Covers 2023 January 2024 – | View the Contents Blaine Salter of Prairieville is well known for his jigging poles and fishing knowledge, which both helped him catch this big Louisiana crappie. | View the Contents March 2023 – Grant Clark made good on his first trip to Chicot Lake with this near 9-pound bass. His fishing partner, Jonathan Fisher, helped by jumping in to untangle the bass from around a cypress tree. | View the Contents Travis Lovell, owner of Reelin Good Charters out of Dularge, with a couple of trout from a trip last spring. (Photo courtesy Buzz Hayes for the Confluence Group) | View the Contents Louisiana is blessed with awesome offshore fishing for a variety of species, including big gamefish like this huge tuna. | View the Contents Donna O’Brien with an 18-pound red snapper caught out of Port Fourchon last summer. INSET: Rylan Meyers caught this bass flipping a Blue Sapphire Craw in Delacroix. | View the Contents Cayce Causey caught this gator trout using a gold spoon at Freemason Island on May 4. The trout was released afterwards. | View the Contents A live shrimp fished on a Carolina rig during a falling tide produced this nice trout for Bubba Himel of Houma. He was fishing a little north of Wine Island in Lake Pelto. | View the Contents The long wait is almost over for deer hunters as they get in final preparations to target big bucks. (Photo by Matt Hansen) INSET: James Callaway shows off a crappie he caught on a crankbait. (Photo by John N. Felsher) | View the Contents Chris Bonner took this 5 ½-year-old 247-pound 8-point trophy buck on Middle Ground Island in Tensas Parish. INSET: Tournament bass angler Davis Whitten shows off a bass he caught while fishing a walking topwater bait. (Photo by John N. Felsher)| View the Contents Reece Hardee killed this 9-point buck with a bow in Vermilion Parish on Oct. 7. INSET: Jim Bates with a stringer of sac-a-lait caught at Bayou Lacombe (Photo by Keith Lusher Jr.) | View the Contents Logan Leone of Stonewall shot this 15-point buck on Oct. 28 in DeSoto Parish. INSET: Mike Gallo of Angling Adventures of Louisiana with a redfish he caught near Hopedale. (Photo by John N. Felsher) | View the Contents This page is available to subscribers. Click here to sign in or get access.