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Tippets
We’ve had so much rain this winter that I’m starting to see animals gathering in pairs looking for a large boat. With all this runoff, the big challenge for fly anglers will be to find clear water.[…]
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Upcoming Events
Here’s a list of upcoming events:
Feb. 16-17 — 11th annual Little Mo Fly Fishing Fest, Community Hall, Murfreesboro, Ark. Time: 9 a.m. to 7 p.m. (Saturday), Sunday casting workshop TBA. Seminars, fly tying, casting, food, door prizes and refreshments. Admission: $5. www.littlemissouriflyfishing.com.[…]
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White Lake Wetlands Conservation Area fishing permits now available
Lottery applications for fishing permits to the White Lake Wetlands Conservation Area are now being accepted, the Louisiana Department of Wildlife & Fisheries has announced.[…]
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Secrets of a sac-a-lait master – How to catch more crappie
He called it “venture fishing.” I called it a few choice words I can’t write here. But before me lay an extremely, thick tangle of small, long branches sticking atop the water from a submerged, major artery of a tree.[…]
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Top Chicot Lake crappie tactics
Another location on Glynn Lavergne’s rotating itinerary is Chicot Lake — 2,000 acres of flooded cypress/tupelo located north of Ville Platte within the interior of Chicot State Park.[…]
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Best crappie tackle and lures
Part of Glynn Lavergne’s secret to success with slab crappie has to do with the very sensitive tackle he uses to entice these sac-a-lait.[…]
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Long and Short
There are as many ways to catch crappie as there are names for the tasty fish.[…]
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Take a holiday for sac-a-lait
Fishing is a lifetime pursuit; one never stops learning. Sometimes the education comes from books, videos or seminars.[…]
Columns
Yes, buffalo are fish
Actually, buffalo are three species of fish rather than one. No one knows from where the odd name for the creatures is derived. But their scientific names are almost certainly taken from their common name.[…]
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Poppa Chop Jigs
Got a Poppa Chop?
If so, chances are you are using the fine-hair jig and catching sac-a-lait on the creation Paul “Chopper” Viator and his wife Angela make at their home in Delcambre.[…]
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Sick Day Crappie – Tips for catching Lake D’Arbonne sac-a-lait
My grandfather used to have a plaque at the end of his hall that read, “If fishing interferes with work, quit work!”[…]
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Lake D’Arbonne crappie limit cut in half
The daily bag limit on crappie has been changed for anglers fishing D’Arbonne Lake in Union Parish, the Louisiana Department of Wildlife & Fisheries announced today (Nov. 29).[…]
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Giant salvinia spraying begins on Lake Bistineau
Aerial spraying of giant salvinia is set to begin today on Lake Bistineau in an effort to control the aquatic vegetation that has taken over the reservoir, the Louisiana Department of Wildlife & Fisheries announced.
Helicopter crews will conduct the spraying over two days, with workers in airboats following up with additional spraying in areas of thick concentration among dense cypress trees, the LDWF said.[…]
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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.[…]
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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?”[…]
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Mr. Sac – Tips for fishing crappie on Bayou Corne
Bayou Corne is famous for its crappie fishing, known locally as sac-a-lait and in North Louisiana as white perch.[…]