Hands down, June is the busiest month in my little fishing community. It is the prime month for fishing tournaments, called rodeos, and as a result, prime time for camp rentals. That means I’ve been super busy booking the camp and cleaning it and doing laundry. School is out, while schools of trout make their…
Recently, I had the opportunity to do some winter speckled trout fishing with Lyle Johnson of Ascension Outdoors TV show. Lyle is always fun to compete with on a fishing trip; although I never set up the competition–it just somehow happens. He’s a great sport, and we enjoy the banter, but not as much as…
It was my great pleasure to bring in the new year with a fishing trip on January 3rd with the distinguished Dr. Kenneth Klaus, of Nicholls State University in Thibodaux, LA. Along with him were his two sons, musical geniuses in their own right.
Gingey, pronounced Jin-Jee, is the term of endearment my second son calls his sweet red-headed wife. I’m not sure why it’s taken so long for me to get the two of them out on a fishing adventure together, but I’m so glad we took advantage of an absolutely gorgeous October day this week.
Lyle Johnson and Goosie Guice are the co-hosts of “Ascension Outdoors”, an outdoor TV show around the Baton Rouge area, and I had the honor of having them on my boat and fishing for speckled trout in what I like to call MY lake, although it isn’t my lake at all. Truth is, I just…
A line from “Steel Magnolias” went through my head more than once while watching the participants of the Sixth Annual Grand Isle Ladies Fishing Rodeo arrive dockside at Bridgeside Marina Saturday afternoon, “The whole sanctuary looks like it’s been drenched in Pepto-bismol!” Not only is pink the signature color of the main character of said movie, but it’s also the signature color of anything having to do with Breast Cancer Awareness, and believe me, there’s no way anyone could attend this magnificent event and not be aware.