News Breaker
Bull red action heats up on Grand Isle
Grand Isle anglers will be seeing red this month — but that’s a good thing if reeling in hard charging, drag-screaming bull reds is what you’re after.[…]
Year: 2017
News Breaker
Rolling in the reds
While waiting for speckled trout to finish their transition from offshore to inland waters in south central Louisiana, specifically the Dularge area, saltwater fishermen don’t sit idle and their boats don’t collect dust.[…]
Crappie/Bream
It’s a grand time for Grand Bayou
Tracking down some grand crappie fishing in west central Louisiana this time of year is easy. Just head for Coushatta and make the short ride south to Grand Bayou Reservoir. Since filling up in 1996, the 2,700-acre lake is best known for big bass, but it has just as many — or more — big crappie. […]
Freshwater Fishing
Drain hopping at Morgan City
At a time when the lower Spillway gets crowded as it settles to a highly fishable level in late August and September, a Morgan City bass outdoorsman gets away from the maddening crowd to a few hotspots that attract bass and other gamefish.[…]
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Keys to bow stand selection
Archery season is opening in many areas and fast approaching in others. Hopefully, most bowhunters know the tree stands they will hunt from.[…]
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Quicksilver Kick
“There are exceptions to everything we are going to tell you today and tomorrow.”[…]
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Highways to heaven
“I call them ‘highways’,” said the deeply tanned lower Lafourche Parish fishing guide.[…]
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Get ready, get set, go for teal! Part 2
Teal hunter Hunter Simmons of Mer Rouge shares his tips to get set and go after the early birds of duck hunting.[…]
Bass Fishing
Maximize your frog’s mat mayhem
It’s a double shot of adrenaline that widens the eyes, flares the jaws, red-lines the heart rate and elicits a broad spectrum of amazed responses; not all of which may be suitable for a family audience.[…]
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Cover: September 2017
Increase your odds of downing a big public lands buck by consulting the Sportsman’s WMA Forecast starting on page 42.[…]
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Crappie sniper
Even bass fanatics have to eat!
When we last left Dusty Anders, he was exercising his addiction to largemouth bass in Toledo Bend Reservoir. […]
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High-tech hog whacking
What’s that green glow?
It’s a beacon for bacon.[…]
Columns
Where have all the pompano gone?
It was January 1965 and the Louisiana Conservationist, the official voice of the Louisiana Wild Life (yes that’s the way it was spelled then — Wild Life, not Wildlife) and Fisheries Commission, led off with an article on Louisiana’s wonderful winter offshore fishery. […]
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2017-18 WMA Forecast
As thousands of resident and non-resident hunters get ready to hunt on the Wildlife Management Areas of Louisiana, one segment must be aware of a radical change from the norm.[…]
Bass Fishing
The sweet and sour of September
If summertime bass fishing like it has been extends very long into September, chances are good I will have all spinning rods on the deck of my bass boat until there is a definitive cool snap to chill the waters at Toledo Bend.[…]
Crappie/Bream
Crappie catch ensured —almost
Jerry Mitchell is in the insurance business in Alexandria and he will insure almost anything for you — including catching crappie in the Red River South this month. […]