Freshwater Fishing
The Sinkhole
Since mid-summer, Bayou Corne has received plenty of not-so-welcome publicity because of what the media has dubbed the “Bayou Corne Sinkhole.”[…]
Freshwater Fishing
Freshwater Fishing
An author too!
Besides being a fanatical angler, Jim Looney is the author of 12 fishing booklets focused on how to catch bass, bream and sac-a-lait in the Grand Bayou-Bayou Corne areas, as well as the Atchafalaya Basin. He also covers redfish and speckled trout in Pointe au Chien.[…]
Freshwater Fishing
Learn It!
Like so much of Louisiana, the Bayou Corne/Grand Bayou area seems to be a maze of canals and bayous. All of them look almost the same, so “what does a poor girl do?”[…]
Freshwater Fishing
Missing fishermen safe found south of Lake Arthur
Two boaters who failed to return home yesterday from a trip in the Grand Lake area south of Lake Arthur were found today after a 12-hour search, the Louisiana Department of Wildlife & Fisheries reported.[…]
Freshwater Fishing
Project to help flow of freshwater in Attakapas Island WMA
Dredging began yesterday (Oct. 24) to help improve the flow of fresh water in the Attakapas Island Wildlife Management Area, the Louisiana Department of Natural Resources announced.[…]
Freshwater Fishing
State-record channel cat caught in Mississippi River
When Mike Richardson actively began fishing for river cats approximately two months ago, he didn’t have any illusions of setting a state angling record in the process.[…]
Freshwater Fishing
Henderson dredging project to begin this week
Dredging will begin this week at Lake Henderson just east of Lafayette to allow access to the lake from several boat launches along the western guide levee of the Atchafalaya River during low water periods, the Louisiana Department of Natural Resources announced today (Oct. 16).[…]
Freshwater Fishing
Body of missing Ouachita River angler found
The body of a 64-year-old Monroe man who was reported missing Thursday (Sept. 20) was found Saturday (Sept. 22), the Louisiana Department of Wildlife & Fisheries reported.[…]
Columns
Smart anglers use grass shrimp
Freshwater anglers, unlike saltwater fishermen who well know the role of shrimp in the food web of the species they pursue, mostly ignore shrimp.[…]
Freshwater Fishing
Chico Lake drawdown scheduled
Chicot Lake water-control structures will be opened in early September as part of an effort to manage the submerged vegetation on the reservoir, the Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries announced.[…]
Freshwater Fishing
Cranked! Tips for catching summertime marsh bass
“So uhhh — Dad. Why do we have to leave again?” my son Jason asked, while he was setting his crankbait with a solid jerk into another little marsh bass.[…]
Freshwater Fishing
Chicot produces hot August slab crappie
There is no way the heat of August will stop Glynn Lavergne from finding sac-a-lait in Evangeline Parish’s Chicot Lake.[…]
Freshwater Fishing
Larose brothers survive lightning strike while fishing tournament
In what both brothers called a miracle, Chad and Chuck Colombel are out of the hospital after one of them was struck by lightning while they were fishing in Lake Cataouatche on Saturday (Aug. 4).[…]
Freshwater Fishing
Prespawn chinquapin staging over mussel shells at Grand Bayou
I could hardly find the boat ramp at Grand Bayou near Coushatta because there was no long line of boats waiting to launch.[…]
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Cranked! Tips for catching summertime marsh bass
“So uhhh — Dad. Why do we have to leave again?” my son Jason asked, while he was setting his crankbait with a solid jerk into another little marsh bass.[…]
Freshwater Fishing
Best baits for marsh bass
Marsh bass feed heavily on invertebrates. So anglers should fish trenasses that drain marsh ponds, small bayous that drain into large bayous right at the mouth, pipelines and ditches with water flowing to take advantage of prime ambush areas.[…]