Louisiana Sportsman

September 6, 2026

Craig Bean was on a fishing trip at Toledo Bend with his buddy, Kenny Bailey, on Jan. 15 when he landed an 11.66-pound largemouth bass.[…]

Registration is now available for the 76th Annual Big Bass Fishing Rodeo and Fishtival at New Orleans City Park on Saturday, March 29, 2025! […]

The new Mini Hammer-Trap from Bill Lewis Lures packs a punch despite its 3/16-ounce weight. It was introduced at ICAST earlier this year.[…]

Ron Castille of Lake Charles has been putting bass in the boat for many years from one of three public launches along the Sabine River.[…]

The LDWF is looking for participants to help understand the Striped Bass population in the Lake Pontchartrain and Pearl River Basins.[…]

The brand-new Snag Proof Zoo Kick is sure to prove as good as, if not better than, its predecessor from the mid-2010s, the Wobbletron Frog.[…]

Stone Smith and Drake Wadsworth of the Northwestern State University Fishing Team qualified for three national collegiate tournaments.[…]

The Magnum Rat-L-Trap triggers bites at Toledo Bend as big bass start showing up this first month of winter, if not before.[…]

Brush piles can be dynamite places to fish for bass, especially on lakes that don’t have much natural cover.[…]

Bennett Fontenot and Braxton Speyrer finished a mere 2 ounces shy of winning the 15th annual TBF High School Fishing World Finals.[…]

The specific areas that garner most of Logan Latuso’s attention in the Atchafalaya Basin are from Bayou Long to Murphy Lake and Cross Bayou.[…]

Target the back of creeks for bass until water temperatures cool across the rest of Toledo Bend and the main lake comes into play.[…]

John Dean said that froggin’ and droppin’ are the best ways to put bass in the boat this October at Toledo Bend.[…]

The War Eagle Pro Football Jig should be very effective anywhere bass anglers are targeting fish in 10- to 15-foot depths and deeper.[…]

Kade Hillestad and John Kyle Pearce, ULM Fishing Team members, qualified for three national championship tournaments as a team.[…]