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.[…]
May 2013
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.[…]
Freshwater Fishing
Bluegills
This feisty species is definitely the backbone of the bream fishery. It gets big — for a bream —at 10 inches, and during its summer-long spawning season forms dense beds of nests.[…]
Inshore Fishing
Proper fishing tackling for speckled trout
Capt. Anthony Randazzo fishes most of his trout artificials on a 7-foot, 2-inch medium Shimano Crucial graphite rod with an extra-fast tip.[…]
Inshore Fishing
Tips for boating speckled trout
Capt. Anthony Randazzo subduing a hooked trout is all a matter of technique.[…]
Freshwater Fishing
A better anchor
Although Lyle Soileau definitely uses a standard anchor, he also has another tool to help hold his pontoon boat in place.[…]
Freshwater Fishing
Never cut an anchor loose again
Bream will stack up where tangles of cover is scattered along the lake bottom, and that means anchoring often results in anchor hang-ups.
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Freshwater Fishing
West Monroe tackle shop specializes in white perch tackle and information
When I moved up to Monroe to attend college after I got out of the Army, I immediately looked up tackle shops in the phone book.[…]
Inshore Fishing
Empire fishing options abound when winds are light or out of the east
During two of the last three fishing seasons, the Empire area has been the launch pad for a delightful little trip to hell.[…]
Freshwater Fishing
Looking for Toledo Bend bream in all the right places
Toledo Bend is vast, so there are myriad areas in which to look for bream beds.[…]