Features from June 2022
- Fishing the Union Oilfield Canals located east of Lake Palourde and southeast of Grassy Lake for bluegills, chinquapins and longear sunfish.
- Most people only rarely venture offshore, so maximize the experience by staying prepared and flexible. Try different things.
- People can fish in the Gulf of Mexico, the rivers, around the islands, off the beaches and in the bays for many different species.
- Joe Macaluso is most widely known as the veteran outdoors editor of the Baton Rouge Morning Advocate. He has won numerous awards.
- Summer is here and you can partake in the fishing and camping at two facilities, Jimmie Davis State Park and Chicot State Park.
- Bears are the center of a growing controversy over crowding other wildlife out of their habitat, property destruction and human interaction.
- Eddie Toups of New Iberia learned how to fish waters in and around Vermilion Bay as a boy with some of Acadiana’s top saltwater fishermen.
- Logan Gautreaux was fishing the Bogue Falaya Creek just north of Covington when he caught a shadow bass for the first time.
Columns - June 2022
- No dyed-in-the-wool bass fisherman ever tells anyone — certainly not his significant other — about how much they spend on the pursuit of bass.
- Carrying shrimp in a kayak takes a little planning to keep them alive and kicking throughout the day’s speckled trout fishing.
- The purpose of this column is to help bring attention to the black bear problem. There are solutions and we have to find them.
- The blue marlin is one of the most highly sought after gamefish on the planet. They can reach great size, and their meat is excellent.
- The problems surrounding wild pigs in Louisiana is nothing new. But these problematic critters can be quite the treat around the dinner table.
- Todd Masson, Capt. Justin Bowles and television show host Kevin Ford made a trip to the Chandeleur Islands to fish for speckled trout.
- In a world filled with bait manufacturers, Funkbuster Baits has found its niche with spinnerbaits, buzz baits and bladed jigs.
Outdoor Updates - June 2022
- Hunter Hamilton played hooky from school on May 2 and ended up catching a 12.63-pound bass at Bussey Brake.
- Bowie Outfitters will have a big inventory on a lot of stuff at the Louisiana Sportsman Show this year, including hunting items.
- Charter captains are fighting so they can participate in a state-sponsored insurance fund that serves the commercial fishing industry.
- It was Jan. 25, 2022. It had …
- The Louisiana Sportsman Show and Festival is a unique event, but there’s more than just sporting goods and outdoor equipment.
- Jeremy Hinton of Bastrop was fishing Bussey Brake on May 9 when he tossed a June Bug tube style creature bait and landed a 11.10-pound bass.
- The Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries wants to make it easier for the state to collect restitution fines.
- Shaston Isbell lost his cell phone on April 22 at Toledo Bend Reservoir – and he didn’t care. He had hooked a 10.26-pound bass.
- The Louisiana Sportsman Show and …
- A total of 767 of the top retrievers participated in the Hunting Retriever Club International Spring Grand in Vidalia and Natchez, Miss.
- Brett Plummer landed a 31.6 pound tripletail that will be No. 8 in the state while with Capt. Rich McCloskey out of Venice on April 25.
- The numbers show this was the best turkey hunting season Louisiana has ever had since harvest reporting began in 2009.
Hot Spots - June 2022
- When the winds lay down in June, you can fish anywhere in the Bay on the north side of Grand Isle and find speckled trout.
- The weather may be hot, but that means perfect conditions for trolling up and down the Louisiana jetties out of Sabine Pass.
- The bass fishing around Chef Pass has exploded in the past few years, and avid angler Andre Thomas targets them a lot in June.
- Bayou Bartholomew Lake, the area commonly called “The Cutoff,” is a great summer spot if you are chasing largemouth bass.
- Bill McCarty, a bona fide specialist at catching panfish and catfish in the Bayou Black area, knows June is the right time to fish there.
- Watching The Weather Channel has given John Dean hope for bass fishing the rest of the spring and early summer at Toledo Bend.
Field Notes - June 2022
- The FIREDISC cooking system is as versatile as it is portable. It’s a grill, wok, fryer and steamer all in one. And it folds up small.
- Jim Dillard cashes checks with the Wobblehead in two ways — by selling them to other anglers and by using them at bass tournaments.
- Ian Carter, a Sterlington High School junior, has emerged as one of the most consistent bass anglers in the Sportsman’s Paradise.