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Brian Epstein with a nice Delacroix speck.

Ten minute trout: Delacroix

February 23, 2019 Rusty Tardo

Three Delacroix lakes, all a mere 10 minutes from the dock, that you should focus on for February speckled trout.[…]

Rusty Critselous and Hudson Brister from Ruston had a great day fishing out of Cocodrie on Feb. 17.

Fish bite turns on in Cocodrie

February 21, 2019 Ann Taylor

Fishing guide Tommy Pellegrin with Custom Charters has been slamming the speckled trout, black drum, redfish and sheepshead right now in the Terrebonne Bay area. […]

Ten minute trout: Chalmette

February 20, 2019 Rusty Tardo

A 10-minute run from the dock to find speckled trout is a definite possibility this month at Chalmette.[…]

Capt. Marty LaCoste says the fish can roam the entire lake, but his favorite areas include the west and south sides.

Dularge offers close trout action

February 19, 2019 Joel Masson

A convenient and easy area to target speckled trout this month is Dularge’s Lake DeCade.[…]

Try throwing big suspending baits such as Corky’s and Mirrodines for big fish near the bank.

Turner’s Bay reef is hot spot on Big Lake

February 19, 2019 Patrick Bonin

Capt. Nick Poe didn’t hesitate when asked about a wintertime speckled trout location on Big Lake within a short ride of the boat launch.[…]

Mike “Pickle” Fontenot of Ville Platte holds one of the hawgs he has caught fishing Chicot Lake.

It’s hammer time on Chicot Lake

February 17, 2019 Don Shoopman

Chicot Lake’s bass — big and bigger — are ripe for the picking when the second month of the year rolls around.[…]

Chunky largemouth bass like these are why Jeff Glover is high on Caney Lake’s February bass prospects.

New dynamics kick in at Caney Lake

February 14, 2019 Kinny Haddox

Chunky largemouth bass like these are why Jeff Glover is high on Caney Lake’s February bass prospects. […]

Tyler Hatrel, right, and Keaton Biggs pose with a nice wahoo they reeled in earlier this year while trolling shaky baits south of Fourchon.

Wahoo bite on fire out of Fourchon

February 12, 2019 Patrick Bonin

Tyler Hatrel and his buddies have been mopping up on wahoo out of Fourchon.[…]

Sonny Brignac caught this speckled trout fishing a very foggy February day with Lacoste. Shrimp Creole Matrix Shad under a cork was the top producer on that day.

Guide reveals fishing was brutal on Lake Mechant in February — brutal for the fish that is!

February 12, 2019 Rusty Tardo

Here are 4 rules Capt. Marty Lacoste with Absolute Fishing Charters follows to put his customers on huge schools of speckled trout in March and April.[…]

In addition to good numbers, Saline-Larto is producing more and more big crappie like these.

Saline-Larto is a crappie hotspot

February 12, 2019 Kinny Haddox

In addition to good numbers, Saline-Larto is producing more and more big crappie.[…]

Author Joel Masson shows off a sac-a-lait he caught from a cut off the Tchefuncte last spring.

Find this pattern for Tchefuncte River sac-a-lait

February 11, 2019 Joel Masson

There’s no better tasting fish than sac-a-lait, and this month, the Tchefuncte River is typically full of them.[…]

Catching fish despite a cold and windy day in Delacroix

February 8, 2019 Gina Rivere

Johnny Schmidt, an avid fisherman from Covington, scored big with redfish in a bay south of Oak River in the Delacroix marsh.[…]

High water conditions at Toledo Bend

February 7, 2019 John Dean

Sight fishermen are licking their chops to get at bedding bass early in February at Toledo Bend.[…]

D’Arbonne bridges are crappie magnets

January 27, 2019 louisianasportsman

There are three ‘magnetic’ bridges across Lake D’Arbonne: Their forces draw both crappie — and crappie fishermen — in bunches this time of year.[…]

Jeff Bruhl likes to throw jerkbaits for January prespawners in the Tchefuncte River.

Prespawn Tchefuncte bass

January 21, 2019 Joel Masson

The winter is a fantastic time to throw jerkbaits and twitchbaits in the Tchefuncte River while hunting down prespawn bass.[…]

Specks have been somewhat hit or miss, but redfish action so far this winter has been fantastic out of Dularge.

Seeking redfish in Dularge

January 20, 2019 Don Shoopman

Marshes north of two popular lakes in the Dularge area have been giving up redfish consistently for several months, and that shouldn’t stop in January.[…]