Louisiana Sportsman

8 tips for great bream fishing

June 27, 2019 Jerald Horst

Try out veteran angler Freddie McMullen’s tips for great bream fishing to up your success and fill that cooler with slab-sized sunfish.[…]

Shotgunning fun

May 29, 2013 Gordon Hutchinson

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.[…]

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.[…]

Boating blunders

May 24, 2013 Keith LaCaze

A boat trailer winch is what holds the front of the boat securely to the trailer, and this should be checked regularly.[…]

Lessons learned

May 22, 2013 Bill Garbo

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.”[…]

Make mine live

May 20, 2013 Chris Holmes

Just as kayakers have adapted the many conveniences of their powered cousins, you are likely to find some type of live baitwell onboard.[…]

Freddie McMullen’s hot Black Bayou Lake bream-fishing tips

May 18, 2013 Jerald Horst

Catching bull bream is largely a matter of finding their spawning beds in the shallows near the lake edge.[…]

New fishing line could benefit crappie anglers

May 15, 2013 Chris Ginn

When folks spool up their reels with line before heading off to Lake D’Arbonne, they typically use anything from 4- to 10-pound test.[…]

Groving deep-hooked fish

May 15, 2013 Andy Crawford

Any slack in the line will allow fish to swallow the hook pretty deep. And the small mouths of bream can make it difficult to remove them.[…]

Louisiana Top Ten Speckled Trout (to July, 2012)

May 15, 2013 Chris Berzas

*Source: Louisiana Outdoor Writers Association[…]

Stumpknockers

May 15, 2013 Jerald Horst

This pretty little fish, properly known as a spotted sunfish, is quite often caught by bluegill fishermen who are fishing in sluggish streams, swamps and lowland lakes.[…]

Tippets

May 15, 2013 Catch Cormier

Speckled trout action should be gangbusters this month after a colder than normal spring. There was plenty of clear water in April and that favors topwater action.[…]

Hop to it

May 15, 2013 David A. Brown

Is there anything more dazzling, spectacular or spellbinding in the bass fishing world than a big mossback monster blowing up on a topwater frog?[…]

Sunperch

May 15, 2013 Jerald Horst

Fishermen call two species of bream “sunperch:” the longear sunfish and the dollar sunfish. Both are brilliantly jewel-like in coloration, plastered in red-oranges and yellows and covered with turquoise reticulations.[…]

Swimming plastics