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Monday, October 5, 2009
October is for Saltwater in La! Well I just got the news in! For those of you fishing in La it seems the Hopedale area is hot right now for both trout and reds. Especially Shell Beach. They are catching them with shrimp about 3 ft down under a popping cork. Live shrimp for the trout and dead shrimp for the reds. Give it a try and good fishing to all! Posted at 07:45 PM
Wednesday, September 30, 2009
Fall is here! Finally! The rain has stopped and the first good cool snap is here! It's in the 60's here and I am enjoying it. The trout are starting to move into the marsh and the big schools of smoker reds are inshore and moving along the beaches right now. The bass are biting all day and I can enjoy fishing all day again. So I am going to go pretty quick as soon as I can get my engine running again. Suggest you do the same! :-} BTW, I now have a forum on my website and also added a photo gallery as well. So if you want a new chance to show off your bigguns come check it out! Good fishing to all!! Posted at 11:32 AM
Friday, August 21, 2009
LA redfish Well this is just a quick note to let others know how good the fishing is right now here in south Louisianna. I stopped to fish the canal running alongside the highway between fourchon and grand isle yesterday between storms and in about 20 minutes and a few casts with a cocoho minnow I caught 3 reds and about 6 schoolie trout. The trout wasn't large enuff to keep but it still was great fun. I'm including a pic of the largest red below. Good fishing all! Bassprochuck Posted at 12:09 AM
Thursday, July 23, 2009
Offshore Lures you can make in a Pinch! Gonna go wild and do two today cause I just thought of this and maybe it will come in handy for you like it has me. Stuck on a rig or offshore and out of money for lures? At 6 to 12 bucks a pop big lures cost big bucks. These will work well, will save the day or your pocketbook and they are easy to make. First is the poor man's topwater. Cut an old broom stick or mop handle into 6 to 8 inch pieces. You can leave them as is or paint them how you want em. I just spray paint them bright yellow or silver with a burst of red at the head on each side. Drill a hole straight thru them end to end. Put some nails that fit tight in the holes in your box. When ready to rig them run your line thru the stick lure and tie on a large treble hook. Force the nail (or screw) thru the hole on the other end binding the line in place tightly. You now have a great Tuna lure. Trust me it works! Another great lure that's easy to make is the poor man's Diamond jig. Buy one and you're out a chunk as these are easily lost to snags as well as fish. Make your own with a little stainless steel tubing in 3/8 to half inch with just a little effort. Cut the tubing into 4 to 6 inch lengths. Now you wanna make the cuts at a 45 degree angle as this makes them flutter on the fall. Drill a small hole thru the top at one end and thru the top on the other end. Now when you rig this run your line thru the holes and tie off the treble on the end. Peg the top hole with a toothpick binding the line tightly. Fish this by dropping down to the bottom and yo yoing it back up to the top. Fish will usually hit it on the fall. Be ready for it and beware! Big amberjack just love to smash these and I have lost quite a few of these jigs to them. Posted at 07:27 PM
Thursday, July 23, 2009
Summer Shrimping from the Bank! Well it's that time of year again! Shrimping time! This is when I like to go with the family on a cool evening to one of the piers in back bay for a night of fun! Here's the way to do it. Get yourself a 4-6 ft, bait mesh castnet or two, a big cooler of ice, couple of cans of cheap catfood from the dollor store and a 5 lb bag of rabbit pellets. You might even wanna bring a couple of crab traps and the fishing rod with you. Find a well lit dock, preferably one with lights shining on the water. Punch a few holes in the catfood cans and toss out into 3-6 ft of water close to the dock in the lit area. Now throw a few handfulls of the rabbit pellets out scattering them around. Then spend the next half hour or so setting the crab traps and wetting a line. Now go back to your baited area and throw out a couple of more handfuls of pellets. Start throwing, making sure your net goes all the way to the bottom. I like to use a 5 gallon bucket to drop my catch in. I made a lid by cutting a piece of plywood a little larger than the bucket and drilling a thumbhole thru the lid making it easy to get on and off. Be sure to cover the bucket with a lid or a towel or something as eating size shrimp will jump out of the bucket easily. When you have the chance transfer the shrimp to the cooler. Throw until you have your limit or get tired. Whichever comes first! Make sure and keep spreading the pellets in your casting area every 15 mins or so. The catfood oil brings em and the pellets keep em there. Bring a bud or your family and make it an evening. Great summer fun and good eating! Didn't catch enuff to eat(rare!)