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Stacking up the state fish — Sac-a-lait fishing tips for Chicot Lake
In 1993, the Louisiana Legislature designated the “white perch” as the state’s official freshwater fish.[…]
Freshwater Fishing
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Butte La Rose bailout — Kayak fishing tips for the Atchafalaya Basin
Here it is — April. Your freezer is empty and you are hankering for fish. Your favorite fishing hole, the fabulous Atchafalaya Basin is overwhelmed with muddy, flood-stage river water.[…]
Freshwater Fishing
50 Shades of Sac A Lait
Well Mr. Murphy has hit the big time since we last did a show with him, but he still found time in his schedule to accommodate us for another one. He’s clearly still the sac a lait master and it was also clear that the crappie were spawning big time. They were getting freaky.[…]
Freshwater Fishing
Go old-school for shallow crappie
Melvin Cummings was an expert crappie fishermen 20 years before the words “spider rigging” ever became popular among the crowd that targets slabs — and even though he understands that the concept of multiple-pole trolling is tremendously effective, there’s at least one time of year when he isn’t going to put his single rod down for any reason.[…]
Freshwater Fishing
Houma angler lands potential No. 4-ranked white crappie at Poverty Point
For the last two years in March, anglers at Poverty Point Reservoir State Park have placed a white crappie into Louisiana’s record books.[…]
Crappie/Bream
How to build a kitchen sink rig
Want to try the kitchen sink? Here are the details of the rig Jay Stone came up with to put the maximum number of baits in the right spots to catch suspended crappie.[…]
Freshwater Fishing
Duck Commander’s No. 1 crappie tip
Don’t be hard headed — that’s Jay Stone’s No. 1 crappie tip.[…]
Freshwater Fishing
Duck Commander crappie poles no gimmick
Late last year, the Duck Commander crew and popular jig pole manufacturer B’n’M got together to develop and market a whole new line of crappie fishing poles.[…]
Freshwater Fishing
Top catfishing baits
More catfish have been caught with night crawlers than any other bait, and that probably will always be the case.[…]
Freshwater Fishing
Blue catfish more tolerant of salinities than channel cats
Along Atchafalaya Bay, where my spouse and I fish, there are higher rates of salinity in the early spring. […]
Freshwater Fishing
Navigator is MVP of kitchen-sink fishing
“The most valuable person when fishing the kitchen sink rig, or really any spider rig, is the navigator,” Jay Stone said. “The navigator has to pay attention to where the boat is at all times.”[…]
Freshwater Fishing
Last week’s cold front shouldn’t dampen Basin sac-a-lait bite for long
Murphy Royer was wearing short pants and a short-sleeved shirt last Wednesday when Greg Hackney and the Sportsman TV crew joined him in Henderson Lake to film an upcoming episode on springtime sac-a-alit fishing.[…]
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Cool Cats — Best ways to catch springtime catfish
My father-in-law was a marsh man who dreaded coming home from down the bayou after trapping season.[…]
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Po-boy panfish — How to catch lake runners, bluegill and catfish in Bayou Lacombe
You know how it goes: After slurping through a few pounds of spicy boiled crawfish you start craving a something a little heavier and crunchier.[…]
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If you knew the gou as I do
The freshwater drum, Aplodinotus grunniens, has to be the most disrespected large freshwater fish in Louisiana and probably the whole United States.[…]
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Stone cold crappie — Duck Commander develops crappie-catching rig
“That’s not a fair question,” Jay Stone said, turning his head quickly to eyeball the tip of one of the 16-foot crappie poles that he thought had signaled another fish on the end of the line.[…]