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Stumpknockers May 15 at 7:00 am This pretty little fish, properly known as a spotted sunfish, is quite often caught by bluegill fishermen who are fishing in sluggish streams, swamps and lowland lakes. Most look at them and shrug their shoulders because they don’t know what they are, judge them to be a little too small to clean and toss them back overboard. |
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Looking for Toledo Bend bream in all the right places May 15 at 7:00 am Toledo Bend is vast, so there are myriad areas in which to look for bream beds. |
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Never cut an anchor lose again May 15 at 7:00 am Bream will stack up where tangles of cover is scattered along the lake bottom, and that means anchoring often results in anchor hang-ups. |
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Groving deep-hooked fish May 15 at 7:00 am Any slack in the line will allow fish to swallow the hook pretty deep. And the small mouths of bream can make it difficult to remove them. |
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A better anchor May 15 at 7:00 am Although Lyle Soileau definitely uses a standard anchor, he also has another tool to help hold his pontoon boat in place. |
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Black Bayou Lake is pretty as a postcard May 15 at 7:00 am Black Bayou Lake, the centerpiece of the Black Bayou Lake National Wildlife Refuge, is pretty as a postcard. The 2,000-acre, cypress tree-studded lake holds vast beds of American lotus, a plant with huge, lily pad-like leaves up to 3 feet across and beautiful 6-inch yellow flowers. |
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Bluegills May 15 at 7:00 am This feisty species is definitely the backbone of the bream fishery. It gets big — for a bream —at 10 inches, and during its summer-long spawning season forms dense beds of nests. Like all members of the sunfish family, the nest is formed by the male and guarded from before spawning until the young have hatched and left the beds. |
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Change has come to Balck Bayou Lake May 15 at 7:00 am Freddie McMullen, now a successful 51-year-old Monroe orthodontist, spent his formative years on Black Bayou Lake. |
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The bream of Louisiana May 15 at 7:00 am The word “bream” (pronounced “brim”) is a Southernism. Our northern friends call them by their proper species name, or they lump them all together as sunfish — which sounds altogether too sissy-like. In the South, we talk about bull bream. |
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Freddie McMullen’s hot Black Bayou Lake bream-fishing tips May 15 at 7:00 am • Catching bull bream is largely a matter of finding their spawning beds in the shallows near the lake edge. |
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West Monroe tackle shop specializes in white perch tackle and information May 15 at 7:00 am When I moved up to Monroe to attend college after I got out of the Army, I immediately looked up tackle shops in the phone book. |
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New fishing line could benefit crappie anglers May 15 at 7:00 am When folks spool up their reels with line before heading off to Lake D’Arbonne, they typically use anything from 4- to 10-pound test. Honey Hole Tackle Shop owner David Owen prefers 6-pound test because he believes it’s a good combination of finesse and strength. |
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