Features from December 2018
These bass anglers spend every available minute together on the water, and they know there’s no place better for numbers of bites than Bayou Black.
The days of rainy fronts, chilly temperatures and dreaded bluebird skies are upon us. Here's how to catch bass after winter cold fronts pass in Louisiana.
Creating mock scrapes is a great way to provoke a big buck into shooting range — here’s how to get it done and put a big deer into your crosshairs.
Cooler water means more active fish — and with the crappie gathering up for prespawn feeding, you can bet that schooling competition will motivate the fish to eat whatever they can catch.
How to successfully fly fish for speckled trout in the deep holes off Highway 1 near Ground Isle. Use these tips and tactics, no matter how you fish.
Some tips on how to fish the ledges in the Geoghegan Canal to catch wintertime speckled trout near Lake Pontchartrain this month.
Dekes are probably the most important controllable factor for the average hunter. Here’s how to set ‘em up — so you can shoot ‘em down.
Although it’s not as prevalent as it once was, flooded timber still provides Louisiana’s hunters with plenty of opportunities to fill their straps.
How to make any necessary adjustments and change up your game plan to have success during the second half of Louisiana’s deer season.
Columns - December 2018
- Waypoints in the Point aux Chien area of the Pointe-aux-Chenes Wildlife Management Area.
- December's best kayak fishing destinations.
- Seven female kayakers on an overnight outing and kayak trip from the launch in Point Aux Chenes.
- Here are some gift ideas for the outdoorsman sure to bring a smile on Christmas morning.
- The results of two major kayak tournaments recently held in Southeast Louisiana.
- These gifts will put a smile on any fly fisherman’s face.
- THe new “Code-Red” VibraWedge spinnerbait will help you put more bass in the boat.
- Here are recipes for Seafood Stew and Broiled Fish.
- Deer season is in full swing, and it’s time to decide whether to drop the hammer.
- How to correct mechanical wheel lean on your compound bow.
- Permit, the glamor fish of tropical flats fishing, are more common in Louisiana than most people realize.
Outdoor Updates - December 2018
- Vacation time well spent for …
- They say good things come in threes — and Britt Buller proved it during a wild stretch of hunting late last month in Jeff Davis Parish.
- It is a well-known fact that on the football field, LSU and Ole Miss are mortal enemies: Very little love is lost between the two state-line rivals. Although it may be difficult to imagine, on Oct. 4 a former Ole Miss quarterback passed up the chance to down a huge 14-point buck, and handed the honor over to a former LSU QB. That Ole Miss guy is Bob Lane - and the LSU fellow is his 59-year-old dad, Robert Lane.
- Capt. Eric Pellegrin was in the midst of a hot trout bite Saturday morning near Wine Island Pass out of Cocodrie when a redfish crashed the party.
- Vicki Husted has already killed a couple of state record books, and she downed a nice 11-pointer on Oct. 24 that stretched the tape to 150 inches.
- Friday, Oct. 26 was the last day of primitive firearms season in Area 2 — and Kenneth Miller took full advantage of the final hours of that season.
Field Notes - December 2018
- We’ve spent all season perched in stands overlooking food plots and other well-known grazing areas, waiting for deer to get their feed on.
Hot Spots - December 2018
- A guide to catching bass in December at Toledo Bend.
- Bayou D'Arbonne offers up some great slab crappie this time of year.
- Some truly prime winter fishing waters are accessed by three Chalmette area launches.
- Morgan City outdoorsman Bill McCarty said docks are definitely the ticket this month for slab sac-a-lait.
- Grand Bayou is full of big, broad-shouldered crappie. And this is a grand month of the year to catch them.
- There are two bayous in the northeast corner of Lake Mechant that year after year consistently give up speckled trout in December.
- The fishing is fantastic and there’s action to be found all over the inside waters of Delacroix Island.
- The Lake Pontchartrain estuary provides a lot of different types of fishing, and that can be super advantageous this time of year.
- What to do if you want to catch fish in Lafitte in the month of December.
- The keys to having success with speckled trout at Shell Beach this month.