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	Elite strategem June 01, 2012 at 7:00 am Dean Rojas won last year’s BASS Elite Series stop at Toledo Bend with 70.15 pounds of bass caught over four days of fishing. Rojas reportedly found fish on beds and caught some on grass flats by fishing a Big Bite Baits WarMouth (a soft plastic that imitates a swimming bream) and a SPRO Hydropop topwater popper on the edges of the grass.

	Tietje’s top 5 anglers to watch June 01, 2012 at 7:00 am Predicting who will win a bass tournament is about as much of a sure thing as predicting what five cards you’re going to get in a hand of poker.

	Tietje’s top 5 Toledo Bend baits June 01, 2012 at 7:00 am Since he isn’t fishing the Bassmaster Elite Series Toledo Bend tournament this year because of a medical exemption, local bass pro Dennis Tietje didn’t mind revealing the five lures that he believes will play big parts in putting together a winning pattern when the pros stop at the Bend this month.

	Tournament schedule June 01, 2012 at 7:00 am The 2012 Bassmaster Elite Series will stop at Toledo Bend in early June, with the world’s top pros prefishing for the event beginning June 4, while competition will kick off at daybreak on June 7 and wrap up on June 10.

	Cover June 01, 2012 at 7:00 am The nation's top bass anglers head to Toledo Bend this month, and the coastal trout action is as hot as it gets.

	Cover June 01, 2012 at 7:00 am The nation's top bass anglers head to Toledo Bend this month, and the coast trout action is as hot as it gets.

	Fishing trip makes bachelor party despite dire weather warnings May 30, 2012 at 1:41 pm With the weekend set, I was eagerly anticipating a full-out ruthless fishing assault at my lil’ brothers bachelor party in Cocodrie. Unexpectedly, there was a last minute curve ball thrown at us: A huge, swirling low-pressure system making its way from Texas was planning to curve toward us all three days.

	June issue ships out today May 17, 2012 at 12:15 pm The Louisiana Sportsman staff are hard at work dotting the I's and crossing the T's of the June issue, and later this afternoon (May 17) the magazine will head to the printers. That means that, within the week, the issue will be arriving in mailboxes and newsstands across the state. Red snapper take center stage this month, and reading this issue will ensure you’re ready to pursue the most-talked-about fish of the summer. If chasing trout is more your thing, we’ve got tips and tricks for fishing Lake Pontchartrain, Delacroix and Lake Raccourci that will have you polishing off your day with limits every time.

	Bait change ends with Toledo Bend lunker bass May 01, 2012 at 11:49 am When New Iberia resident Blake Trahan began the second day of the annual Louisiana Bass Cats Tournament on March 10, he had no idea what lay in store for him. He’d fished the tournament since 2004 and that morning, like the morning before, was windy. Trahan and his fishing partner Peter Romero went back to their “secluded cove” to get out of the wind. And the payoff was a double-digit trophy bass.

	D’Arbonne’s Daffy Divers April 01, 2012 at 7:00 am It was late evening in the early summer. The five men assembled on the back deck of the Petrus family camp, set on a hill slope overlooking Lake D’Arbonne, were engaged in a masculine redneck ritual. Bobby Petrus, a.k.a. “The Claw,” was grilling meat, and all of them were exchanging humorous insults. The rough-and-tumble humor, mixed with an equal blend of braggadocio and self-deprecation, was delivered with powerful North Louisiana twangs in what a Cajun or a New Orleanian would consider a foreign language.

	Texas angler weighs 14-pound bass into Toledo Bend tournament March 05, 2012 at 9:48 am It’s a good thing Ryan Pinkston was fishing the Bass-N-Bucks Toledo Bend tournament on Feb. 25. Otherwise, no one would have believed the fishing story he had to tell. The Center, Texas, angler was fishing alone and caught fish like crazy, ultimately putting together five fish weighing more than 36 pounds - including one specimen that pushed the scales to 14.62 pounds. “I didn’t know what I had done,” Pinkston said. “I didn’t realize it would be that much attention (attached to the catch)."

	Big Bass Photo Contest cranks up February 10, 2012 at 9:38 am Springlike weather has already settled in to much of the state, and that means it’s just a matter of time before sow bass begin initiating spawning activity. Caney Lake, Toledo Bend, the Atchafalaya Basin, Lake Cataouatche. The spawn is on the way.