? Well there's your bait for tomorrow or freeze for the next trip you go on. Either way it is usally well worth the trip. Don't know how to throw a cast net? It's actually a lot easier than it looks. A good site to see how (with pictures!) is here:http://www.castnetworld.com/cast-net-throwing.html Posted at 04:42 PM
Monday, July 13, 2009
Tiger! (Shark, that is) Well I went offshore in the Gulf Saturday to a platform about 90 miles south of Cameron La. While I was there one of the hands caught a Tiger Shark that was at least 10 ft. long on a hand line using 1/2 in nylon rope baited with about a 4 lb turd fish. Before they could get it up on the platform I had to leave. While it was hanging another one at least as big came around to check him out as did a bull dolphin (mahi mahi) weighing at least 80 lbs or more. I will be adding the pictures soon! Just another reminder that you never know what you'll catch in the gulf!! Posted at 01:40 AM
Tuesday, July 7, 2009
Tips for Summer Schooling Bass Hi all! Well weather and circumstances conspired to prevent me from fishing this weekend so you'll have to settle for another tip this time. Hope it comes in handy for some of ya'll and if anybody catches more it'll be well worth my time. This has to do with summer schoolies. Bass on top! It can be awesome and it can be rod breaking frustrating. If you have ever spent a day chasing them you know what I'm talking about. Here's some tricks I spent many a summer's day learning. First thing, if you are fishing a lake with a resident sea gull population look for them! If you see more than one in an area odds are the fish are near. Gulls have an uncanny knack for spotting schooling fish and are on them quick. If you see a bunch of them and they are diving often for the water, drop everything and head thier way. They are on schooling fish! Remember tho to stop the big motor at least 50 yrds off and troll into them casting all the way. Nothing will put schoolies down quicker than a big motor coming in. And avoid dropping anything in the boat as the sound travels a lot better in water than it does on land. Don't have the birds? Watch for baitfish jumping across the top or you'll often see boils erupting across an area. If you see a baitfish skipping across the top and then see it disappear to a boil of water or a small splash you are into the schoolies. If you're really lucky you'll see the water foam white or boil in a confined area. You can often hear the "pop" as a bass takes a baitfish on top. Again you are in the fish. Largemouth, stripers, hybrids and white bass among others will do this at various times of the year but bass really like to feed this way in the hottest days of summer. Now as to lures. A variety of lures will work but the best thing I have found is a small, loud topwater with a jig trailer. This will often result in dual hookups. Two fish at once is quite fun when it happens. I use a clear Heddon Tiny Torpedo with a white or yellow 1/16oz curly tail jig tied off the back treble about a foot behind. This will KILL schooling bass. All small fish? Keep a 1/4oz chrome rattle trap or a sinking rapala rigged on a second rod and run it down about 3-6ft. The larger bass will hold below the smaller schoolies on top to catch the wounded baitfish falling thru the school. I have caught some really big bass hanging below a school of 10-12" bass. Some people will keep a carolina rigged worm to bounce thru below the school and catch some lunkers this way. I find it takes up too much time but it does work. Time is the important thing to remember. You do NOT have much of it. While bass sometimes will school in an area all day, by far more often they are thier and gone within 5-10 mins or so. Then it's back to slowly trolling around watching for the school to come back up so you can find them. Sometimes they come right back up and keep doing it, and sometimes they come back up 20 mins later and half the lake away. You haul butt over and get a couple of casts in, maybe put 2 or 3 bass in the boat and they are gone again. It can