Bass Fishing
Muddy-water bass fishing tactics
Summertime rains can really ruin a fishing trip, especially when your lake of choice collects water from a large drainage area.[…]
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Fishing
6 ways to keep bait, fish alive longer
Whether the fish you’re trying to keep healthy are in the bait tank or in the livewell, there are several tricks that you can use to keep them alive — or at least tasty — during the summer, and they all boil down to one thing: oxygen levels.[…]
Columns
Matrix Mullet topwater lure hits the market
After almost 10 months of on-the-water experimentation — and countless hook changes, weight adjustments and buoyancy tweaks — Matrix Shad soft plastic paddletail creator Chas Champagne last week rolled out a brand new topwater lure called the Matrix Mullet that’s already developing quite a reputation for snagging big speckled trout.[…]
Freshwater Fishing
How to double up on crappie
With the exception of largemouth bass and catfish, guide Maynard Edwards of Lexington, N.C., has given up on using just one bait or lure at a time.[…]
Bass Fishing
Lure Review: LiveTarget’s sunfish
Apparently startled, certainly rattled, a small, injured bream swam to the surface, zigged and zagged in the scattered grass, jumped a little and landed sideways before continuing to move erratically until it settled back into the water to meet its fate.[…]
Inshore Fishing
Great kayak angling options in Buras
In a typical kayak, there just isn’t a whole lot of extra room for a vast array of pre-rigged rods, or multiple tackle boxes crammed with an insane variety of hooks, topwater lures, soft plastics and other items you never use but couldn’t pass up during your last visit down the fishing aisle.[…]
Fishing
Four cited for alleged illegal frogging last week in Rapides Parish
Agents with the Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries cited four men for alleged frogging violations just days before the season reopened on June 1.[…]
Columns
Don’t waste big bucks on small bucks
Last month, I mentioned that the average score of Mississippi bucks at the Louisiana Sportsman Show was 113 inches, while the average score of Louisiana bucks was 118.[…]
Field Notes
Top 6 tips for speck-fishing under birds
Scanning the horizon for flocks of diving birds feasting on shrimp is a tried and true method for locating schools of speckled trout across Louisiana’s coast.[…]
Columns
Some bream are bad eggs
Hybridization, the result of cross-breeding between two species, is rare in nature. Humans can manipulate the mating of animals to produce hybrids, but Mother Nature doesn’t like that kind of fooling around.[…]
Inshore Fishing
Epic photo shows specks in Grand Isle surf
Professional photographer Sarah Santiny never goes too far without her trusty camera, and her Memorial Day trip to the beach on Grand Isle was no exception.[…]
Inshore Fishing
Chunky specks loaded in popular summertime hotspots
Anglers live and die by decisions.
Sure, everyone is going to have a Plan A because maybe your buddy told you where the fish were biting the day before your trip — or maybe you read one of the 1,326 Facebook reports on people catching fish at that spot.[…]
Events & Announcements
$9,000 reward offered in Acadia Parish whooping crane shooting
Up to a $9,000 reward is being offered for information that leads to an arrest and conviction in the case of two endangered whooping cranes that were shot and killed just south of Rayne off of Highway 35 on May 20.[…]
Inshore Fishing
Three Houma men cited for alleged oyster violations
Agents on patrol with the Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries on Tuesday cited three men for alleged oyster violations near Bay Moncleus in Terrebonne Parish.[…]
Fishing
To Catch a STAR fish
It’s that time of year again, the Gulf Coast’s biggest fishing tournament is upon us…the CCA STAR.[…]
Inshore Fishing
Prairieville man cited for alleged charter guide violations
Enforcement agents with the Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries cited a 21-year-old Prairieville man last month for alleged charter guide license violations in Lafourche Parish.[…]