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Breton Sound Beat-down — Trout fishing tips for Breton Sound
The urban dictionary of slang defines a “beat-down” as when you pummel or repeatedly beat something (or someone) into submission.[…]
Southeast LA
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Young man’s game — Diver shares tips for spearfishing for catfish
The story of the old bull and the young bull is almost cliché.[…]
Inshore Fishing
Surf and Turf
Producer Jared Serigné traded in his camera for a rod and reel on this episode to take Hack Attack to some of his favorite grassy lakes in Delacroix, LA. The two worked the milfoil beds and filled the boat with bass and reds.[…]
Freshwater Fishing
Basin producing huge bream
It’s been at least 25 years since my younger brother Greg, my dad Allen and I fished together. So it was an even bet whether or not we’d all survive the trip when we loaded up Monday morning to make a bream-fishing trip to the Atchafalaya Basin.[…]
General
Cooking American lotus seeds
As soon as Joey Fonseca got home, he poured a huge glass of swamp bay leaf tea and retreated to his shady back porch to extract the gran à voler seeds from their pods.[…]
Ducks
Getting a duck boat ready for hunting season
The father-son due of Hank and Andy Johnston of The Boat Doctor Inc. were the perfect people to interview on getting a duck boat ready to hunt.[…]
General
Wildman
Raymond Joseph “Joey” Fonseca Jr. is a complex man. By vocation, the 61-year-old is a commercial fisherman. By avocation he can be called an articulate philosopher of the wilds.[…]
General
The grain that flew
The literal interpretation from Cajun French to English for “gran à voler” is “grain that flew,” apparently because the ripe seeds are supposed to shoot out of the pods.[…]
Inshore Fishing
What’s new? Baby VuDu!
The VuDu Shrimp baits have taken this area by storm, and tackle shops are having trouble keeping them on the shelves.[…]
Inshore Fishing
Lighted public fishing piers
Lighted public fishing piers[…]
Bass Fishing
Freshwater diversions not without controversy
Kevin Schilling said flatly that having the freshwater diversion is “the key” the Caernarvon bass fishery.[…]
Bass Fishing
Tackle information
Schilling’s main fishing reels are old-fashioned Abu Garcia 5500 Ambassadeur bait casters. They are used whenever he fishes with worms, frogs or flukes.[…]
Bass Fishing
Kevin Schilling in the news
Kevin Schilling is only 33, but has popped up twice before in New Orleans area fishing news.[…]
Bass Fishing
Hack Tyson’s Punchout
In the 1987 Nintendo released the video game, “Mike Tyson’s Punchout”. It is one of the best received video games of all time. Fast forward to 2014 when bass pro and Sportsman TV host Greg Hackney decided to make a quick trip to lake Des Allemands using the bass fishing technique known as “punching”.[…]
Ask Captain Paul
Polecat Bend and Baldwin Lodge
Dear Capt. Paul:
Have you ever heard of a fishing place called Baldwin Lodge? It is somewhere near the Polecat Bend, wherever that is located. I believe that it is somewhere in Lake Pontchartrain.[…]
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Draining Venice — Fishing tips for inshore Venice action
The sun peeked over the eastern horizon from behind murky clouds, while an easterly breeze carried the scent of rotting catfish and stingrays that littered the shoreline.[…]