Louisiana Sportsman

Lake Claiborne gives up 12-pound-plus hawg

February 23, 2018 Glynn Harris

Fishing a Louisiana Media Bass singles tournament on Lake Claiborne, things didn’t exactly start out so well for Chris Clement.[…]

Lenten dinner trip results in 11-pound bass

February 21, 2018 Andy Crawford

Sometimes it’s better to be lucky than good.

That was proved Feb. 16 when Elton’s Phillip Durio arrived at Toledo Bend expecting his dad to have caught enough bass for a Lenten dinner that Friday evening.[…]

Basin bass already moving to post-spawn pattern

February 20, 2018 Andy Crawford

After the frigid winter, the expectation when we left the landing Monday morning was that we’d find bass sucked up tight to the banks doing their spawning business.[…]

LDWF removing slot limit for bass on Caney Creek Reservoir

February 16, 2018 From News Reports

The existing slot limit for black bass on Caney Creek Reservoir in Jackson Parish will be removed on Tuesday, Feb. 20, with statewide regulations calling for a 10-fish daily creel limit and no length restrictions in place moving forward.[…]

Marsh Man Masson vid: Aiming for FAT STACKS in local tournament

February 15, 2018 Todd Masson

You don’t need a lot of bites to win a bass tournament. You just need the right five fish.[…]

Cane River gives up 13-pound bass

February 13, 2018 Andy Crawford

The weather was miserable leading up to Sunday’s Good Ole Boys Bass Club tournament on Cane River, with a cold front moving dropping the temps from 67 to 44 degrees that morning.[…]

Inshore insights: Louisiana’s ever-expanding bass fishery

February 9, 2018 Devin Denman

The only constant in Louisiana is change, and the poster-child of that change is our inshore fishery.[…]

Bistineau angler catches, releases 12-pound monster

February 1, 2018 Patrick Bonin

Last Wednesday, Jan. 24, Hunter Vaughn and his grandpa Jack Elkins decided to make a quick late-afternoon fishing trip on Lake Bistineau. Neither knew it at the time, but they were about one hour from encountering the biggest bass they’d ever seen.[…]

How to find spring bass no one else targets

February 1, 2018 Andy Crawford

Most bass anglers wait anxiously all year for the spring spawn, and then head straight to the banks of their favorite lake to pluck big girls off their beds.[…]

Best bets for Upper-Basin bass

February 1, 2018 Andy Crawford

The sprawling Atchafalaya Basin offers bass anglers a lot of playing room, but when Addis angler Darren Hernandez heads to this swamp, he’s likely to be working the waters surrounding Big Bayou Pigeon.[…]

Bistineau bigmouths

February 1, 2018 Jerald Horst

“We fished this very spot,” murmured 59-year-old Rickey Lee. “I can’t remember names and faces, but I can remember where I caught a fish.”[…]

Lunker mentality

February 1, 2018 David A. Brown

Spawning activity typically cranks up across Toledo Bend this month. Use these tips to take advantage of some of the best bass fishing.[…]

Three patterns to catch False River bass

January 30, 2018 Andy Crawford

False River in Pointe Coupee Parish was once one of the premier fisheries in the state, part of the Quality Lakes system stocked with Florida-strain bass. And then in the late 1990s, things just fell apart — siltation and water clarity suffered, and the fishery became a shade of its former glory.[…]

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