Features
Fly fishing tips and tactics
How to successfully fly fish for speckled trout in the deep holes off Highway 1 near Ground Isle. Use these tips and tactics, no matter how you fish.[…]
Year: 2018
Deer Hunting
Prep for success in the second half of deer season
How to make any necessary adjustments and change up your game plan to have success during the second half of Louisiana’s deer season.[…]
Ducks
Hunting flooded timber for ducks in Louisiana
Although it’s not as prevalent as it once was, flooded timber still provides Louisiana’s hunters with plenty of opportunities to fill their straps.[…]
Field Notes
Add a topwater ‘shock absorber’
How to create a shock absorber between the main braid and your lures.[…]
Bass Fishing
Bayou Black bass blast
These bass anglers spend every available minute together on the water, and they know there’s no place better for numbers of bites than Bayou Black.[…]
Ducks
How to set up your duck decoys
Dekes are probably the most important controllable factor for the average hunter. Here’s how to set ‘em up — so you can shoot ‘em down.[…]
Crappie/Bream
Crushing cold water crappie
Cooler water means more active fish — and with the crappie gathering up for prespawn feeding, you can bet that schooling competition will motivate the fish to eat whatever they can catch.[…]
Ducks
Seven keys to duck hunting success
Decoy rules from Creighton Ward. […]
Deer Hunting
Creating mock scrapes to hunt white-tail deer
Creating mock scrapes is a great way to provoke a big buck into shooting range — here’s how to get it done and put a big deer into your crosshairs.[…]
Deer Hunting
Church Point business bottles fresh doe-in-heat urine
Anglers would be the first to tell you that fresh is best. I mean, who wants to eat freezer-burned speckled trout fillets a year after they were caught?[…]
Features
How to catch wintertime speckled trout in the Geoghegan Canal
Some tips on how to fish the ledges in the Geoghegan Canal to catch wintertime speckled trout near Lake Pontchartrain this month.[…]
Bass Fishing
Fish Lake Bruin like a pro
One of the most fascinating things weekend bass tournament fishermen can witness is professional anglers picking apart their local lakes when major tournaments roll into town.
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Bass Fishing
Top 3 wintertime bass baits
Nothing like topwater frog explosions Bassmaster Elite Series pro Keith Combs has to put fish in the boat year round, but he experiences what every other angler does during the summer: Tough fishing, when five
Speckled Trout
The ‘best month of the year’ for Dularge trout fishing
No twitch, just slow steady retrieve is key for Dularge trout Mother Nature has been a true hag this year, baking South Louisiana with scalding temperatures well into October. But November ushers in what Dularge
Deer Hunting
Follow this advice to see more deer
While sitting in my ground blind last season watching 15 deer second-lining down the lane I was hunting, I was struck by deer movement — and how it’s really the only factor that matters.[…]
Deer Hunting
Cashing in on big bucks
Pam Streeter works in the banking business, and she plays in the woods. But she’ll tell you the same principles for making “big bucks” apply in both worlds.[…]