Features from March 2024
Kenny Kavanaugh of Farmerville has a love for fishing, especially for big crappie, and he shares that love with his dog, Ghost.
The Highway 1 bridges leading into Grand Isle offer fantastic opportunities for shore-bound anglers to catch some amazing fish.
Three lures that every angler should have rigged and ready for March bass: Alabama Rigs, swimbaits and jerkbaits.
CJ Mayeux of Pearl River knows a thing or two about catching crawfish. He runs pillow traps in the sloughs of the Honey Island Swamp.
This spring teal study and banding monitors low and high pathogenic avian influenza diseases, also known as bird flu.
Toledo Bend is a nationally known hot spot for bass anglers around the country; however, it is equally as popular among crappie anglers.
Columns - March 2024
- Poutine typically features fries, cheese curds, and gravy. In this version of poutine, add a Cajun twist by using nutria.
- Buying a new boat is a big deal. Focus on what you need, what you can afford, comfort and safety and what makes you happy.
- Spending a day fishing for bass on the pond with a handful of lures is a great way to spend a day in March.
- Training and keeping your hunting dog sharp is a year-round obligation. Join a retriever club to do that and make them better.
- When you want to take your kayak fishing to the next level, get some friends together and plan a mothership offshore trip.
- Bass angler Ben South of Pineville knows how effective The Hammer Trap can be on his “home lakes” — Toledo Bend and Lake Sam Rayburn.
- The reason catching pogies has become such a hot-button item is we have more recreational fishermen than we had 40 years ago.
Outdoor Updates - March 2024
- There’s no better place to check out the latest hunting and fishing gadgets than the 2024 Louisiana Sportsman Show in Baton Rouge.
- Glynn Harris’ new book, ‘Bamboozled by a Bobcat: A Louisiana Boy’s Dirt Road Recollections’ is a story of Glynn’s life growing up.
- John Jones of Franklinton shot a leucistic hen gadwall, a bird as rare as perhaps 1 in 30,000, on Dec. 30, 2023.
- Commercial menhaden fisheries will now have to adhere to a half-mile buffer on the Louisiana coast for the 2024 season.
- The New Orleans City Park Big Bass Rodeo celebrates its 75th anniversary milestone on Saturday, March 23, 2024.
- Joshua Brevelle of Effie downed this beautiful 148 5/8-inch buck nicknamed “Porkchop” on Dec. 26 in Winn Parish.
- Terry Brack caught a 15-pound largemouth bass while fishing a LiveTarget Erratic Shiner on the Sabine River.
- Jeff Perot of Ruston was trying to photograph deer in Richland Parish on Dec. 28 when he found a buck's rack with 244 5/8 inches of mass.
- Toledo Bend has started giving up lunker bass this month. Four of them wound up being double-digit beasts.
- Doug Reynolds of Florien was fishing on Feb. 14 in front of his home on Toledo Bend when he landed a 13.67-pound bass.
- Hinton Carroll, 11, of West Monroe hooked an 11.79-pound lunker bass while fishing at Toledo Bend on Jan. 27.
Hot Spots - March 2024
- We know when March rolls around there will be more water at Toledo Bend, enough water to give us a chance to go bush fishing for bass.
- Laurette Mequet of Cecilia, who has pulled beaucoup sac-a-lait out of Henderson Lake, knows where she’ll target sac-a-lait in April.
- Lake D’Arbonne boasts one of the state’s most abundant populations of quality crappie. Brad Black turns it into his playground.
- According to Capt. Charlie Thomason, large speckled trout are the norm when throwing hard-plastic lures in Hopedale this month.
Field Notes - March 2024
- Sportsmen can enjoy hunting and fishing in the Atchafalaya Basin at the Attakapas Island, Thistlethwaite and Sherburne WMAs.
- Benton High School sophomore Madison Hammersla started off this year on target at the 2024 Archery in Louisiana Schools North Regional.
- Give your fishing rods a new home by building a true custom rod rack, which protects and showcases those works of art.
- Kansas uses a lottery system. While the season is over this year, it’s time to start that procedure if you want to hunt for deer in Kansas.