Inshore Fishing
Tooling up for March redfishing
Junior Mendoza is a strong advocate of braided lines, using 30-pound-test PowerPro.[…]
Freshwater Fishing
Navigator is MVP of kitchen-sink fishing
“The most valuable person when fishing the kitchen sink rig, or really any spider rig, is the navigator,” Jay Stone said. “The navigator has to pay attention to where the boat is at all times.”[…]
Crappie/Bream
How to build a kitchen sink rig
Want to try the kitchen sink? Here are the details of the rig Jay Stone came up with to put the maximum number of baits in the right spots to catch suspended crappie.[…]
Freshwater Fishing
Duck Commander’s No. 1 crappie tip
Don’t be hard headed — that’s Jay Stone’s No. 1 crappie tip.[…]
Freshwater Fishing
Duck Commander crappie poles no gimmick
Late last year, the Duck Commander crew and popular jig pole manufacturer B’n’M got together to develop and market a whole new line of crappie fishing poles.[…]
Freshwater Fishing
Top catfishing baits
More catfish have been caught with night crawlers than any other bait, and that probably will always be the case.[…]
Freshwater Fishing
Blue catfish more tolerant of salinities than channel cats
Along Atchafalaya Bay, where my spouse and I fish, there are higher rates of salinity in the early spring. […]
Bass Fishing
Adjust to prespawn bass-fishing volatility
When a cold front boogers up the prespawn scene, colder temperatures and bright, bluebird conditions will push the fish back off their staging positions.[…]
Inshore Fishing
Tippets
Grass has begun showing up in the coastal ponds. The grass holds lots of food items for hungry reds.[…]
Bass Fishing
Tackle tips for bass fishing in grass
FLW Pro JT Kenney likes a bladed swim jig around prespawn grass, but if the fish aren’t fully committed — maybe because of post-frontal blues — he finds himself missing a lot of short strikes.[…]
Events & Announcements
Enter the Sportsman Big Buck Contest now to win a Yamaha ATV
The 2015 Louisiana Sportsman Big Buck Contest is finally here, but you only have until 6 p.m. on Saturday to get your buck registered at the Lamar-Dixon Expo Center in Gonzales.[…]
Big Bass
Texas angler catches 10.42-pounder Wednesday on Toledo Bend
Verlin Nesbitt’s Wednesday got started just like any other day when he goes fishing at Toledo Bend. […]
News Breaker
Gulf states agree on snapper management framework that could remove federal oversight of fishery
For the first time ever, all five Gulf states have banded together to create a management framework that, if ultimately approved by Congress, would finally remove the red snapper fishery from the control of the federal government.[…]
Fishing
T-H Marine
Greg Hackney lets the T-H Marines Atlas Jack Plate do all the heavy lifting.[…]
Bass Fishing
Strike King – Teamwork
Strike King and Greg Hackney, Teamwork[…]
Bass Fishing
Frigid in the Basin
The cold fronts don’t want to quit this time of year, but we had enough confidence in the mighty power of the Atchafalaya Basin to go out and get a show done after a front dropped the temps. We bundled up and slowed it down to catch a nice mess of basin bass.[…]