Bass Fishing
How to catch bass with lockjaw
The coldest month of the year is here, but you still want to go out and catch some bass. The question is: How?[…]
Statewide LA
Bass Fishing
Other Ned Rig options
While the Z-Man Finesse TRDs are made specifically to be used with the Ned Rig, there are a couple of other options:[…]
News Breaker
Treat squirrels with more respect, you’ll kill more
“I don’t understand it. I see plenty of squirrels when I’m deer hunting, but once deer season is over and I go after squirrels, they just don’t seem to be around.” […]
News Breaker
Flock of ducks apparently struck by lightning in Avoyelles Parish Monday morning
After surviving the 2015-16 hunting season, a flock of ducks in Avoyelles Parish was apparently taken out by a most unlikely source — a lightning strike during severe weather that rumbled through the area Monday morning.[…]
Inshore Fishing
Two cited for possessing 33 redfish in Port Sulphur
Agents with the Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries busted two men for allegedly being over their redfish limit in Port Sulphur on Feb. 11, according to a news release.[…]
Offshore Fishing
Video: Learn how to fillet, cook ‘bay snapper’
Watch sheepshead filleting and cooking technique on Sportsman TV’s episode Humberto’s Trashcan Slam, which can be found here.[…]
Freshwater Fishing
Tippets
According to scientists at the National Weather Service, large El Nino events create colder-than-normal weather in the months of February and March. If that prediction holds true, it’s good news for “rainbeaux trout” anglers.[…]
Deer Hunting
Time to be thinking about turkeys
Turkeys at our property in East Feliciana were regular visitors during the deer season, and as spring approaches they will hopefully begin to be more frequent in the green patches.[…]
Columns
The Egret Wedgetail Eel
When Cowboy Outdoors decided to make a big, wedge-tailed soft-plastic artificial lure strictly a saltwater bait, speckled trout fishermen along the country’s coast benefitted big time.[…]
Deer of the Year
Lake Providence hunter arrows 155-inch ‘Kickstand buck’ in East Carroll Parish
When a barking dog disrupted Jim Lensing’s morning deer hunt on Jan. 23 in Lake Providence, he decided that afternoon to move to a lock-on stand overlooking an old pecan orchard that he’d only hunted a few times this season.[…]
Columns
What to do about the ‘carry-over’
Unseasonably warm temperatures continued into December; in fact a new record high was set in the Baton Rouge area around the middle of the month.[…]
News Breaker
West Monroe doc documents 2015-16 duck season with video
When Hampton Rutland heads out for a duck hunt, he has to take along a lot more than just his decoys, shotgun, shells and hunting bag.[…]
Deer of the Year
Lockport hunter arrows 165-inch ‘Bullwinkle buck’ on Tensas River NWR
When Darrel Dorsey pulled the trigger on his crossbow last month, he definitely wasn’t expecting the reaction he got from a giant 9-point on Tensas River National Wildlife Refuge in Madison Parish.[…]
General
Some roads reopened on Dewey Wills WMA
The Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries has reopened some roads in the Dewey W. Wills Wildlife Management Area that were previously closed due to flooding, according to a news release.[…]
Deer Hunting
West Monroe man cited for deer tagging violations
A 67-year-old West Monroe man was cited for alleged deer tagging violations last week in Lincoln Parish.[…]
Columns
Euro-nymphing for bream?
Recently I read where efforts are being undertaken to restore False River to its former glory. This deepwater oxbow lake near New Roads once ranked among the best lakes in the country for bass and sunfish. […]