Fabulous 5 — Louisinana's top bream-fishing lakes

Most of the time you’ll find bream not as big as crappie and not as heavy as bass or catfish. You may have to clean quite a few, especially if you fillet them, to feed a family for a Friday night fish fry.

Sportsman TV heads offshore for some tuna fishing

On a fairly calm day in mid-May, Sportsman TV host Greg Hackney, Bowie Outfitters’ David Reynerson and Capt. Trey Pique of VooDoo Sportfishing Charters in Venice landed four tuna averaging 80 pounds each.

Toledo Bend Lunker Bass Program sets record

If you’re one of the many thousands of anglers who each year catches a trophy bass at Toledo Bend, you have a few options.

South Pass gives up 7-pound trout

When Capt. Allen Moreau set the hook Tuesday, he knew he had a good fish. It turned out to be a 7-pound speckled trout.

High-school bass fishing receives House support

The House Education Committee unanimously approved a resolution Tuesday that could lead to the establishment of competitive bass-fishing tournaments for Louisiana’s high schools.

NOAA removes 31 fishing spots from official Plaquemines Parish maps

“Accuse not Nature, she hath don her part.”
—Paradise Lost, John Milton, 1667

It’s a busy morning off the floor of the state House of Representatives, where lobbyists and reporters are bird-dogging lawmakers, looking for votes and quotes. Still new to freshman Rep. Chris Leopold, a Republican from Belle Chasse whose district follows the winding Mississippi River well below Venice, the pace and stress of ongoing budget hearings are beginning to show.