Inshore Fishing
How to set the hook on a topwater bait
The trick to sinking the hooks on a topwater into a fish’s mouth isn’t the same as when fishing a jig. In other words, don’t jerk the snot out of it when a fish picks up the lure.[…]
Southeast LA
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A labor of love — How the New Orleans Big Game Fishing Club began
Louisiana is blessed in all things that come from the water. Its reputation as a seafood-producing and consuming state is unequaled.[…]
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Fourchon Meat Haul — Catch boxes of sheepshead by fishing the rigs just off Louisiana’s coast
The call to Doc Fontaine seemed perfunctory, a mere formality — almost pointless. After all, traditionally, mooching a Grand Isle camp for a weekend in February ain’t too hard.[…]
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Rip Dash Rocked — Spend time fishing with this local rock legend
Roughly 15 hours of every day of my childhood were spent fishing in Southwest Florida. In my late teens, I put aside the rod after picking up the guitar.[…]
Inshore Fishing
Dularge camp provides rock muse
Rows of houses out in the water looked in every way like a regular, quaint neighborhood, except totally lacking in roads.[…]
Inshore Fishing
Limits of speckled trout being caught out of DuLarge
Changes in water temperatures are usually the catalyst that causes trout to transition from marshes to the lakes and vice versa.[…]
Inshore Fishing
Drift ‘Yaking
Anchoring and trolling are undoubtedly productive methods of fishing in Southeast Louisiana.[…]
Hunting
Hunting seasons to reopen on three WMAs flooded by recent heavy rains
Hunting seasons on three wildlife management areas closed earlier this month due to high water levels will reopen tomorrow (Jan. 23), the Louisiana Department of Wildlife & Fisheries announced today.[…]
News Breaker
Duck hunting this season in lower Mississippi River Delta poor, guides say
A duck hunt last week with Cajun Fishing Adventures’ Ross Montet in Buras featured low duck numbers, which wasn’t a surprise to the guide — even after a pack of nearly 100 gadwalls flared as his boat entered the open water near the launch.[…]
Inshore Fishing
Redfish and drum abundant in Buras
After a relatively poor morning of duck hunting near Buras last week, Capt. Johnny Hodge with Cajun Fishing Adventures decided to head to the east side of the river to try for some redfish.[…]
Hunting
Hunting on Pearl River WMA stopped because of flood waters
Hunting on Pearl River Wildlife Management Area will be prohibited beginning Friday (Jan. 11) because of high water, the Louisiana Department of Wildlife & Fisheries announced today.[…]
Inshore Fishing
The Gold Mine
If you fish the famed Sulfur Mine in Galliano, you likely won’t find any gold, but you will find lots of silver and bronze. This old industrial mine site is a perfect place to take your kayak for limits of wintertime specks and reds.[…]
Breaking News
Recreational snapper management to be discussed in Baton Rouge meeting
The Gulf of Mexico Fishery Management Council has scheduled a scoping meeting for Monday (Jan. 14) in Baton Rouge during which possible regional management of recreational red snapper will be discussed.[…]
Inshore Fishing
Pearl of Plaquemines: An inside look at the Empire fishing grounds
Gazing from atop the Empire Bridge in southern Plaquemines Parish, one can see literally thousands of white PVC pipes sticking up from atop oyster beds.[…]
Inshore Fishing
Z-Man offers something truly different
Louisiana anglers, by and large, hate soft-plastic baits that tear up quicker than wet toilet paper.[…]
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The more things change — Fishing for trout, bass, redfish at The Pen
Change is inevitable in coastal marsh.
The tide gives when it rises and takes away when it falls.
Land piles up in some places while washing away in others.
Fish that you couldn’t stop from biting one day cease to exist the next.
Nowhere is this change more evident than in The Pen. One of the most-famous fishing holes in all of Southeast Louisiana, this Lafitte hotspot once wasn’t even a lake.[…]