Bass Fishing
Boondoggle Bassin’
It’s hard to imagine that the Florida Parishes don’t have some type of freshwater reservoir to attract anglers.[…]
Bass Fishing
Bass Fishing
Finger on the Pulse
Kelli Batten lives in West Monroe, and she wants to learn how to catch bass well enough to be able to fish tournaments in the future.[…]
Bass Fishing
Cover: April 2008-Bass
Louisiana bass come to jerkbaits like kids to pizza.[…]
Bass Fishing
Jazzed Up Jerkbaits
Had it not been for missing roe estimated to be 1 1/2 to 1 3/4 pounds, Wisconsin resident Ed Stellner would have landed a new state-record largemouth bass back in February of 2000.[…]
Bass Fishing
Beat the Classic pros by 10 months
I’m really excited because BASS announced that the next three Bassmaster Classics will be held on lakes close to my home that I know and love to fish.[…]
Bass Fishing
Bass biting at Pearl River canals
The whipping winds have kept many coastal anglers at home wondering what could be the last several days. In the meantime, freshwater fishing has been productive and offers an escape from the blustery weather.[…]
Bass Fishing
Bass Ackwards
Several years ago, during a Louisiana Bass Federation State Tournament on Lake D’Arbonne in Farmerville, I was paired up with an angler who had some crazy ideas.[…]
Bass Fishing
Q is for Quintana
As a boy, perhaps, 7 or 8 years old, I used to sit with my elbows on the table with my face in my hands staring at the adults playing the board game “Scrabble.”[…]
Bass Fishing
Cover: March 2008-Bass
Louisiana’s bass seem to be spawning deeper than ever before, which opens opportunities for anglers.[…]
Bass Fishing
State of the State
Ah, the first hint of spring, whenever it comes in the next month or two, finds you with fingers trembling to tie on your favorite artificial lure with a resolve to cast and catch a “trophy” bass at a body of water somewhere in Louisiana.[…]
Bass Fishing
Caney bass biting tail spinners
Just one short week ago, bass were already starting to show up in the backs of the five creek arms on the north side of Caney Lake. Several cold nights coupled with some cold rain pushed them back out, though.[…]
Bass Fishing
Cover: February 2008
Bass pro Jason Pittman caught this lunker on the Tchefuncte River, but our team of experts picked other water bodies as the most likely to deliver trophies this spring.[…]
Bass Fishing
Designer Bass Fishing
I remember 8th grade like it was yesterday. The only problem is there are a lot of things about 8th grade that I don’t want to remember.[…]
Bass Fishing
Doomed!
Bass once made up much of my family’s diet from the 1960s until the mid-1980s. If you go back to the history of catch and release, you’ll see that Ray Scott, founder of B.A.S.S., originally initiated this program, since he’d received so much criticism in the early days of B.A.S.S about his tournament anglers catching and killing large numbers of big bass.[…]
Bass Fishing
Fish the lake no one seems to love
I don’t know why so few anglers seem to love Northeast Louisiana’s Poverty Point. It’s loaded with trophy-sized Florida-strain bass, it’s managed for trophy bass and although crappie fishermen love it, many bass fishermen never have heard of it.[…]
Bass Fishing
Knocking Off Limits
It was obvious the day was going to get wet as Toledo Bend guide Glen Freeman pulled his boat away from the landing. A thick bank of dark clouds was on the northern horizon, evidence of an impending cold front.[…]