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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.[…]
Fishing
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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.[…]
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.[…]
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.[…]
Inshore Fishing
Three men cited for red snapper violations
Three men aboard a offshore supply boat were cited May 16 in connection with alleged red snapper fishing violations, the Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries announced.[…]
Freshwater Fishing
Stump field slabs
Every year during March and April, fishermen hammer Lake D’Arbonne’s shallow cypress trees and banks for spawning white perch (aka crappie or sac-a-lait).[…]
Inshore Fishing
Fishing hot for Grand Isle Speckled Trout Rodeo
The annual Grand Isle Speckled Trout Rodeo is set for May 25-27, and there’s no better place such an event right now. Setting out from Bridgeside Marina in any direction will land you on fat and hungry trout.[…]
Fishing
Louisiana Safe Boating Week set For May 19-25
Safe Boating Week is set for May 19-25 to mark the beginning of the boating season and to encourage safety on the water this summer, the Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries announced.[…]
Inshore Fishing
Croaker Soaker
“I fish live bait — live croakers,” the 68-year-old says with conviction, as if looking for a challenge. “Using plastic can be a good way to find the fish,” he adds, seeming for a moment to soften a bit, “but when I find them, I throw croakers to catch more.[…]
Inshore Fishing
No-name duo takes two big-money speckled trout tournaments
It would be tough to find a hotter fishing team in America right now than Marcus Rieffel and Jim Tumey.[…]
Catfish
Back to basics
Whether it’s blue catfish or channel catfish, Central Louisiana’s coastal bays in the springtime are teeming with both. Toss in the occasional flathead, and what you have is the skinning pliers Ictalurus Trifecta of North America.
From the Atchafalaya River to East Cote Blanche Bay, nearly every bayou, canal or unnamed tributary that empties freshwater is a potential location to drop anchor and tightline for catfish in this region.[…]