Bass Fishing
Top 5 tactics to catch more Basin bass
The Atchafalaya River was high most of the year, and bass-fishing successes were hit and miss.[…]
Month: September 2014
Columns
Trout Masters excerpt: Pursuing big specks with live croakers
Pursuing trophy trout can be a slow, pain-staking process – but Charlie Lieux would rather catch five big fish than 25 2- or 3-pounders.[…]
Bass Fishing
Sulphur firefighter catches 11.41-pounder at Toledo Bend
Daniel Burnett Jr. is used to dealing with plenty of heat, but not the kind that was coming from his camper’s air conditioner earlier this month near Toledo Bend.[…]
News Breaker
Teal season opener a mixed bag
Louisiana’s opening weekend of teal season played out a lot like a beginner’s class in real estate basics: It all boiled down to location, location, location.[…]
Deer Hunting
Hunting camp work day ends with rattlesnake bite
On Saturday, Dana Sanders was just doing what many of us will be doing for the next few weekends — preparing for the 2014 hunting season by clipping limbs to clear a shooting lane.[…]
Bass Fishing
The Terminator Weedless Football Jig
On a hot July day in Knoxville, Tenn., Ott DeFoe was sorting and arranging his fishing tackle while preparing to go fish Bassmaster tournaments at Lake Champlain and the Deleware River.[…]
News Breaker
Recent duck population increases masking detrimental wetlands losses
While many duck species populations are at or near historic levels now, officials are concerned that continued loss of wetlands in the U.S. Prairie Pothole Region, combined with the inevitable return of dryer weather there, will have serious implications for the future.[…]
Columns
Hail to the feral hog
Back in July our nation celebrated its 238th birthday. No doubt many of you celebrated Independence Day watching a traditional fireworks display; you saw the rocket’s red glare and the bombs bursting in air, and hopefully avoided the popping of a firecracker in your hand.[…]
Sportsman TV Episodes
Hackney Brake Experience
The Honey Brake Lodge in Jonesville, LA has been crowned as the South’s finest duck hunting lodge with amenities to die for and first class waterfowl hunting at its doorstep.[…]
News Breaker
LDWF’s 2014 September teal survey third-lowest on record
The good news is the aerial survey completed this week by the Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries revealed about 101,000 blue-winged teal had already arrived in advance of opening day this Saturday, an increase of about 51,000 birds compared to last year’s record-breaking low count. […]
News Breaker
More than 100 hunters cited for dove-related violations opening weekend
Enforcement agents with the Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries issued 101 citations across the state during the opening weekend of dove season.[…]
News Breaker
Vid: Bow hunter shoots flying doves
Think you’re a pretty good wing shot? A real danger to anything that flies? Just can’t miss when you shoulder your trusty 12-gauge?[…]
Columns
Lessons from a legend
One of the most-impressive fishing seminars I’ve ever seen took place 10 years ago in Houston inside the George Brown Exhibition Center.[…]
Columns
Trout Masters excerpt: Big trout at Big Lake
Jeff and Mary Poe are veteran Big Lake speckled trout anglers.[…]
Ask Captain Paul
Old oil structures in Tiger Shoal
Dear Capt. Paul:
I am told that there were several oil platforms, old well heads and/or other oil-field sites within the Tiger Shoal area that have been removed in years past.[…]
Bass Fishing
2015 Bassmaster Elite Series schedule revealed
The Sabine River will kick off the 10th anniversary season of the Bassmaster Elite Series in 2015.[…]