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Yak attack — How to fish Prien Lake with a kayak
The three kayaks looked like sleek raiders fanning out into Prien Lake from a friend’s pier near the public launch on the lake’s eastern shore. […]
Southwest LA
Inshore Fishing
Top-notch Turner’s Bay trout fishing
If Jeff Poe had his druthers — and he does — he’d target speckled trout at one of his favorite destinations in November.[…]
Bass Fishing
Toledo Bend bass put on feed sacks
We’ve weathered the scorching summer and got teased about things to come, as far as bass fishing success in the early fall on Toledo Bend. Now we’re all in for what promises to be a great month.[…]
Bass Fishing
Sabine River bass are such fun
When Ron Castille of Lake Charles took a local judge and the judge’s son bass fishing Sept. 1, the bass were ganged up like there’s no tomorrow in a stretch of water he fished on the Sabine River near Orange, Texas.[…]
Columns
Vermilion Bay means seafood to Trout Masters
It didn’t take us long to learn that Vermilion Bay Trout Masters can cook. Here are recipes for crab salad and Zydeco Sauced Fish.[…]
Inshore Fishing
Fish The Cove for consistent fall trout
Speckled trout fishermen don’t have to go far from the Quintana Canal Boat Landing to catch fish in Vermilion Bay this month.[…]
Bass Fishing
Fish are fattening up
“Springtime bassin’ bonanza” in the fall is the best way to describe what’s about to happen on Toledo Bend.[…]
Inshore Fishing
Capt. Erik Rue’s fall redfish lures
Capt. Erik Rue’s go-to bait for most of this morning’s fishing trip was a simple jighead and MirrOlure Lil John Twitchbait, but he made a special effort to point out the effectiveness of the Jenny’s Jigs jighead.[…]
Inshore Fishing
Cameron-Creole Wateshed Project a ‘necessary evil,’ fishing guide says
Much of Rue’s fishing this time of year is done on Cameron Prairie National Wildlife Refuge located on the eastern shore of Calcasieu Lake.[…]
Inshore Fishing
The Cameron-Creole Watershed Project controversy
The Cameron-Creole Watershed Project, like many marsh restoration projects, carries fishing controversy baggage.[…]
Bass Fishing
Toledo Bend is in great shape for September
I’m sure fall isn’t in the air at all when you read this in late August or early September. But “prefall” is just around the corner, which means bass fishing is about to bust loose on Toledo Bend.[…]
Inshore Fishing
Boxcar Reef – Find the ditches to locate big bulls
Fishermen who want to feel the brute force of a sizeable redfish on the business end of their fishing line in Vermilion Bay invariably point the bow of their boat to legendary Boxcar Reef.[…]
News Breaker
SW rigs load up with specks
Leaving Calcasieu Lake for near-offshore oil-field structures pays off with speckled trout in the ice chest when conditions are favorable this month.[…]
Bass Fishing
Toledo Bend tactics for the dog days of summer
As of the next‐to‐last week of June, Toledo Bend still was a little over full pool stage, water was getting hotter and, as you might imagine, the daytime bite for bass was decreasing dramatically. […]
Inshore Fishing
Johnson Bayou’s history
It felt like I was passing through a whole ’nother country on the drive down to Johnson Bayou. It was wide-open space, like the high prairies of North Dakota — Louisiana’s own “Big Sky Country.”[…]
Inshore Fishing
Sabine’s summer trout cycle
Ricky Trahan said the live croaker pattern in the Sabine channel holds from May through September of each year.[…]