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Ten feet high and fallin’ — Best Atchafalaya Basin sac-a-lait tips
“In a perfect world, it would be 10 feet on the Butte La Rose gauge with a slow fall, year around,” the rakish young man told me with an infectious grin. […]
Freshwater Fishing
Freshwater Fishing
Snagged 120-pound blue cat doesn’t qualify as new state record
Justin Coco reeled in a giant blue catfish for the ages early Sunday morning, but the big fish won’t qualify as a new No. 1 for the Louisiana record books because it was snagged — not hooked in the mouth.[…]
Freshwater Fishing
What you need to know about fishing Lake D’Arbonne
On the way to the Highway 15 boat launch, John Odom provided a quick primer on fishing Lake D’Arbonne.[…]
Freshwater Fishing
VIDEO: Kayaker finds massive gator on end of jug line
Baton Rouge’s Lance Burgos was enjoying a weekend camping trip to Lake Fausse Point State Park with his 11-year-old daughter Evan on Saturday when a jug line in a nearby canal caught their eye.
“She had been watching that yellow float swimming around, and she said, ‘I want to know what’s on the other end,'” the elder Burgos said. “I told her it was either a catfish or a garfish.”[…]
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Flat-out crappie — How to catch Lake D’Arbonne’s white perch
John Odom is a big guy — 6-foot, 4-inches and 290 pounds “after a recent diet,” he informed me.[…]
Freshwater Fishing
Poverty Point yields four-crappie, almost 11-pound stringer
It might have taken Twayne Hosea years and years of crappie fishing to break the mythical 3-pound mark at Poverty Point Reservoir State Park, but the Delhi angler hasn’t looked back since catching a whopping 3.52-pounder on Feb. 25.[…]
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How agents shut down illegal taking and selling of crappie
March has always been crappie month. It is the time when these popular game fish school and move toward the shallows for spawning.[…]
Apex Predator
Apex Predator lands a 58-pound mud whale
Just like hunting, when it comes to fishing my goal is big game. So in the springtime I regularly set noodle lines for choupic and catfish, but this year I had the urge to catch a big one the old-fashioned way: with a rod and reel. […]
Freshwater Fishing
Crappie tournaments can shorten learning curve
One of the best decisions James Morgan made when he retired and dedicated himself to crappie fishing was to enter tournaments.[…]
Freshwater Fishing
Top crappie-fishing gear
Like all fishermen, James Morgan has favored equipment upon which he depends to consistently catch enough crappie to feed himself and many of his friends.[…]
Freshwater Fishing
High-tech helps catch more crappie
Having some of the best equipment, especially in electronics, isn’t absolutely necessary to catch crappie. But to be consistent, it sure doesn’t hurt, James Morgan said.[…]
Freshwater Fishing
How to beat Lake D’Arbonne’s crappie-fishing crowds
There are 16,000 acres to fish on Lake D’Arbonne. But when crappie stack up in the spring or even when they arrive at popular spawning grounds, it often looks like a boat show on the water. […]
Freshwater Fishing
VIDEO: Discover how to catch Tchefuncte River crappie
This time of year, even anglers who don’t regularly target sac-a-lait break out the light line and poles. Covington’s Jeff Bruhl did that Monday evening, and murdered the crappie on one of the toughest freshwater fisheries in the state — the Tchefuncte River.[…]
Freshwater Fishing
On fire – Poverty Point gives up potential No. 4 crappie Thursday
For the third time in eight days, Poverty Point Reservoir State Park has yielded a potential Top 5 crappie for the Louisiana record books.[…]
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We got gar – Louisiana has four species
In a state laced with streams, rivers, bayous, lakes and marshes, pretty well anyone who spends time outdoors knows that Louisiana has a lot of gars.[…]
Freshwater Fishing
Poverty Point yields potential No. 3 white crappie Wednesday evening
If this all looks very familiar, you’re not seeing double or reading the same story twice: The Hosea brothers — identical twins — are rewriting the white crappie record books for both Poverty Point Reservoir State Park and the state of Louisiana.[…]