Tammy Mong has caught lots of big bass at Toledo Bend — including an 11.24-pound monster — but a 3-pounder had her jumping for joy Friday during the first day of competition at the Sealy Outdoor Big Bass Splash.[…]
With the dog days of summer looming, heat and humidity are about to make life pretty miserable for everyone for at least the next four months.[…]
No matter how experienced an angler you might be, eventually you’ll probably run afoul of a hook or two while out on the water. […]
Historically, poppers have been one of the most productive baits for fry guarders because you can zip them into tight spots, make use of even a short retrieve lane and create the kind of threatening presentation that’ll send papa reaching for the 12-gauge.[…]
There’s a wide area east and south of Morgan City where the bassin’ action can be fast and furious in May.[…]
Paul Keith isn’t sure whether an earthquake back in the early 1800s or a logjam on the Red River backed up water into the lowlands of north Caddo Parish to form Caddo Lake.[…]
More than 10 years ago, when I used to live in West Monroe, my local tournament partner Sid Havard and I used to look forward to May every year.[…]
It’s like girls night out for new mama bass and dads are watching the kids. That’s basically the deal with a popular spring pattern we know as “fry guarders” — male bass round up recently hatched babies (fry) and keep constant watch for a host of predators from bluegill, to crappie to other bass.[…]
Bragging-sized bass are storming the beaches, as they say, as I write this Toledo Bend piece the last day of March.[…]
Beverly Rogers Brister of Farmerville has a fish story that’s even bigger than the bass she caught on Lake D’Arbonne Tuesday — and that makes it a mighty good one. […]
Bass likely will still be spawning in many of the waters across the state this month, and that adds the element of sight to bass fishing like no other time of year.[…]
The old saying says, ‘The third time is the charm.’
And that was definitely the case Monday for Orange’s Jason Courvillle, who incredibly scored his third Toledo Bend lunker bass over 10 pounds — since February. […]
When Matt Campbell set the hook on a nice bass in San Miguel last month on Toledo Bend, he was thinking he had a solid 4-pounder on the line.[…]
Senkos and other soft-plastic stick baits comprise one of the most versatile lure categories and certainly one to keep handy during April.[…]
Would you like to get Sontus Mitchell’s top tips for catching lunker largemouths on five popular North Louisiana lakes and rivers?[…]
Sontus Mitchell has a big 20-foot Triton fiberglass bass rig with plenty of storage compartments. Good thing: He’s armed like a big-bass SWAT team member, with bags of fishing tricks stowed here and there in every corner of the rig.[…]