Statewide LA

Bass Fishing

Tinkering with confidence

May 30, 2005 Marty Cannon

I had to look on the package to see if this would be OK or not. I mean, remove the hooks and put on red ones? Bend something, tweak this, and change that? Is it legal? No one ever told me I could do this before.

Well, the manufacturer did not say to keep away except for tying it on and casting it out, so it must be allowed, right?

Modifying your current stock of fishing lures may just be the most-important thing you do, ranking right up there with changing your line and cleaning your reels.

Sure, fishing is fishing, but we’ve all been there on days when our favorite lure just didn’t quite get the job done.

The idea of modified lures came from a good friend, Scott Louviere, who presented me with one as a going-away present last summer. Like me, Louviere likes to fish for bass in the Acadiana area.
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Red Rage

May 25, 2005 Chris Ginn

Red is hot. Red is a strong color that conjures up conflicting emotions from passionate love to violence and warfare. […]

General

Inverters handy to have on a boat

May 25, 2005 Allan Tarvid

When work or play calls for AC power on your boat or tow vehicle, an inverter is usually the simplest and least-expensive way to provide it. Just plug the inverter into a cigarette lighter or accessory power socket and then plug your AC tools or toys into the inverter.[…]

Bass Fishing

Lure Review

May 25, 2005 Don Shoopman

The Texan whose artificial lures speak for themselves with their productivity, so much so that they have become a staple in the tackleboxes of pros and weekend anglers alike, can’t help but be proud of a spinnerbait series that’s hooking up bass from Texas to all points of the compass, including Louisiana.[…]

Bass Fishing

Perfecting Patterns

April 24, 2005 Chris Ginn

Roland Martin is given credit for having coined the phrase “pattern fishing” during the 1970s. He was one of the first anglers in the country to understand that replicating the exact set of water conditions like depth, cover, structure, temperature, clarity and current prevalent when he got a bite would lead to many more bites.[…]

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2005 Speck Forecast

April 24, 2005 Todd Masson

As a biologist, Jerald Horst has cut out the livers of speckled trout, and examined them under microscopes.

He’s run his fingers through gravid ovaries packed with ripe, orange roe.

He’s opened stomachs to discover their contents.

But there was nothing scientific about Horst’s reaction last month when a trout as long as a man’s arm carved a hole in the water with its gaping maw, and sucked in his She Dog.

The sounds were loud enough to be heard on the other side of the small marsh lake — first from the fish crashing the bait, then from Horst, who jumped to his feet and squealed like a schoolgirl who just caught a glimpse of her favorite boy-band member.

After several earlier near-misses from other fish, Horst practiced great restraint in letting the big trout take the bait for a second or two before yanking the rod upward like Paul Bunyan starting a swing of his axe.

The light-action rod bowed like a noodle, its tip seeming to crawl along the line, refusing to miss a moment of the action.

A veteran angler who has logged more hours than he’d ever admit in the surf at Grand Isle, Fourchon and Elmer’s Island, Horst had caught bigger trout in his life, but this one was special, just like all fish lured to the surface by a topwater plug.[…]