Inshore Fishing
Species spotlight: black drum
Black drum are plentiful and can be found in a variety of habitats. They eat a wide range of foods, and provide lots of enjoyment to anglers across the southeastern states.[…]
Statewide LA
Ducks
What happened to all the ducks?
For duck hunters wondering about specifics as to why the duck season was poor, Larry Reynolds, the waterfowl study leader for the Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries, shared his thoughts.[…]
Columns
Fly tying 201
Getting started in fly tying, and the benefits of tying your own flies.[…]
Events & Announcements
2019 Boat Show dates announced
If you’re in the market for a new boat in 2019, you’ve got five great opportunities over the next three months to conveniently shop and compare models, features and prices across South Louisiana.[…]
News Breaker
Marsh Man Masson video: The absolute best way to fillet speckled trout
Speckled trout are Louisiana’s most popular coastal fish. They’re more plentiful in the Bayou State than anywhere else on the planet, and that means if you’re an angler down here, you probably regularly put a whole bunch on ice.[…]
Columns
Fly Lines: Army veteran’s catch tops list of 2018 fly fishing awards
Catch Cormier recognizes the best of Louisiana fly fishing from 2018.[…]
Fishing
Tippets: VOSI
The fall migration of speckled trout to the interior marshes is in full force. Good days will be on a light south wind and a moving tide. Weighted baitfish and shrimp patterns under a VOSI will deliver numbers of school trout.[…]
Columns
Here come the ducks
Louisiana’s 2018-19 duck season begins on Nov. 10 in both the West and Coastal Zones. The first segment runs through Dec. 2, and reopens on Dec. 15 for the second split, which ends on Jan. 20. […]
Columns
Don’t ‘kick’ the bucket
A good 5-gallon bucket has multiple uses as hunting season cranks up this fall. […]
Deer Hunting
Prep for success in the second half of deer season
How to make any necessary adjustments and change up your game plan to have success during the second half of Louisiana’s deer season.[…]
Ducks
Hunting flooded timber for ducks in Louisiana
Although it’s not as prevalent as it once was, flooded timber still provides Louisiana’s hunters with plenty of opportunities to fill their straps.[…]
Field Notes
Add a topwater ‘shock absorber’
How to create a shock absorber between the main braid and your lures.[…]
Ducks
How to set up your duck decoys
Dekes are probably the most important controllable factor for the average hunter. Here’s how to set ‘em up — so you can shoot ‘em down.[…]
Deer Hunting
Creating mock scrapes to hunt white-tail deer
Creating mock scrapes is a great way to provoke a big buck into shooting range — here’s how to get it done and put a big deer into your crosshairs.[…]
Deer Hunting
Church Point business bottles fresh doe-in-heat urine
Anglers would be the first to tell you that fresh is best. I mean, who wants to eat freezer-burned speckled trout fillets a year after they were caught?[…]
Bass Fishing
Top 3 wintertime bass baits
Nothing like topwater frog explosions Bassmaster Elite Series pro Keith Combs has to put fish in the boat year round, but he experiences what every other angler does during the summer: Tough fishing, when five