Apex Predator
Apex Predator’s extreme noodling: Swim-fishing for big cats
During the hot summer months, Joshua Chauvin enjoys getting in the water to retrieve his noodle lines to bring in big catfish.[…]
Freshwater Fishing
Columns
Kayak catfishing
For most Louisiana kayak anglers, trout and redfish are the prime saltwater species, while largemouth bass are the favorite target in freshwater.[…]
Freshwater Fishing
Tip of the day
Tommy Tregle’s self-designed, self-built boat is wonder of efficiency. Custom-built of welded aluminum, it is 18 feet long with a 12-inch V in the bottom. It looks like a hybrid between a mud boat and a bass boat with a center console.[…]
Freshwater Fishing
A swamp life
Born and raised in the town of Des Allemands, Tommy Tregle (pronounced Cajun style as “Treg”) has spent almost his entire life making his living from the water.[…]
Freshwater Fishing
Boeuf River crappie making the cut
All day long at work, Stuart Baum can not avoid talking about fishing. As owner and chief operator of Stuart’s Barber Shop in Columbia, almost every client in these parts either has a fish story to tell or wants to hear the latest fishing report while getting a haircut.[…]
Crappie/Bream
Des Allemands Sac Attack
Tommy Tregle spends his time chasing crappie, invariably called “sac-a-lait” in south Louisiana, usually Lake Des Allemands.[…]
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Hot action on the Big Burns
Clint Ward dropped his 1/32nd ounce jig into the water. Attached to it was a multi-colored curly tail plastic, tipped with a little piece of Berkley Gulp Earthworm the size of a small snow pea added for enticement.[…]
Freshwater Fishing
How to get the drop on De Loutre Basin bream
Combine a collegiate science-based teaching career with a lifelong love of bream fishing and the natural outcome is you end up with the nickname, “Dr. Bream.” This time of year, “Dr. Bream” has a good prescription for you — chase bluegills on some Ouachita River lakes like the De Loutre Basin and Hamilton Lake.[…]
Columns
The cooking game warden strikes again
Abbeville resident and native Derek Logan shares his recipe for Camp Baked Fish and the author shares a recipe for Bream Fillets Thermidor.[…]
Freshwater Fishing
North Louisiana crappie: Made in the shade
Jim McKay loves to fish anytime, but his years as an educator make the summertime one of his favorites. When school was out for summer, Jim was out for crappie. Now he’s retired, but he still hasn’t broken that habit.[…]
Freshwater Fishing
Tip of the day
Mike and Freddie McMullen were making impressively long casts most of the day with minimum weight on the ends of their lines. I finally caught on to what they were doing.[…]
Freshwater Fishing
Brothers in arms
Mike “Road Kill” McMullen, 52, and his brother Freddie, 54, grew up in Treasure Island, essentially an island formed by Bayou DeSiard (pronounced DE zeerd) and Black Bayou, on the northern outskirts of Monroe, Louisiana.[…]
Freshwater Fishing
The Thunder Cork
Freddie McMullen’s fertile mind has spawned a rattling cork specially designed for bream and crappie fishing. Dubbed the “Thunder Cork,” it features tiny BBs in two glass tubes firmly affixed to opposite sides of the cork.[…]
Freshwater Fishing
Bream recipe
There’s a long list of how to prepare fish to eat. But one of the oldest and most popular is whole-fried bream. Many people grew up eating them this way.[…]
Freshwater Fishing
10 tips for finding and catching more bream
Bream are by the far the most plentiful fish and easiest to catch. You don’t even need a boat in many lakes and ponds. Almost every area body of water has bream in it and we have all kinds — bluegills. chinquapins, sunfish, goggle-eyes and all kinds of hybirds.[…]
Freshwater Fishing
Dispute over public fishing hole leads to ticket, arrest on Toledo Bend
A dispute over a public fishing hole escalated Monday on Toledo Bend, leaving one angler with a ticket and another angler who allegedly pulled a firearm booked into the Sabine Parish Correctional Center, according to a press release from the Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries.[…]