Bass Fishing
Lacassine Pool bass genetics
Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries’ Eric Shanks said that, although affected by the drought of 2010-11, bass stocks appear to be rebounding quickly.[…]
March 2015
Freshwater Fishing
Duck Commander’s No. 1 crappie tip
Don’t be hard headed — that’s Jay Stone’s No. 1 crappie tip.[…]
Fishing
Pro-Drive X Series Boats
Pro-Drive builds boats and motors to be used as a unit. The Pro-Drive team of designers and builders all use shallow-water boats and drives for their hunting and fishing adventures, so they’ve learned from experience what works and what doesn’t.[…]
Bass Fishing
Push poles a necessity at Lacassine Pool
Lacassine Pool has much to owe to its coontail, hydrilla, water lilies, alligator grass and maidencane that offers plenty of cover in which bass can hide.[…]
Freshwater Fishing
Duck Commander crappie poles no gimmick
Late last year, the Duck Commander crew and popular jig pole manufacturer B’n’M got together to develop and market a whole new line of crappie fishing poles.[…]
Bass Fishing
Lacassine Pool fishing regulations
The daily creel limit for bass is 10 per day with no length limit.
However, a regulation enacted in 2014 prohibited anglers from staying overnight on roads entering Lacassine Pool, manager Richard Meyers.[…]
Freshwater Fishing
Top catfishing baits
More catfish have been caught with night crawlers than any other bait, and that probably will always be the case.[…]
Inshore Fishing
Target structure for Venice trout
Speckled trout in Venice are no different than those elsewhere in one important way: They often concentrate on any bottom discontinuity that causes water currents to break, even if only ever so slightly.[…]
Freshwater Fishing
Blue catfish more tolerant of salinities than channel cats
Along Atchafalaya Bay, where my spouse and I fish, there are higher rates of salinity in the early spring. […]
Bass Fishing
Tackle tips for bass fishing in grass
FLW Pro JT Kenney likes a bladed swim jig around prespawn grass, but if the fish aren’t fully committed — maybe because of post-frontal blues — he finds himself missing a lot of short strikes.[…]
Columns
Was the 2014 deer season another good one?
The 2014-15 deer season is history and now it is time to clean up the deer camp, take care of deer stands, wash the ATVs and trucks, measure the racks at the upcoming Sportsman Show and evaluate the deer harvest data to see what is right or wrong with your deer management program.[…]
Columns
Bream basics
This month’s topic comes courtesy of Gerald King, an Alexandria resident who enjoys pursuing those pesky sunfish otherwise known to frequent readers of this column as gobbules. […]
Ask Captain Paul
Getting the correct datum is important
Dear Capt. Paul:
In several of your articles I have read, you mentioned that the GPS coordinates were in NAD 27. I have a Garmin mapping program and in the properties are 11 NAD 27 settings. Would you be referring to NAD 27 Central?[…]
Fishing
WX TIDE
The WX TIDE is equipped with Wiley X’s patented removable and breathable Facial Cavity™ seal which blocks out wind and light for enhanced polarization.[…]
Bass Fishing
Veggie variables — How to fish for prespawn bass
Grass equals bass — yep, we got that. But getting to know the specific makeup of vegetation is essential, especially during the early spring before the it grows tall and thick. […]
Fishing
G. Loomis E6X rod series
The E6X rod series from G. Loomis includes 30 casting and spinning rods, offered in both technique specific models with exacting actions, and ‘Classic’ models with easy to cast, more forgiving actions for use with a variety of lures.[…]