Despite a tougher day of fishing Saturday, Kevin VanDam positioned himself for a wire-to-wire victory heading into the final day of the Bassmaster Elite Series event at Toledo Bend, picking up a solid five-fish bag weighing 24 pounds, 12 ounces.[…]
The biggest thing Kevin VanDam hooked Friday was himself — but that didn’t stop him from putting together a 20-pound, 11-ounce bag to maintain his lead at the Bassmaster Elite Series stop at Toledo Bend. […]
Enforcement agents with the Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries cited four men for allegedly using skimmers during a closed shrimp season on May 10 in Plaquemines Parish.[…]
When I go bass fishing in May on Toledo Bend, my go-to lure will be — without a doubt — a soft-plastic that should wreak havoc on bass up and down the lake wherever peppergrass, milfoil and coontail is prevalent.[…]
Chas Champagne wishes it would have been as simple as pointing a futuristic-looking device at one of the most-popular speckled trout soft plastics on the market and reducing the size significantly, like in the 1989 movie “Honey, I Shrunk the Kids.”[…]
May is typically moving month for speckled trout along Louisiana’s coast, as they make their transition from inside waters and head offshore to spawn.[…]
Kevin VanDam decided to go deep Thursday, and the move paid off with a 29-pound-plus bag good enough for the Day 1 lead at the Bassmaster Elite Series top on Toledo Bend. […]
If you don’t register, you can’t win![…]
A 31-year-old Carencro man died Thursday afternoon when the boat he was traveling in with his father struck an Interstate 10 piling between the Ramah and Whiskey Bay exits, according to a news release from the Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries.[…]
Agents with the Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries cited a Slidell man for alleged crab trap theft in Plaquemines Parish on May 11.[…]
Enforcement agents with the Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries arrested six boaters for allegedly operating a vessel while intoxicated on the water in Livingston Parish.[…]
Capt. Keith “Herk” Bergeron said May is probably the best month of the year to fish for trout in the Grand Isle area. […]
The Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries will initiate a drawdown on Iatt Lake in Grant Parish starting on May 16 for vegetation control.[…]
Lafitte anglers have to make long runs most of the year to reach hot trout action, but this month everything is happening near the little port south of New Orleans.[…]
When you’re totally and completely obsessed with catching your first double-digit bass, apparently — in some weird, twisted way — hooking up with a big 9-pounder can somehow be seen as a crushing disappointment.[…]
Offshore action should be nothing short of spectacular this month out of Venice, according to a fishing guide.[…]