go on this way all day. But when you get into a good school? You can fill a cooler in an hour easy. And while it can be a long frustrating day chasing fish around a lake it can also be a day to remember! Another thing to keep in mind is that the bass will school in the oddest places. You'll often see them chasing baitfish in the middle of the flooded timber! Fun to get to when they do that I can tell you. Keep your eye on the fish but watch for stumps and low water as well. Safety first always. Nothing can ruin a trip worse than losing a prop or worse yet a lower unit cause you were watching the school and not where you were going! Hope this helps and good fishing to all! Chuck Posted at 09:42 PM
Friday, June 26, 2009
Canoeing or floating for bass on small rivers and streams Well this stems from a couple of buddies of mine complaining that they went canoeing for the weekend down the Brazos river in Tx and only caught a few fish all weekend. They said they tried everything and nothing worked! So I let them in on this trick. Hands down the best method to fishing small rivers and streams that I have found works everywhere and almost any time of day in all types of weather. Try it next time you feel like canoeing or just floating down for a day. The secret? Use a small topwater lure with a propeller or 2. Tiny torpedo's work quite well. Just cast as close to the bank as you can, especially into the shadows(overhanging branches, etc..) waith a moment, then twitch it slowly back into you. Everything hits this presentation! From big brim to garfish as well as bass by the buckets. I have caught bass to over 7 pounds in the brazos(below possum kingdom lake where it rarely gets over 4 ft in depth) to an 8 1/2 pounder on the red river with just this method alone. When no one else was catching anything we were having a ball! The secret is that all small rivers and streams have undercut banks with lots of holes and the fish hide in these waiting for something to fall in from the bank or the trees and bushes. Then they pop out, strike and a quick easy snack is gotten. A small topwater imitates this perfectly. Just remember to fish it slow and easy without too much noise. Don't worry, they'll find it! LOLS
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Friday, June 19, 2009
Fishing in Summer heat! Well we went a weekend or so ago and caught a few flounder and a couple of reds as well as a few small trout. The fish are there but it's tuff. Ya gotta work at it and definately go out early! Try to catch the water moving and try all the ambush spots you can find. Points, Breaks in the grass and quick drop offs are always good bets. Oh and make sure you work the oyster beds as long as water is moving. Be patient and you'll put a few in the boat for a good meal. And it always beats mowing the grass don't it? Posted at 11:41 PM
Thursday, June 4, 2009
My First Blog! Fishing Tips and Tricks Hi all! Well I'm Bassprochuck,53 yrs old and a cajun born and bred from New Iberia, La. I am very well traveled tho as I moved to Fort Myers, Fla at 11 and went in the USAF at 19 for 22 yrs before I retired in 1996. I'm a vietnam era and Desert Storm vet and now live in La again where I spend my time between MS and La fishing mostly saltwater these days. During that time I have hunted and fished all over the US and the world and garnered quite a bit of knowledge about many places, what they have to offer and various tips and tricks to get them. It has been quite interesting and a lot of fun and made for many awesome memories as well. So I would like to take this opportunity to share them here. I will be writing about trips to all kinds of places for all kind of species and hope you find this blog entertaining as well as informative. I have fished with cutbait in Sagami Bay in japan, cast 6" Rapalas for monster pike in the Isabella chain of lakes in Madrid, Spain as well as weekend floated a canoe down the Brazos river in Tx casting topwater for bass and tournament fished all the 80's away for bass throughout the South. I presently spend most of my time fishing for specs and reds through out south La. and MS. Looking forward to sharing with all of you and please ask questions and comment. I will do my best to find you answers. I also have a website(for fun. NOT for profit!) that I started some time back and ant to take this opportunity to invite all of you to check it out, especially the forum! THe website addy is:http://Bassprochucks.weebly.com/ Thanks for reading! Chuck Posted at 08:21 PM |
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