Features from March 2022
- Dave Moreland gives his opinion on what is the hardest to pursue; a heavy-rack mature buck or a trophy longbeard turkey.
- Four League Bay, near the mouth of the Atchafalaya River, has become one of Capt. Lloyd Landry’s favorite places to fish.
- Glynn Harris, a resident of Vienna, does weekly radio shows and writes newspaper columns and features for magazines.
- Fishing, camping, hiking, kayaking and more is on the list for visitors to Chemin-A-Haut State Park and Lake D’Arbonne State Park.
- Not only is it important that you take care of your minnows, it’s also good to know you are making the best use of them to catch crappie.
- Southeast Louisiana is always impacted in March by increased river water flows. So here’s how to put have speckled trout success.
- Artificial habitat differs from natural brushtops and fish attractors in several ways, but the artificial units will last forever.
- Ray Miller has been fishing the Tchefuncte River for the past 20 years and has transformed his ability to catch bream into a fine art.
Columns - March 2022
- The annual run between February and late April is the boat-buying season, a time when dealers across the country run specials.
- A group of family members and friends headed out for a long weekend of tent camping and fishing on a secluded hump in the Atchafalaya Basin.
- Mike LaFleur of Baton Rouge went from fishing school to schooling fishermen. At 80 years old, he remains an avid kayak fly fisherman.
- Arbogast hit a bass fishing home run when it marketed the Hula Popper 2.0, a spittin’ image of the G760 model of the original Hula Popper.
- Rabbit meat has a clean mild flavor, can be used in a multitude of dishes, and is great game meat to introduce to the picky eater.
- You can train your hunting dog yourself or send the dog to a professional trainer. We’ll take a look at both.
- Ladyfish are long, cylindrical shaped fish that are found along inshore waters along the Atlantic seaboard and the Gulf of Mexico.
Outdoor Updates - March 2022
- Gordon Sorey finally took down a 9-point trophy buck that survived being grazed by an arrow and creased by a bullet in Richland Parish.
- Bubba Wiley took a trophy 11-point buck on Jan. 10, 2022 on property owned by family members in Catahoula Parish.
- The Despino Tire Children’s Miracle Network Bass Tournament will be held at Toledo Bend on March 13, 2022.
- Graham Newton, a seventh grader in Bunkie, killed a trophy buck on a hunt with his grandfather in Avoyelles Parish.
- Elite professional bass anglers from around the country took part in grueling fishing on three very different north Louisiana lakes.
- The annual Big Bass Rodeo and “Fishtival” in New Orleans City Park will be held on Saturday, March 26, 2022.
- High school student Tommy Suggs downed a trophy 10-point buck on family land in Catahoula Parish on Jan. 15.
- Cody Holmes was hunting on family land in East Feliciana Parish when he shot a big buck three times on Jan. 2.
- Ashton Corcoran nailed this 260-pound wild hog while he was deer hunting in Washington Parish this season.
Hot Spots - March 2022
- Crappie can be found from the edges of deep creeks and humps all the way up to the cypress and flats around Lake Claiborne this month.
- Mike Herrmann likes the areas off Delacroix’s Twin Pipelines and all around Lake Amedee for speckled trout and redfish this month.
- Fishermen like Brooks Amy make the most of weather conditions during March to catch redfish in the Vermilion Bay area out of Cypremort Point.
- March and April should be a banner period for getting 10-plus-pound bass on the business end of your fishing line at Toledo Bend.
- Things are lining up for this to be the best March for speckled trout we have had in the past handful of years on Sabine Lake.
Field Notes - March 2022
- Once you clean and fillet fish, it’s important to still keep them cold and sealed waiting for the fryer, broiler or grill.
- The variety of sizes and natural colors of the Gilly just add to its versatile applications for bass anglers.
- After being named a high school bass fishing All-American, Cade Fortenberry continues to add to his accomplishments at Nicholls State.