Louisiana Sportsman

September 2, 2026

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.[…]

Bank angler limits out on speckled trout

April 15, 2019 Brian Cope

Reggie Legendre of Lafourche has been catching plenty of limits of speckled trout between Golden Meadow and Grand Isle recently by fishing from the bank with just a few pieces of tackle.[…]

John Godwin with a slab crappie from Lake D’Arbonne on “hump day.”

It’s hump day on D’Arbonne

April 9, 2019 Kinny Haddox

The keys to catching crappie from Lake D’Arbonne at Farmerville in April.[…]

Five Lake Bruin bass like this will win any tournament or make any weekend angler happy.

Lake Bruin bass bite is brewin’

April 5, 2019 Kinny Haddox

The good thing about the bass bite right now is that the fish are in a post-spawn pattern and they are active in the shallow water of Lake Bruin.[…]

Delacroix’s high river reds

April 5, 2019 Sammy Romano

Delacroix has become the unofficial redfish capital of Louisiana. Its fertile marsh is teeming with hungry redfish, and at times fishing for them can almost seem too easy.[…]

Cayden Meche of Duson, who loves to fish and hunt, shows off two “big hammers” he caught at Henderson Lake.

9 Henderson hotspots

April 4, 2019 Don Shoopman

Here’s a list of nine hotspots for April sac-a-lait hand-picked by one of the most experienced anglers on Henderson Lake.[…]

This angler holds a 3-pound-plus bass he caught on a spinnerbait while fishing with Dean the last week of February at Toledo Bend. They were fishing in Torro Bay.

Expect bass to be at the height of their spawn at Toledo Bend

April 3, 2019 John Dean

John Dean is maintaining a positive attitude and looking forward to late March and April to restore the order to bass fishing on Toledo Bend.[…]

After last winter’s freezes and some tough trout fishing in 2018, Capt. Ronnie Lisotta has great expectations for solid specks like this one this spring.

Pointe-aux-Chenes trout cranking up

April 1, 2019 Patrick Bonin

Guide reveals top 3 areas to fish With the relatively warm, wet, dreary winter Louisiana has experienced so far this year, Capt. Ronnie Lisotta is expecting some serious speckled trout action this spring — and

After some advice from John Dean, Ralph Daigle cast around hay grass in 5-foot depth and caught this lunker on a Carolina-rigged black super fluke in Housen Bay.

High water has Toledo Bend on

March 6, 2019 John Dean

Lots of shallow bass, headed to the spawn, should make March bass fishing great at Toledo Bend.[…]

Redfish between 18 and 30 pounds are regular catches this month around the mouth of Grand Bayou du Large.

Battle bayou bulls

March 4, 2019 Don Shoopman

If you want to do battle with bull reds and the bull drum that also bite in the same locations, several areas at Grand Bayou Dularge offer the opportunity in March.[…]

Zachary Brazda of Arnaudville caught a 9.4-pound beauty, while fishing a Carencro Bass Club tournament.

Lake Fausse Pointe Borrow pit hawgs

February 25, 2019 Don Shoopman

More and more big bass are coming from the borrow pits along the West Atchafalaya Basin Protection Levee from Lake Fausse Pointe State Park south along what is locally known as the Borrow Pit Canal.[…]