Occasionally, you awaken to one of those special mornings when you have a compelling urge to hook up the boat and head for the lake. It’s a day when everything just feels right. Your confidence level is elevated because you sense that today, it’s going to happen.
I recall one of those mornings a couple of springs ago. An early-spring front had blown through three days prior, chasing the bass from the shallows.[…]
The Holy Grail of bass fishing can be found in North Louisiana. Didn’t know there was a Holy Grail of bass fishing, much less that it could be found in your own back yard?[…]
You step off the LAB aircraft after a 4 1/2-hour flight from Miami to Manaus, and are surrounded with fishermen — the long the short and the tall, all wearing hats that proclaim their quarry. They’re here for tucunare’— the fabulous peacock bass of the Amazon basin.[…]
Vapor clouds billowed with every breath as the anglers worked their way past a bridge, working the pilings that normally held bass.[…]
A Louisiana favorite eagerly meets the challenge of a demanding artificial lure market with a new look for an old friend of spinnerbait aficiandos inside and outside the Sportsman’s Paradise.[…]
Bass can run but they can’t hide from a Teche area angler who stays on the water most of his waking hours.[…]
The lure plopped lightly into the water next to some flooded brush, slowly falling toward the bottom.[…]
There is a hidden bass-fishing treasure in the Atchafalaya Basin that few know about and even fewer dare to venture.[…]
On Monday, April 26, a new sound will be added to the quiet symphony of the marsh inside Lacassine Pool at Lacassine National Wildlife Refuge.[…]
The Ouachita River backwater was littered with a maze of live cypress and detritus from trees long since fallen.[…]
Think the bass spawn is over? Think again. River fish are just hitting their stride.[…]
Floridians have Lake Okeechobee. Georgians have Lake Seminole. Alabamians have Lake Eufaula.[…]
If the drought defined the late 1990s, it looks like a dramatic recovery in the state’s bass fisheries will be the defining factor of the early 2000s.[…]
Louisiana waters are some of the most diverse in all of North America. The entire southeastern U.S. ecosystem has been heralded for its diversity of life, even to the point of being called an “evolutionary laboratory.” Thousands of fish, insects, amphibians, vegetation and mammalian species rely on it and call it home.[…]
Brent Bonadona remembers the halcyon days before Hurricane Andrew, when fishing in the Atchafalaya Basin was incredible.[…]
Never go against the family.
The only thing keeping me from heeding that menacing advice is that this family isn’t blood.[…]