social media — cries that the fish in the photo just couldn’t be big enough to make the record books, much less shatter the current 61-pound state record.[…]