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Toledo Bend summertime Slab City
May signals the beginning of the Toledo Bend slab-a-thon celebration.[…]
Year: 2017
Bass Fishing
Proper channels
More than 10 years ago, when I used to live in West Monroe, my local tournament partner Sid Havard and I used to look forward to May every year.[…]
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Deep thoughts for springtime Delacroix specks
According to Larry Frey, taking a page from your wintertime playbook can pay big dividends for speckled trout fishermen in May.[…]
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Hog Wars
The big guy sat down fluidly and easily in the ground blind with his Weatherby Accumark Custom rifle over his knees.[…]
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Search and destroy
Capt. Lane Zimmer’s text message was crystal clear.
“… left them biting yesterday,” the message read.
I wasn’t sure what happened between yesterday and this morning, but Lane’s spot that was so productive just 24 hours before only gave up two trout.
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Bass Fishing
Fool the Fry Guarders
It’s like girls night out for new mama bass and dads are watching the kids. That’s basically the deal with a popular spring pattern we know as “fry guarders” — male bass round up recently hatched babies (fry) and keep constant watch for a host of predators from bluegill, to crappie to other bass.[…]
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Buras Tag Team
The weather looked lousy as Creighton Ward, part owner and first captain of Southern Exposure Inland Fishing Charters, launched his boat from an obscure launch just north of the old Buras Auditorium into the Mississippi River. […]
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Boudreaux, Thibodeaux, I dunno
Usually when a hostess calls for “Jones, party of…” a dozen different people named Jones stand in unison. Not on the bayou. I haven’t met another Jones yet. But I have met a Thibodaux (heck, I live there, too), Boudreaux and a passel of Zeringues. Seriously.[…]
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Cover: May 2017
When the trout aren’t cooperating, you might just need on stay on the big motor and cover more water.[…]
Field Notes
If you tag a gobbler, fan him out
A tom turkey carries with him three body parts that most hunters consider trophies in the same realm that a whitetail buck carries an 8-point rack — worth keeping around to remember him by.[…]
Inshore Fishing
Watch the tide to find trout
With buckets and buckets of rain falling in the region April 2, some saltwater fishermen who regularly fish Calcasieu Lake expected the upper end to freshen up considerably and, as a result, work their way to the southwest corner of the lake to catch speckled trout at Nine Mile Cut and Washout.[…]
Bass Fishing
Don’t miss a May trip to Toledo Bend
Bragging-sized bass are storming the beaches, as they say, as I write this Toledo Bend piece the last day of March.[…]
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Take your pick: Exotic or slick
Wilmer and Betsy Mills live in a rambling, early 20th century Southern farm home that breathes history from every board of which it was built.[…]
Inshore Fishing
Legislation introduced to prohibit oyster dredging on Big Lake
A bill has been introduced in the Louisiana Legislature that would prohibit dredging for oysters on Big Lake, which according to Coastal Conservation Association Louisiana has seen both its oyster population and vertical reef structure decline since the mid-2000s when scrapers were first permitted as an allowable harvest method.[…]
Field Notes
The best springtime trout tactic
Speckled trout are invading inshore waters across the coast, and you can definitely build limits by drifting open-water bays. However, there’s a better way to fill your box with specks — but this tactic will only last a few more weeks.[…]
Fishing
T-Kip Takes Over
With Hackney out for this episode, we handed the reigns over to our buddy Kip Plaisance. He did a fine job and the fish co-operated too.[…]