Living and fishing in SE Louisiana you learn one thing fast: It’s more fun and productive when it’s cooler. This was reinforced often during the 10 years I spent as editor of Louisiana Outdoors from 1995 to 2005. Just about every charter fishing captain I worked with or wrote about, had three or four months out of the year …
The Misadventures of P.T. and Bob Crawfishin’ Fever (or, “Bob, it’s not fish bait… it’s food!”) Boiling pot, gas burner, corn, potatoes, carrots, onions, hot dogs, secret ingredients from down at the corner store… the only thing missing is about 50 pounds of fat, juicy crawfish. Come March, there’s just about nothing I rather pig out on then some hot, …
The Misadventures of P.T. and Bob Uncle Alvin and the Fishing Rodeo (reprinted from 1996) “C’mon, Bob. Shake out of it. Those last few fishing trips were just plain bad. You’re not bad luck and you’re really not a bad fisherman – sometimes we all have those streaks where you couldn’t catch fish in a net.” Of course, I didn’t …
Finding Fish Isn’t Always Easy But the right Captain and the right bait will put fish in the boat by Joe Gibson (This article is from Louisiana Outdoors Magazine, August 2004 edition) It wasn’t what I would call a “perfect” day for chasing speckled trout, but sometimes you have to fish when you have the chance. At 5:30 a.m. it …
