Freshwater Fishing
Scented crappie baits – the facts
Crappie anglers have many products from which to choose. Some may be marketed more heavily to the bass world, but a shad is a shad and garlic is garlic, regardless of who’s smelling it.[…]
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Crappie/Bream
Good Scents
Adding smell to your crappie baits increases appeal and results in more bites. Here are some expert thoughts from Toledo Bend guide Jerry Thompson.[…]
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September drawdowns scheduled for Hardwater, Chicot Lakes
The Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries has scheduled drawdowns to begin on two state lakes starting on Tuesday, Sept. 2.[…]
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Spearfishing catfish stump strategy
While Jacob Griffin munched on peanut butter-filled cheese crackers between dives, he chattered about the fish he loves to chase.[…]
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Best gear
If you want to hear the cry “striper on” often, here’s the gear Captain D recommends.[…]
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Four seasons of Claiborne stripers
Persistent fishermen can catch striped bass on Lake Claiborne pretty much all year long. The four seasons of Claiborne stripers vary a little bit from traditional “seasons,” as Donny Hood outlined below.[…]
Freshwater Fishing
Eat, sleep, fish
Whoever came up with the “Eat, Sleep, Fish” T-shirt must have been from Louisiana. That’s because usually everywhere you find good fishing, good food can’t be far away.[…]
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History of Claiborne stripers
Lake Claiborne was completed in 1967. Even before that time, Hood’s father had property on the lake, and the two of them have actually walked all the way across what he calls the Little Lake area of Claiborne, which is the large open area north of the Big Lake but still south of the two large arms that extend far to the north of the spillway almost all the way to downtown Homer in Claiborne Parish.[…]
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Tippets
Ask any veteran fly angler and they’ll tell you that August is perhaps the toughest month of the year for fly fishing in Louisiana — with three very notable exceptions.[…]
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Where to go on Black Bayou Reservoir
Black Bayou Reservoir (not to be confused with Black Bayou Lake near Monroe) is a 600-acre body of water located eight miles north of Bossier City near the town of Benton.[…]
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Tackle for Black Bayou black crappie
Weldon’s Black Bayou setup is four 12-foot Outlaw crappie poles with 12-pound high visibility Stren gold monofilament line.[…]
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Find your catfish
Sonar expert Doug Vahrenberg offered a few tips for leveraging the perspective of subsurface imaging for effective catfish targeting.[…]
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Swamp studz?
The lean and tanned 24-year-old had just graduated college with a degree in engineering technology, but you would have to talk to him a long time before that turned up in the conversation.[…]
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Lake Maurepas is a big, little-known lake
Lake Maurepas is a big lake — actually the second-largest lake fully in Louisiana after its big brother Lake Pontchartrain, which lies immediately to the east of Maurepas.[…]
Freshwater Fishing
Gearing up to spearfish catfish
For all the “cool factor” in what Jacob Griffin does, his sport is decidedly low-tech.[…]
Columns
Micro fly fishing
If Stephen Robert, Rob Bergeron and myself were ever locked in a nuclear laboratory, within 24 hours the world would end.[…]