Crappie/Bream
8 tips for great bream fishing
Try out veteran angler Freddie McMullen’s tips for great bream fishing to up your success and fill that cooler with slab-sized sunfish. […]
May 2013
Columns
Shotgunning fun
An attorney friend who knows a little more about guns than I do about the dark side of the moon — but not much more — was wandering around a regional gun show, looking for I’m not sure what.
I think he had been caught up in all the furor and hype and just figured he needed another gun to go with his one revolver. […]
Fishing
You dropped WHAT overboard?
Shortly after handheld GPS units became small enough to fit in a pocket, I remember a fellow outdoor writer lamenting about losing his. He somehow dropped it as he stepped from a boat to a dock over water 30 feet deep. […]
Columns
Boating blunders
Wildlife enforcement agents in Louisiana are provided with an abundance of training related to boating. Instruction in boat operation, safety equipment, accident prevention and investigation will begin in the academy and continue throughout an agent’s career. […]
Columns
Lessons learned
As this article goes to press, the 2012-13 deer season is about three months in the rear view mirror. As they say, “It is time to re-load and re-mount.” […]
Columns
Make mine live
For most power boats, the use of live bait is such a given that livewells almost always come as standard equipment. Many don’t think that taking live bait along in a kayak is a viable option. […]
Freshwater Fishing
Freddie McMullen’s hot Black Bayou Lake bream-fishing tips
Catching bull bream is largely a matter of finding their spawning beds in the shallows near the lake edge. […]
Bass Fishing
Heavy handed
Similar to the jig approach, but tailored for reaching deeper into the slop, punching enables anglers to scare up some mean grass action. […]
Freshwater Fishing
Bream hybrids
Sunfish hybridize more than any other family of freshwater or saltwater fish. Often a successful day will yield 200 bream, and it’s a rare day when at least one hybrid between species isn’t in the bunch. […]
Bass Fishing
Guided through the grass
At the Bassmaster Classic in Tulsa, Okla., the Fan Expo saw TWA Sports introduce an interesting new product with strong potential to benefit anglers fishing grassy areas. […]
Freshwater Fishing
Change has come to Black Bayou Lake
Freddie McMullen, now a successful 51-year-old Monroe orthodontist, spent his formative years on Black Bayou Lake. […]
Freshwater Fishing
Black Bayou Lake is pretty as a postcard
Black Bayou Lake, the centerpiece of the Black Bayou Lake National Wildlife Refuge, is pretty as a postcard. […]
Freshwater Fishing
Kincaid Lake
Kincaid Lake is about 10 miles west of Alexandria south of Highway 28 West. It lies partially within Kisatchie National Forest. […]
Inshore Fishing
Houma Nation still going strong
Capt. Chad Billiot is a member of the United Houma Nation, a Native American tribe that counts more than 10,000 Americans among its members, according to the most-recent census. […]
Freshwater Fishing
The bream of Louisiana
The word “bream” (pronounced “brim”) is a Southernism. Our northern friends call them by their proper species name, or they lump them all together as sunfish — which sounds altogether too sissy-like. In the South, we talk about bull bream. […]
Freshwater Fishing
Chinquapins/Lake Runners
This bream, officially known as the redear sunfish, is named for the red-margined flap extending rearward from its gill cover. […]