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April 12, 2021
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Freshwater Fishing

Crappie/Bream

Make Bay Wallace an April destination for goggle-eye

April 3, 2021 Don Shoopman

According to Bill McCarty, April is the perfect time to fish cypress knees for Bay Wallace goggle-eye in south-central Louisiana. […]

Crappie/Bream

Hit reed beds for Cypress Lake’s crappie in April

April 2, 2021 Kinny Haddox

April is a great time to catch spawning crappie on Cypress Lake. According to Wesley Miller, they will be around reed beds and piers. […]

Pautzke’s Fire Dye will turn live minnows from their natural color to a handful of bright colors to attract gamefish — without otherwise affecting the bait.
Crappie/Bream

Technicolor minnows will outproduce naturals

April 1, 2021 Dan Kibler

Pautzke’s Fire Dye will turn live minnows from their natural color to a handful of bright colors to attract gamefish. […]

Features

Break the fishing code at Bussey Brake

March 26, 2021 Kinny Haddox

How will Bussey Brake Reservoir fish once it’s up to speed? A couple of local experts help anglers understand what it will take to succeed. […]

Fishing

Okuma ITX Carbon series reels

March 26, 2021 Dan Kibler

Okuma turns carbon fiber into strong, light spinning reels. […]

Columns

Species spotlight: Shellcracker

March 23, 2021 Brian Cope

The redear sunfish, aka shellcracker, chinquapin or yellow bream, is identified most easily by the colorful edge around it earflap. […]

Crappie/Bream

Fishing with a crappie master

March 14, 2021 Jared Serigne

Murphy Royer breaks down the best techniques for catching crappie along with the best baits and rod and reel combo. […]

Crappie/Bream

This technique is EXACTLY what the crappie want!

March 3, 2021 Todd Masson

Joel Masson and his buddy Emile Cangiamilla were fishing for sac-a-lait on the Tchefuncte River under tiny styrofoam corks. […]

Crappie will start moving to the mouth of canals and small bayous when the water temperature gets to 60 degrees and stays there. (Photos by Keith Lusher Jr.)
Crappie/Bream

Tchefuncte River sac-a-lait spreading out in March

February 25, 2021 Keith Lusher Jr.

Look for March crappie at mouths of canals, small bayous along Tchefuncte River. Slab-sized sac-a-lait spread out throughout the month. […]

Crappie/Bream

Crappie on a different plane

February 19, 2021 Dusty Wilson

Planer boards allow fishermen to slow-troll their baits and lures in extremely shallow water as prespawn crappie move toward the bank. […]

Catfish

Species spotlight: Blue catfish

February 19, 2021 Brian Cope

Blue catfish are highly adaptable and live in almost any type of freshwater; lakes, ponds, creeks, swamps or rivers. […]

Threading a minnow on a jighead behind a soft-plastic bait gives your offering increased bulk and some flavor. (Photo by Terry Madewell)
Crappie/Bream

Live minnows make a jig more productive

February 17, 2021 Phillip Gentry

Threading a minnow on a jighead behind a soft-plastic bait gives your crappie offering increased bulk and some flavor. […]

Two whole crappie, thoroughly cleaned and seasoned.
Crappie/Bream

That’s a ‘whole’ plate of crappie

February 12, 2021 Kinny Haddox

Kinny Haddox scaled, cleaned and removed all the inedible parts from two 16-inch crappie and decided to cook them whole. […]

Crappie/Bream

Bussey Brake gives up No. 2 white crappie

February 5, 2021 Kinny Haddox

Anthony Griffith caught a 3.60 pound Bussey Brake white crappie on Jan. 30, that will be the No. 2 white crappie ever caught in Louisiana. […]

Crappie/Bream

Bussey black crappie breaks 3-pound mark

January 29, 2021 Kinny Haddox

James Morgan of Rocky Branch hooked a 3.22-pound black crappie in some thick brush on Jan. 23 at Bussey Brake WMA. […]

Crappie/Bream

Northshore’s great cold-weather crappie bite continues

January 26, 2021 Keith Lusher Jr.

Ray Miller’s tried-and-true technique of fishing vertically around deep brush piles does the trick on crappie in Northshore waters. […]

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