Bass Fishing
Kayaking for green trout
Coastal kayak anglers have a relatively new, green target: largemouth bass, aka green trout can be caught alongside redfish and trout.[…]
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Bass Fishing
Cliff Crochet’s versatile bass bait
Bass pro Cliff Crochet uses the Spike, a soft-plastic, stickbait-style worm, year-round, but especially during the prespawn and spawn.[…]
Field Reports
Video trail cam captures buck shedding antler
Justin Hoffman of Ontario, Canada found a shed antler at the base of his trail camera, and the camera captured the antler dropping on video.[…]
Field Reports
Catching redfish from a public road
Referred to as the redfish jubilee, anglers line up along the roads on either side of the bayou between Shell Beach and Hopedale.[…]
Bass Class
Bass Class: SLU’s Dawson Andrews and Wyatt Ensminger talk fishing
Southeastern Louisiana University bass-fishing stars Dawson Andrews and Wyatt Ensminger plan to head to the professional ranks.[…]
Catfish
Species spotlight: Blue catfish
Blue catfish are highly adaptable and live in almost any type of freshwater; lakes, ponds, creeks, swamps or rivers.[…]
Field Reports
Fishing for suspended specks
Chas Champagne heads out before the Big Freeze of 2021 with one more run on big speckled trout using the Matrix Minnow suspended jerkbait.[…]
Big Bass
Cold weather lights fire under lunker largemouth!
Hunter Cavalier caught a big 11.9-pound Ivan Lake whopper, his personal best largemouth, on Feb. 12, 2021.[…]
Crappie/Bream
Live minnows make a jig more productive
Threading a minnow on a jighead behind a soft-plastic bait gives your crappie offering increased bulk and some flavor.[…]
Big Bass
Wiggins relives a magic moment in landing state record bass
On Feb. 12, 1994, Greg Wiggins was fishing Caney Lake with fishing partner Mark Smith when he landed a monster 15.97-pound bass.[…]
Field Reports
How to clean and cook a squirrel
Squirrel hunting season is going strong, offering up fast action and tasty meals for hunters who also know how to cook them.[…]
Field Notes
It’s time to pattern your shotgun for turkey season
Turkey season is coming up, so it’s time to pattern your shotgun with the right combination of choke tube and load size.[…]
Crappie/Bream
That’s a ‘whole’ plate of crappie
Kinny Haddox scaled, cleaned and removed all the inedible parts from two 16-inch crappie and decided to cook them whole.[…]
Field Reports
Duck Legs and Grits
Jared Serigné of Outside the Levees shares a great Duck Legs and Grits recipe. In this version, he uses wild duck legs.[…]
Field Reports
The sac-a-lait run begins!
Todd Masson hitched up his boat and journeyed to the Tchefuncte River to fish for February sac-a-lait and bass.[…]
Fishing Hotspots
Golden Meadow trout you can bank on!
Reggie Legendre catches big trout in Golden Meadow off the bank and in his small eight-foot Pelican boat this time of year all along Hwy. 1.[…]