Post-spawn potential — Learn why you should fish Toledo Bend after lunkers leave the shallows
There’s no time when Toledo Bend guide Dave Mansue isn’t in love with this Sabine River impoundment.[…]
There’s no time when Toledo Bend guide Dave Mansue isn’t in love with this Sabine River impoundment.[…]
In early May, Johnson spends much of his time beneath Pendleton Bridge over public artificial reefs.[…]
Before this spring’s historic flooding on Toledo Bend, longtime guide Jerry Thompson of Living the Dream Guide Service (318-256-8991) was finding some hefty slab crappie.[…]
Fishing guide Shane Johnson said May and June are the best months to catch numbers of crappie off the artificial reefs under Pendleton Bridge.[…]
It was the day of the full moon of May 2015, and New Iberia’s Shane Johnson was pumped.[…]
Toledo Bend’s a big lake, and even though it’s a lot longer than it is wide, you really don’t want to get caught in the middle during a big spring wind[…]
“Don’t be afraid to come fish Toledo Bend because it rained.”[…]
OK, a lot of the fame and celebrity we see in this world boils down to a whole lot of overblown self-promotion.
Not so for Toledo Bend.[…]
Bassmaster Elite Series pro Mark Menendez likes tempting pre-spawn bass with a Strike King Series 3 crankbait or a ¾-ounce Strike King Scorcher spinnerbait.[…]
News reports yesterday showed a Toledo Bend that was swollen to record levels and belching more water through the dam than flows over Niagra Falls. Many anglers figured the torrential rains would ruin the famed bass fishing — at least until the massive reservoir settled down.[…]
When Acadiana Bass Club members Eric Arnold and Brannon Mire weighed-in Saturday for the first day of their club’s two-day tournament, they were five fish short of their two-man limit. Their total was only about 15 pounds, leaving them a whopping 14-pounds out of the lead.[…]
Toledo Bend has become the epicenter of big-bass hunters from across the country, pumping out dozens of super-sized lunkers annually over the past few years.[…]
Mid-May will see some of the nation’s top bass anglers descend upon the nation’s top-rated bass lake for the Bassmaster Elite Series.[…]
Early last week there was a major wave of bass that moved into Toledo Bend’s shallows to spawn, but the cool front that passed through the area a few days later pushed most of the fish back into deeper water.[…]
I arrived at Toledo Bend on Friday ready to do battle with some of the huge bass for which the reservoir has become known. Unfortunately, I never got tuned in.[…]
Hay grass is fairly new to Toledo Bend, but over the past couple of years it’s really become one of the top ways to land quality fish.[…]