Louisiana Sportsman

July 17, 2026

The author (third from right) and some friends caught their limits of vermilion snapper while fishing with Capt. Paul Guidroz in May.

Plan Beeliner

July 29, 2019 Todd Masson

Vermilion snapper, known as beeliners, make excellent table fare and don’t tear up your gear as much as red snapper or mangrove snapper do.[…]

Grand Isle trout slam continues

July 23, 2019 Rusty Tardo

For fifty years Mike White has fished Grand Isle, pursuing his passion not just to catch big speckled trout and bull reds.[…]

Cocodrie speckled smackdown

July 5, 2019 Rusty Tardo

Anglers in the Cocodrie area are enjoying the best speckled trout action they’ve seen in years. Capt. Tommy Pellegrin says the area is teeming with fish.[…]

Nick Terry shows off a 61/2-pound bass he caught May 31 while fishing in and around lily pads at Toledo Bend with John Dean. Lily pads should hold the key to getting bit in July, according to Dean.

Toledo Bend: Fish Lily pads for summer bass

July 1, 2019 John Dean

Since lily pads offer bass more cover than anything else in the lake, they should hold the key to getting bit in July at Toledo Bend.[…]

Vickie Venable of Terry, Miss., got this 6 ½-pound, 26-inch long speck on a live shrimp near Shell Beach.

Back to Shell Beach

June 27, 2019 Todd Masson

Some advice from Capt. Jacques Laboureur on where Shell Beach anglers are catching speckled trout and redfish despite the spreading fresh water.[…]

Zachary Dubois of Kaplan has been catching quality black crappie (sac-a-lait) at midlake in Toledo Bend.

Toledo Bend’s slab sac-a-lait smackdown

June 10, 2019 Chris Berzas

Sac-a-lait have transitioned to deeper structures along the submerged Sabine River channel. Here’s where and how to catch these freshwater fish.[…]

The minimum size for tripletail is 18 inches.

Cypremort Point tripletail

June 5, 2019 Don Shoopman

Rodeo winners Lannie Buteau and Paul Migues detail how they target tripletail and claim there’s one thing you must have to catch them.[…]

Trey Ledet, out on Toledo Bend with his dad, Eugene Ledet, holds a chunky bass caught while dead sticking a Zoom Super Fluke while fishing with John Dean over Easter weekend.

Rising water floods Toledo Bend’s bass cover

June 3, 2019 John Dean

April showers raised the water in Toledo Bend, providing more cover for bass as the spawn headed into its final stages after the full moon in April.[…]

Flounder should be in the marshes around Lake Charles through June.

Hot bite: Lake Charles flounder

June 3, 2019 Dora Lambert

Jason Lewis and John Muller have been targeting flounder in the Lake Charles system for a few years and they are more than willing to give a few tips.[…]

Paul Begnaud, left, and his father, Chester Begnaud, hold five bass that went 16.89 pounds on the first day of the Henderson Lake Dog Fight Classic in 2018.

Henderson Lake bass run is on!

May 20, 2019 Don Shoopman

Topwaters of every kind retrieved seductively at choice locations around Henderson Lake fuel the bass fishing passion of a Lafayette native.[…]

John Dean caught this 61/2-pounder on the next-to-last week of March on a Carolina-rigged Zoom Super Fluke at Toledo Bend.

Toledo Bend bass are turning to topwaters

May 15, 2019 John Dean

As the spawn works its way north to south on Toledo Bend in May, bream move up the same way to do their thing, which is key to getting on bass.[…]

Jeff Poe on a foggy day with a nice speckled trout.

How to get easy limits at Calcasieu Lake

May 15, 2019 Don Shoopman

If you aren’t catching speckled trout under the birds in May at Calcasieu Lake, you’ll want to be on the lower end of the lake system around reefs.[…]

Donovan Stoner, of Atlanta, La., shows off a couple of nice Black Lake bass. Stoner said May is a great month to target postspawn fish before water temperatures really ramp up and summer heat takes hold.

Black Lake perfect baits

May 14, 2019 Patrick Bonin

Donovan Stoner said he’d focus his attention on the multitude of cypress trees that cover Black Lake, and offered his Top 3 lures for Black Lake in May.[…]

Kendall Mullins shows off a stringer featuring a nice limit of flounder from a recent trip in marshes near Big Lake. If you can find a good cut leading into a marsh featuring a drop-off, that’s a great spot to target doormats.

Big Lake flounder run

May 9, 2019 Patrick Bonin

Mike Malone, president of the Elite Kayak Club, is a firm believer in Berkley Gulp’s chartreuse Swimming Mullet when he wants flounder at Big Lake.[…]

7 tips for May success at the MRGO rocks

May 7, 2019 Rusty Tardo

In the experience of Capt. Jacques “Jakamo” Laboureur, speckled trout season always starts up at the Rocks at the end of the MRGO.[…]

Canals around Lake Des Allemands and Bayou Gauche produce nice crappie in May and June.

Des Allemands: Crappie Psychic reveals a pattern that delivers in late spring

May 2, 2019 Joel Masson

For many anglers, sac-a-lait are seasonal fish. But for Clyde Folse, the owner of Crappie Psychic, sac-a-lait are a staple 12 months a year.[…]