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July 20, 2025
/Lake Martin

Lake Martin

Big Bass

Firefighter’s Lake Martin fishing trip yields 11.1-pound largemouth

March 17, 2022 Jason Thornton

Lafayette City firefighter Brandon Kidder was fishing on March 7 at Lake Martin when he hooked a bass weighing 11.1 pounds.[…]

Freshwater Fishing

External problems threaten Lake Martin access 

April 19, 2020 Nick Vaccaro

Lake Martin has been widely touted as a fishing mecca, yet plagued with border and access feuds that have recently escalated to new heights.[…]

Bass Fishing

Lake Martin in a nutshell

April 15, 2018 Jerald Horst

As lakes go, Lake Martin isn’t a big one, covering only 800 acres. What is called the lake today was formed in 1952 by the building of a ring levee around a low cypress swamp.[…]

Bass Fishing

Lake Martin really is for the birds

April 15, 2018 Jerald Horst

Even a die-hard fisherman like Butch Ridgedell quickly admits that Lake Martin is about more than fishing.[…]

Bass Fishing

Gators, birds and bass

April 1, 2018 Jerald Horst

Lake Martin is for the birds.

Or so some say — mostly folks with expensive binoculars and life lists of birds they have spotted. […]

Freshwater Fishing

LDWF schedules drawdown on Lake Martin beginning Sept. 6

July 1, 2016 From News Reports

The Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries has scheduled a drawdown to control nuisance aquatic vegetation in Lake Martin on Sept. 6, according to a news release.[…]

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