Bass Fishing
Cool off with ‘bass on the rocks’
The hot summer weather got you down? Well, why not cool off with some bass on the rocks — Red River south style. […]
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Bass Fishing
Tip of the day
“A push pole is an absolute must to fish here,” Charlie King half-grimaced and half-grinned. […]
Bass Fishing
Four seasons of the Red
The Red River Waterway system offers a huge array of bass habitats, including stump fields, backwater lakes, the original river’s banks, rock piles, log jams, reeds (cut grass), oxbow ridges and shorelines, as well as lily pad fields that have bounced back after the floods. […]
Bass Fishing
Off limits
Pools No. 5 and 4 are large complex areas because a variety of habitats and properties were flooded by the 7- to 8-foot rise in water levels that followed damming. The two pools are where Charlie King focuses his Red River guiding efforts, and also where Trent Toups does much of his personal bass fishing. […]
Bass Fishing
The big challenge on the Red
The Red River system has lots of bass —and it has big bass. Catching fish isn’t the biggest challenge that visiting anglers face. It’s navigation. […]
Bass Fishing
Seeing red
Louisiana’s Red River used to be a mud hole.
Or at least, something close to it. […]
Bass Fishing
Schools of thought
The siren song of schooling bass has lured many an unsuspecting angler to spend the rest of his days wondering what the heck just happened. […]
Bass Fishing
Head to the banks for Caney Lake bass
Curtis Simpson has one piece of advice for any bass angler wanting to catch a big largemouth or a big stringer this month — head to the banks at Caney Lake in Jackson Parish. […]
Crappie/Bream
Search salvinia for springtime crappie
Spring crappie techniques are generally pretty standard — single-poling, jigging trees, spider-rigging and the like. But sometimes you can meld crappie methods with a bit of a bass approach and pick up a mess of crappie faster than you imagined. […]
Bass Fishing
The birth of a lure
Lots of anglers can claim tournament wins, but few can claim a lure invention.
Keith Poche can. […]
Bass Fishing
How to properly rig a Keith Poche Power Spinner
Before putting the worm on a hook, Keith Poche uses his teeth to bite about ¼-inch of plastic off of the worm’s tail (the smaller end). Then he simply screws the corkscrew on the Keith Poche (KP) Power Spinner into the bitten end of the worm. […]
Big Bass
Big 10 anchors another 30-pound-plus stringer for Caney
If Casey Allen had been fishing a tournament on Caney Lake last Friday, on he and his fishing partner likely would have walked away with a nice prize. Their top five fish weighed 33 pounds — a giant bag anchored by a huge 10.45-pound lunker largemouth. […]
Big Bass
Another 30-pound-plus stringer for Caney Lake
If Casey Allen had been fishing a tournament on Caney Lake last Friday, on he and his fishing partner likely would have walked away with a nice prize. Their top five fish weighed 33 pounds — a giant bag anchored by a huge 10.45-pound lunker largemouth. […]
Big Bass
Caney Lake gives up monster 12-pounder
The 15- to 19-inch slot limit for bass on Caney Lake was only recently removed, but Jacob Hearne wouldn’t have had to worry about it last week, anyway. […]
Bass Fishing
Caney Lake gives up 36-pound stringer
In the span of about 30 minutes on a dreary, drizzly morning last Monday on Caney Lake, Hunter Freeman and Corey Harris experienced a bite so epic most bass anglers’ wildest dreams probably wouldn’t even come close to what actually happened out on the water. […]
Bass Fishing
‘Bed’time stories on Caney lake
Tyler Stewart graduated from college, finished his apprenticeship and is taking his skills into the workplace. And the point of this? That can help you catch more fish. […]