February 19, 2019
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February 2019

Some days it is best to stay home and organize your gear. But if you choose your days carefully, you can find some excellent kayak fishing during February.
Inshore Fishing

It’s a secret in the kayak fishing world

Chris Holmes

February may be the best kept secret in kayak fishing. If you pick the right days and conditions, the fishing can be absolutely fantastic.
[…]

Try throwing big suspending baits such as Corky’s and Mirrodines for big fish near the bank.
Speckled Trout

Turner’s Bay reef is hot spot on Big Lake

Patrick Bonin

Capt. Nick Poe didn’t hesitate when asked about a wintertime speckled trout location on Big Lake within a short ride of the boat launch. […]

Mike “Pickle” Fontenot of Ville Platte holds one of the hawgs he has caught fishing Chicot Lake.
Bass Fishing

It’s hammer time on Chicot Lake

Don Shoopman

Chicot Lake’s bass — big and bigger — are ripe for the picking when the second month of the year rolls around. […]

Chunky largemouth bass like these are why Jeff Glover is high on Caney Lake’s February bass prospects.
Bass Fishing

New dynamics kick in at Caney Lake

Kinny Haddox

Chunky largemouth bass like these are why Jeff Glover is high on Caney Lake’s February bass prospects. […]

In addition to good numbers, Saline-Larto is producing more and more big crappie like these.
Crappie/Bream

Saline-Larto is a crappie hotspot

Kinny Haddox

In addition to good numbers, Saline-Larto is producing more and more big crappie. […]

Author Joel Masson shows off a sac-a-lait he caught from a cut off the Tchefuncte last spring.
Crappie/Bream

Find this pattern for Tchefuncte River sac-a-lait

Joel Masson

There’s no better tasting fish than sac-a-lait, and this month, the Tchefuncte River is typically full of them. […]

Planting and cultivating a buffer of thick trees or bushes around a popular feeding area for deer can give animals a little more security to venture into the picture during daylight hours.
Deer Hunting

Make deer feel more secure

Jeff Burleson

Deer hunters can improve their chances with a little buffering and protection around attractive sites on their properties. […]

Prespawn fish are moving and looking for food, so crankbaits allow you to effectively cover water to find the hot spots.
Bass Fishing

Crank up crankbaits for the prespawn

David A. Brown

Prespawn bass are moving and looking for food, so crankbaits allow you to effectively cover water to find the hot spots. […]

Bass Fishing

High water conditions at Toledo Bend

John Dean

Sight fishermen are licking their chops to get at bedding bass early in February at Toledo Bend. […]

Creature Feature

Crawfish: It’s what’s for dinner

Jerald Horst

The sheer numbers of crawfish in the Atchafalaya Basin is amazing, if only for the reason that Louisiana has the lowest number (39) of species of crawfish of all the southeastern states in the U.S. […]

Featured

American Fastbacks

louisianasportsman

If you’re looking for a loaded out Jeep Wrangler with tons of features — look no further than the American Fastbacks models at Miller’s RV in Baton Rouge. […]

Crappie/Bream

Is sac-a-lait spawn already on?

louisianasportsman

Warm January weather might have pushed South Louisiana’s tastiest panfish to move up early. […]

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Winter Crappie

  • Author Joel Masson shows off a sac-a-lait he caught from a cut off the Tchefuncte last spring.
    Find this pattern for Tchefuncte River sac-a-lait
  • D’Arbonne bridges are crappie magnets
  • Is sac-a-lait spawn already on?
  • Des Allemands sac-a-lait staging for spawn
  • ‘Stone’ cold crappie heating up Caney Lake

News Breakers

  • Cheniere Lake was basically emptied when flooding in 2016 washed away the bridge and spillway that impounded the 3,600-acre lake.
    State pledges to help repair, fill Cheniere Lake
  • Six sets of antlers seized by LDWF agents
  • Two Belle Chasse residents arrested by agents on patrol
  • The Third Circuit Court of Appeals ruled on Dec. 28, 2018 in favor of landowners, meaning public access to legendary Catahoula Lake could be in jeopardy.
    Public access to Catahoula Lake in jeopardy
  • Tensas Parish deer hunters removed gear from their campers as flood waters rose in January. Even mobile camps like these got flooded because before water rose quickly, and roads went under and were closed.
    Wintertime flooding impacts North Louisiana hunting and fishing

New in Pictures

  • Cheniere Lake was basically emptied when flooding in 2016 washed away the bridge and spillway that impounded the 3,600-acre lake.
  • The Third Circuit Court of Appeals ruled on Dec. 28, 2018 in favor of landowners, meaning public access to legendary Catahoula Lake could be in jeopardy.
  • Tensas Parish deer hunters removed gear from their campers as flood waters rose in January. Even mobile camps like these got flooded because before water rose quickly, and roads went under and were closed.
  • Josh Goins founded the Flyway Federation in 2018 to bring about change in the flyways and get more birds down to Louisiana.
  • Louisiana duck hunters could be looking at a four-teal limit next September, if a proposal made at January’s meeting of the Wildlife and Fisheries Commission is ultimately approved in April.
  • This evidence photo from the LDWF shows the illegally taken buck shot allegedly shot by Robert M. Harris Jr. on Jan. 19 in Tensas Parish.
  • During a mild, wet winter, many species of waterfowl stay as far north as habitat conditions allow.

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