Crappie/Bream
Hit reed beds for Cypress Lake’s crappie in April
April is a great time to catch spawning crappie on Cypress Lake. According to Wesley Miller, they will be around reed beds and piers.[…]
Crappie/Bream
Crappie/Bream
Technicolor minnows will outproduce naturals
Pautzke’s Fire Dye will turn live minnows from their natural color to a handful of bright colors to attract gamefish.[…]
Crappie/Bream
Fishing with a crappie master
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!
Joel Masson and his buddy Emile Cangiamilla were fishing for sac-a-lait on the Tchefuncte River under tiny styrofoam corks.[…]
Crappie/Bream
Tchefuncte River sac-a-lait spreading out in March
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
Planer boards allow fishermen to slow-troll their baits and lures in extremely shallow water as prespawn crappie move toward the bank.[…]
Crappie/Bream
Live minnows make a jig more productive
Threading a minnow on a jighead behind a soft-plastic bait gives your crappie offering increased bulk and some flavor.[…]
Crappie/Bream
That’s a ‘whole’ plate of crappie
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
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
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
Ray Miller’s tried-and-true technique of fishing vertically around deep brush piles does the trick on crappie in Northshore waters.[…]
Columns
Lure Review: Hamma Heads
Crappie Psychic’s Clyde Folse debuts the flat jigheads he’s been using to put crappie in the boat for decades.[…]
Crappie/Bream
Try live crawfish when you target slab crappie
Don’t forget crawfish for late-winter and early spring crappie. Crawfish and crawfish-colored lures start working best in February.[…]
Crappie/Bream
Des Allemands, Boeuf areas hot for sac-a-lait
Canals and other waterways around Bayou Des Allemands and Lake Boeuf are places you’ll find sac-a-lait anglers targeting slabs in January.[…]
Crappie/Bream
Bayou Lacombe basics for January sac-a-lait
Forrest Green of Lacombe has learned a lot about how colder temperatures affect the crappie bite on Bayou Lacombe.[…]
Crappie/Bream
Sac-a-lait fishing peaks at Henderson Lake
Drawdown shouldn’t hurt sac-a-lait fishing at Henderson Lake. November is a prime time for sac-a-lait fishing at Henderson Lake.[…]