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Deep Sound
I’d talked about taking this trip for months and now, finally, I was on my way.[…]
Fishing
Freshwater Fishing
Essential bull-bream equipment
Bream big and small will often suck a bait — hook and all — deep down their throats before the float sinks.[…]
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Elite strategem
Dean Rojas won last year’s BASS Elite Series stop at Toledo Bend with 70.15 pounds of bass caught over four days of fishing.[…]
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Cover: June 2012
The nation’s top bass anglers head to Toledo Bend this month, and the coast trout action is as hot as it gets.[…]
Freshwater Fishing
Beating the heat during the bream bite
June temperatures often start out in the mid 70s, requiring bream anglers to use a few precautions when going out on the water for a morning of fishing.[…]
Fishing Tournaments
Tietje’s top 5 anglers to watch
Predicting who will win a bass tournament is about as much of a sure thing as predicting what five cards you’re going to get in a hand of poker.[…]
Inshore Fishing
Tippets
June is perhaps the best month to catch speckled trout in the surf on flies.[…]
Fishing Tournaments
Tietje’s top 5 Toledo Bend baits
Since he isn’t fishing the Bassmaster Elite Series Toledo Bend tournament this year because of a medical exemption, local bass pro Dennis Tietje didn’t mind revealing the five lures that he believes will play big parts in putting together a winning pattern when the pros stop at the Bend this month.[…]
Inshore Fishing
Upcoming Events
All month — CCA STAR Tournament. Runs through Labor Day (Sept. 3). Fly Fishing East and West Divisions for heaviest speckled trout. Also, a consolation drawing at the end of the tournament for all trout weighed in the Fly Division.[…]
Fishing Tournaments
Tournament schedule
The 2012 Bassmaster Elite Series will stop at Toledo Bend in early June, with the world’s top pros prefishing for the event beginning June 4, while competition will kick off at daybreak on June 7 and wrap up on June 10.[…]
Freshwater Fishing
Search deeper points for bass this month
Automobile dealer Jerry Hester of Red River Parish lives near and fishes Grand Bayou regularly.[…]
Offshore Fishing
Dancing the jig
Saltwater fishing has its ups and downs, but when snapper top your target list you’ll have a ton of fun with a bait based on the notion of up-and-down.[…]
Apex Predator
Fishing trip makes bachelor party despite dire weather warnings
With the weekend set, I was eagerly anticipating a full-out ruthless fishing assault at my lil’ brothers bachelor party in Cocodrie. Unexpectedly, there was a last minute curve ball thrown at us: A huge, swirling low-pressure system making its way from Texas was planning to curve toward us all three days.[…]
Freshwater Fishing
PFDs always best, user warns
The child was quiet now.
The woman held him close under the hot Louisiana sun. But the heat of the sun on this day was no match for the cold that gripped her heart.[…]
Inshore Fishing
Florida men cited for redfishing violations
Two Florida men were cited May 18 near Fourchon after enforcement agents allegedly caught them with 24 undersized redfish and two undersized black drum, the Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries Enforcement Division reported.[…]
Inshore Fishing
Outer limits
This is it: You don’t have to wait any longer.
The month we long for with impatient anticipation throughout the entire year has finally arrived in all its spring glory.[…]