Louisiana Sportsman

September 2, 2026

Cliff “The Cajun Baby” Crochet smiles as he holds a bass he caught on a double-bladed Santone spinnerbait in the Atchafalaya Basin.

Meet Cajun Baby’s favorite bass lures

September 4, 2019 Don Shoopman

Cliff “The Cajun Baby” Crochet plans to catch and release plenty of bass when he gets the opportunity to fish the Atchafalaya Basin with these lures.[…]

Guide Justin Bowles said redfish of all sizes have been biting this summer in Biloxi Marsh, and there’s no sign of a change coming.

Biloxi marsh redfish have never quit biting, guide says

August 30, 2019 Joel Masson

The Lake Pontchartrain Basin has had quite a unique year, but that’s fine with Capt. Justin Bowles, who targets September redfish in the Biloxi Marsh.[…]

Crappie bite is exploding in Atchafalaya Basin

August 28, 2019 Anthony Taylor

Anglers are destroying the crappie on the spillway side of the Atchafalaya Basin right now according to pro crappie angler Bradley Felder and Clyde Folse.[…]

Capt. Davey Miles with Cajun Fishing Adventures shows off a nice redfish just minutes before a bad storm forced him to leave Breton Island last Friday. The good news is the Mississippi River has finally fallen to more normal late-summer levels, which should mean solid fishing this fall downriver.

Plummeting Mississippi River setting up for solid fall fishing

August 22, 2019 Patrick Bonin

According to Capt. Davey Miles, a guide with Cajun Fishing Adventures in Buras, the plummeting Mississippi River is bringing in more bait and more fish.[…]

Toledo Bend: It’s right at night

August 12, 2019 John Dean

Toledo Bend has always been a really good night fishing lake. Last August was awesome and it should be great again this year.[…]

Ouachita on the fall, crappie on the rise

July 31, 2019 Kinny Haddox

It’s taken a bit longer this year for the Ouachita River system to get right, but it’s getting there now. And the crappie bite is right behind.[…]

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.[…]