Bass Fishing
Gators, birds and bass
Lake Martin is for the birds.
Or so some say — mostly folks with expensive binoculars and life lists of birds they have spotted. […]
South Central LA
Redfish
Greg Hackney goes Bow Fishing for Redfish
This week’s episode of Sportsman TV might have you wanting to trade in your rod and reel for a bow and arrow. Host Greg Hackney along with Capt. Marty Lacoste and Bubba Watkins from GatorTail got on board with Capt. Terry Brown of Scales and Tails bow fishing for a night of intense arrow slinging action in Dularge, Louisiana.[…]
Crappie/Bream
Score big with Henderson Lake sac-a-lait
If anglers want to catch sac-a-lait in March at Henderson Lake, they should go to the borrow pits along the East Atchafalaya Basin Protection Levee.[…]
Bass Fishing
Keys to False River spawning bass
False River hasn’t been on anyone’s radar for years, since it was dropped from the state Quality Lakes system in the wake of siltation that wrecked what once was a legendary fishery.[…]
Bass Fishing
Spawn down south
The stained waters of South Louisiana are packed with bass. Use these tips from bass pros who grew up down south to catch more lunkers.[…]
Events & Announcements
$5,500 reward offered for illegally killed St. Mary Parish black bears
Officials are offering a $5,500 reward for information leading to the arrest and conviction of the person or persons who shot two adult male black bears in early February south of Franklin.[…]
News Breaker
Huge bobcat goes down Feb. 5
Troy Borill has been a man on a mission for about the last five years or so, actively hunting predators in Acadia Parish that impact deer and their habitat like wild hogs, coyotes and bobcats. […]
Crappie/Bream
Sac-a-lait shine this month out of Morgan City
Like many other sac-a-lait fishermen, Bill McCarty is ready to make a well-placed cast, set the hook and pull in slab after slab when February rolls around in South Central Louisiana.[…]
News Breaker
Hunter shoots rare white-headed mallard drake
On Jan. 16, Brock Baudoin of New Iberia took friend Brennan Hebert duck hunting at Wax Lake Outlet just before Cajun country was about to enter into the grips of frigid Arctic temperatures. […]
Field Notes
Make Gulp “jerky” for longer lasting lures
Berkley Gulp products have certainly earned a spot in my tackle box.[…]
Bass Fishing
Three patterns to catch False River bass
False River in Pointe Coupee Parish was once one of the premier fisheries in the state, part of the Quality Lakes system stocked with Florida-strain bass. And then in the late 1990s, things just fell apart — siltation and water clarity suffered, and the fishery became a shade of its former glory.[…]
Big Bass
Bayou Sorrel pond gives up 12-pound lunker bass
Dequian Jackson hasn’t been bass fishing all that long, but the 20-year-old reeled in a true lunker largemouth earlier this month from a public pond in Bayou Sorrel and experienced a fight most veteran anglers likely will never get to feel in their lifetimes.[…]
Deer Hunting
Public land along the coast
• Atchafalaya Delta Wildlife Management Area
This 137,000-acre tract of public land lies at the mouth of the Atchafalaya River and Wax Lake Outlet.[…]
Bass Fishing
Stephensville area producing quality bass
Want to get your hands on some nice-sized bass in December?[…]
Deer Hunting
Public Rambling: Atchafalaya Delta WMA yields nice 9-point
This deer season started out pretty good for us. My son-in-law Sam Allen took a doe on opening day, and I also arrowed a nice doe in October. But the sightings became few and very far between.[…]
Inshore Fishing
LDWF works multiple shrimping violations cases on Rockefeller
Enforcement agents with the Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries cited several recreational shrimpers for alleged violations on the Rockefeller Wildlife Refuge in Vermilion and Cameron parishes over the last several days.[…]