Bass Fishing
Night Bite
The towering thunderheads to the south were beginning to intermittently glow a dazzling bright orange color reminiscent of a carpet of bombs exploding in the wake of a passing B-52 Bomber. […]
Bass Fishing
Bass Fishing
Delta Dominance
Venice and the Bassmaster Classic just haven’t mixed.[…]
Bass Fishing
New crankbaits stay in strike zone
Hitting the strike zone is what it’s all about in bass fishing, whether an angler is working cypress trees and knees in less than 3 feet of water or probing ridges or points in 10 feet of water or deeper.[…]
Bass Fishing
Classic Concentration
Louisiana bass anglers haven’t had a native son to cheer for during the Bassmasters Classic since 1999, when Baton Rouge’s Rodney Wagley earned a berth in the first New Orleans Classic.[…]
Bass Fishing
Yesterday’s Trophies
“Lunker bass fever” excitement has faded since the glory years of the 1990s in Louisiana.[…]
Bass Fishing
Volume 23 • No. 4 • April 2003
NORTH COVER: If you’re not catching bass, is it because they’re not there or because you just can’t get them to bite? We paired an accomplished angler with a
shock-boat to find out.[…]
Bass Fishing
Shocking Truth about Bass
It didn’t take five minutes to get the first bite.
The jig was pitched to a cypress tree in the dead-end canal, and the angler’s line moved about 6 inches to the side.[…]
Bass Fishing
Sashay of the Senko
I picked up the phone and politely said hello. The caller didn’t have time for such pleasantries. Instead, he began panting something into the phone.[…]
Bass Fishing
Mann’s has married feathers, plastics
There’s a good chance a new artificial lure will tickle your fancy this month — if it hasn’t already.[…]
Bass Fishing
Creek Bound
A shiver coursed through my body as I stowed my gear in the cabin at Wildwood Resort, and the words of my editor sounded softly in the corners of my mind as I tightened my jacket.[…]
Bass Fishing
Locks, Tops and Barrels
Few Red River bass tournaments held out of Alexandria are won with fish landed in Pool 2.[…]
Bass Fishing
Shroud of Mystery
Caddo Lake, a 26,800-acre unspoiled treasure shared equally by Texas and Louisiana, has been called “the most beautiful lake in America” as well as “the best big-bass secret in the South.”[…]
Bass Fishing
Rivers of Bass
Roger Boler’s lure split the water beside the cypress tree soundlessly, barely making a ripple.[…]
Bass Fishing
Bass Lake Report Card
Considering that successful bass fishermen do their homework before going on the water, how about subjecting the many bass fisheries in Louisiana to academic standards of their own for 2003?[…]
Bass Fishing
Bass find new soft plastics Yum-my
Tube jigs, those nondescript-looking soft plastics that have taken bass fishing by storm, aren’t the same any longer after what one manufacturer has done. The tube jig and other soft plastics the manufacturer is putting out smell.[…]
Bass Fishing
Trappin’ Trees
Louisiana and the number ranking in a national list, the Saints and the playoffs, boiled crawfish and milk — it doesn’t take a genius to figure out that these things just don’t go together.
Yeah, you may come across a dubious list that has Louisiana ranked at the top of some bad-news category. The Saints may even make the playoffs a couple of times every 30 years or so, and you may see a child having to drink milk while eating boiled crawfish. But other than that, never the two shall meet.
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