Big Bass
Another blockbuster Saturday on Toledo Bend
Ryan Brunk, Tony Coburn and Lane Masters were three of five anglers that caught double-digit lunker bass at Toledo Bend on Feb. 18.[…]
Year: 2023
Field Reports
This technique loaded my livewell with crappie!
Marsh Man Masson looks forward all year to this season, when big slab crappie, or sac-a-lait, move up to the shallows to spawn.[…]
Columns
Venison stroganoff
This is an easy “two pot” meal, one for the venison stroganoff and one for the starch that can be prepared at home or at the camp.[…]
NEW PRODUCTS
Berkley Gulp! Surf Bytes Strips
Don’t worry with live bait; Berkley’s Gulp! Surf Bytes are all you need for a day of saltwater fishing.[…]
Field Reports
Catch and Cook: Hunting wild hogs with dogs
In this Outside the Levees video, Jared Serigné goes hog hunting with dogs with his friends from Speak Easy Hogging.[…]
Hunting Reports
Veteran duck hunt
A good friend and fellow veteran, Richard Russell, invited Jamie Yancey and his dog to partake in a flooded timber hunt on his property for the Veteran & Youth day on Feb. 4. “It was
Columns
Lasting results on the outdoors
However you do it, make a plan to pass along the life-long outdoor pleasures you’ve had in our Sportsman’s Paradise.[…]
Bass Class
ULM’s Pearce uses his favorite bait to stay in the winner’s circle
John Pearce has proved using the drop shot is the most versatile finesse fishing method by winning AOY as a co-angler on the ULM Fishing Team.[…]
Fishing
New artificial reefs will enhance recreational fishing in Kincaid Lake
LDWF biologists, in partnership with the U.S. Forest Service, have deployed 42 new artificial reefs in Kincaid Lake, near Alexandria.[…]
News Breaker
Hammond resident cited for littering violations in St. John Parish
LDWF enforcement agents cited a Hammond woman for alleged littering and criminal mischief violations in St. John Parish on Feb. 11.[…]
News Breaker
Agents cite Texas man for commercial fishing violations
LDWF enforcement agents cited a Texas man for alleged commercial fishing violations in Cameron and East Baton Rouge parishes.[…]
Field Reports
How to find clean water for specks in the dead of winter
Chas Champagne shares a great technique to put fish in the boat at Lake Pontchartrain during the toughest months of the year.[…]
Hunting Reports
Coll Sledge’s limit of wood ducks
Coll Sledge and his German Shorthaired Pointer, Gus, picked up a quick limit of wood ducks before school started one morning this season in the Tangipahoa River swamp. Coll, 12, is a sixth grader at
Hunting Reports
Owen Weimer’s first specklebelly
Owen Weimer of Thibodaux with first specklebelly shot at the Wax Dec. 26, 2022.
Events & Announcements
The 2023 Louisiana Sportsman Show & Festival
The 43rd annual Louisiana Sportsman Show and Festival will be held March 17-19 at the Lamar-Dixon Expo Center in Gonzales.[…]
Bass Fishing
Tyler Rivet claims first Bassmaster Elite Series victory at Lake Okeechobee
Tyler Rivet of Raceland had the location and game plan to win the SiteOne Bassmaster Elite at Lake Okeechobee.[…]