
Features from December 2018
- 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.
- The days of rainy fronts, chilly temperatures and dreaded bluebird skies are upon us. Here's how to catch bass after winter cold fronts pass in Louisiana.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Some tips on how to fish the ledges in the Geoghegan Canal to catch wintertime speckled trout near Lake Pontchartrain this month.
- 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.
- 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.
- How to make any necessary adjustments and change up your game plan to have success during the second half of Louisiana’s deer season.

Columns - December 2018
- Waypoints in the Point aux Chien area of the Pointe-aux-Chenes Wildlife Management Area.
- December's best kayak fishing destinations.
- Seven female kayakers on an overnight outing and kayak trip from the launch in Point Aux Chenes.
- Here are some gift ideas for the outdoorsman sure to bring a smile on Christmas morning.
- The results of two major kayak tournaments recently held in Southeast Louisiana.
- These gifts will put a smile on any fly fisherman’s face.
- THe new “Code-Red” VibraWedge spinnerbait will help you put more bass in the boat.
- Here are recipes for Seafood Stew and Broiled Fish.
- Deer season is in full swing, and it’s time to decide whether to drop the hammer.
- How to correct mechanical wheel lean on your compound bow.
- Permit, the glamor fish of tropical flats fishing, are more common in Louisiana than most people realize.

Outdoor Updates - December 2018
- Vacation time well spent for …
- They say good things come in threes — and Britt Buller proved it during a wild stretch of hunting late last month in Jeff Davis Parish.
- It is a well-known fact that on the football field, LSU and Ole Miss are mortal enemies: Very little love is lost between the two state-line rivals. Although it may be difficult to imagine, on Oct. 4 a former Ole Miss quarterback passed up the chance to down a huge 14-point buck, and handed the honor over to a former LSU QB. That Ole Miss guy is Bob Lane - and the LSU fellow is his 59-year-old dad, Robert Lane.
- Capt. Eric Pellegrin was in the midst of a hot trout bite Saturday morning near Wine Island Pass out of Cocodrie when a redfish crashed the party.
- Vicki Husted has already killed a couple of state record books, and she downed a nice 11-pointer on Oct. 24 that stretched the tape to 150 inches.
- Friday, Oct. 26 was the last day of primitive firearms season in Area 2 — and Kenneth Miller took full advantage of the final hours of that season.
Field Notes - December 2018
- We’ve spent all season perched in stands overlooking food plots and other well-known grazing areas, waiting for deer to get their feed on.
Hot Spots - December 2018
- A guide to catching bass in December at Toledo Bend.
- Bayou D'Arbonne offers up some great slab crappie this time of year.
- Some truly prime winter fishing waters are accessed by three Chalmette area launches.
- Morgan City outdoorsman Bill McCarty said docks are definitely the ticket this month for slab sac-a-lait.
- Grand Bayou is full of big, broad-shouldered crappie. And this is a grand month of the year to catch them.
- There are two bayous in the northeast corner of Lake Mechant that year after year consistently give up speckled trout in December.
- The fishing is fantastic and there’s action to be found all over the inside waters of Delacroix Island.
- The Lake Pontchartrain estuary provides a lot of different types of fishing, and that can be super advantageous this time of year.
- What to do if you want to catch fish in Lafitte in the month of December.
- The keys to having success with speckled trout at Shell Beach this month.