Among friends and relatives, Ted Samanie is known as “the man” in Schriever when it comes to speck fishing, and his latest achievement might spread word of his title to more of south Louisiana. […]
If you target crappie in areas loaded with stumps, treetops and laydowns that are prone to snags, this tip will save you lots of fishing time — and jigheads.[…]
I grew up in St. Bernard Parish, and often launched my flatboat at the old Depope boat launch in Violet and fished the ancient tower we simply called, “The Castle” — or as it was sometimes referred to, the “Martello Castle.”[…]
It’s a big lake and it’s chock full of bass, but Toledo Bend is no gimme — even with its well-merited title of the nation’s top lake two years running.[…]
When I was 10 years old, my dad, brother and I were hanging out in the Bogue Chitto River behind our house one day.[…]
April is a magical time of year. Trout are on the move back into the marshes this month, and that means you can expect hot action across the coast.[…]
I stood in the stern of Capt. Will Wall’s offshore charter boat, peering at the white buildings of Port Eads Marina etched against the early morning’s battery charged blue sky.[…]
It’s spring, and what Forrest Green calls the “mother lode” of speckled trout is here.
And it won’t last forever.[…]
Anglers have relied on two-speed conventional reels for years. The combination of cranking power and a speedy retrieve rate are sometimes what it takes to land big fish. […]
Longer casts and extreme invisibility are just a few of the benefits you get when you spool P-Line Tactical Fluorocarbon.[…]
It looks like any other fish. Well actually, it doesn’t look like them — it just sees things like them.
It just looks like it’s looking down all the time.[…]
As many people in the older generation are quick to point out, kids these days are lazy.[…]
Being a police officer today is a pretty stressful profession. What they see, what they deal with — it’s a lot.[…]
This is the month to ply the bigger bays with topwater baits, according to veteran Charter Guide T-Man Cheramie (985-677-6294), who operates out of Larose.[…]
Capt. Ron “Ahab” Broadus (504-914-6063) called me with a report and an invite.[…]
During a lengthy law enforcement career, Jay Kavanaugh of Ruston spent a lot of time patrolling important areas of Lincoln Parish. Now he has traded that in for doing the same thing on area lakes. This time of year, you’ll find him on regular patrol out on the flats of Lake D’Arbonne in search of big post-spawn crappie.[…]