Bass Fishing
Hackney falls 8 ounces short, places third at Dardanelle
Greg Hackney’s 15-pound, 3-ounce sack on Sunday wasn’t quite enough for victory at the Bassmaster Elite Series stop at Lake Dardanelle.[…]
Fishing
Bass Fishing
‘Hack-Attack’ continues on Dardanelle
Greg Hackney holds a slim 13-ounce lead over Rick Clunn heading into Day 4 of the Bassmaster Elite at Lake Dardanelle.[…]
News Breaker
HB 1082 sails through Senate Natural Resources Committee, heads to full senate for final vote
A bill that would raise saltwater license fees by 136 percent breezed through the Louisiana Senate’s Natural Resources Committee on Thursday and now heads to the full Senate for final consideration, according to the bill’s author.[…]
Bass Fishing
Hackney leads after Day 2 of Bassmaster Elite at Lake Dardanelle
Bassmaster Elite pro Greg Hackney is in first place at the Elite Series stop at Lake Dardanelle after an impressive fog-shortened day of fishing in Russellville, Ark.[…]
Bass Fishing
Lake Arthur angler catches 10.48-pounder at Toledo Bend
After a pretty uneventful morning fishing at Indian Creek and Mills Creek at Toledo Bend Thursday, Lake Arthur’s Dustin Thibodeaux and Shayne Teal decided to change things up and headed to the Toro area after lunch to test their luck.[…]
Fishing Tournaments
Stan Brock’s Black & Gold Classic scheduled for Saturday at Grand Isle
If you think you can catch a bigger mangrove snapper than Morten Andersen or a heavier drum than Dalton Hilliard, you’ll get your chance Saturday during Stan Brock’s Black & Gold Classic at Grand Isle.[…]
Columns
Smithwick Elite 8 Suspending Rogue
It wasn’t too long ago that the Elite 8, the eight best college basketball teams in the country playing in the NCAA’s “Big Dance,” were thrilling fans and television audiences in a hopeful waltz to the Final Four and, ultimately, to the title game at the center of every bracket in the U.S.[…]
Inshore Fishing
Springtime speckled trout action not yet up to Big Lake standards
Strong winds that just don’t seem to let up and few, if any, shrimp in the system.[…]
News Breaker
Officials react to fed’s decision to shorten red snapper season
Unthinkable and insane. Crazy. Buffoonery and chaos. Those were just a few of the choice words officials used to describe yesterday’s announcement by NOAA Fisheries that the already-too-short recreational red snapper season in the Gulf had been cut by two more days.[…]
Freshwater Fishing
Tippets
Fly fishing on the coast should be speck-tacular this month as the snaggletooths show up in force on the beaches and in the bays.[…]
Inshore Fishing
The Candy Man can — Fishing gummy worms for trout
When Bob Bateman nestled the bow of the boat against the grassy bank and reached for a rod rigged with an oval popping cork, I knew he was going after speckled trout.[…]
Inshore Fishing
Taxidermy tips for speckled trout
Living and working in Johnson Bayou nestled between Sabine and Calcasieu lakes, 60-year-od Hank Badon is in a unique position to practice his art of taxidermy on the many trophy speckled trout taken in the area.[…]
Bass Fishing
Peg it and Flip it
Denny Brauer, possibly the most-accomplished flipper in all of bass fishing, knows that preventing his sinker from sliding up his line enhances precision by keeping that weight centered over the bait.[…]
Bass Fishing
Two-way conversation
Inevitably, every bait wears out its welcome at some point. But rather than completely shifting to another scenario, chatterbait anglers can often extend their bite — and adapt to changing conditions — by pairing their bladed package with the similar, yet more-subtle swim jig.[…]
Bass Fishing
Innovative head design
When Strike King introduced its Rage Blade last year, it redefined the vibe jig category with a weighted blade rather than a traditional lead or tungsten jig head.[…]
Bass Fishing
What’s new at D’Arbonne for 2014?
“This year has brought us something in our area that we haven’t had in years,” Mark Prices. “We had a long, cold winter followed by a normal spring.[…]