The historic flooding of the Sabine River, which today claimed a portion of Interstate 10 at the Texas state line, was inevitable when considering just how much water was released from Toledo Bend Reservoir last week.[…]
The importance of realistic, crawfish patterns is well known to Bassmaster Elite pros, and Brandon Palaniuk proved it on his way to finishing second in the 2013 Bassmaster Classic on Grand Lake in Oklahoma.[…]
Looking at the weather forecast for last Wednesday, Gonzales’ Brenen Hebert made a wise decision to move up his trip to Toledo Bend by one day.[…]
I have tried to fish the wacky rig. Honestly.
But it’s like watching paint dry. In the winter. At night.[…]
Just one day after the highest water levels ever recorded at Toledo Bend, Port Neches area anglers Austin Hebert, Sidney Shetley and Dave Gisselberg launched Friday morning on the reservoir’s south sider near the dam.[…]
Just two months after the Bonnet Carre Spillway opened — and poured fresh Mississippi River water into Lake Pontchartrain for about three weeks earlier this winter — the estuary faces yet another inundation of freshwater from rain-swollen rivers on the North Shore.[…]
Life goes on and in order for it to do so, babies must be made.[…]
Greg Hackney shares fishing tips on how to fish Louisiana in the winter.[…]
Arctic Ice
We put the Cool in Coolers[…]
News reports yesterday showed a Toledo Bend that was swollen to record levels and belching more water through the dam than flows over Niagra Falls. Many anglers figured the torrential rains would ruin the famed bass fishing — at least until the massive reservoir settled down.[…]
At the peak of yesterday’s historic high-water event at Toledo Bend Reservoir, long-time guide Jerry Thompson estimated the water level around mid-lake hit 175 feet.[…]
The 2016 turkey season is the next to the last season of the 2015-16 hunting season (the spring squirrel season is the last). […]
The middle of March can actually be an awesome time to target speckled trout on topwater lures and jerkbaits.[…]
Anglers used to driving on Elmer’s Island to partake in surf fishing for speckled trout later in the spring better be prepared to walk — access to the east side of the island will be restricted while active construction continues on the Caminada Headland Beach and Dune Restoration Project.[…]
Guide Joe Joslin has been fishing on the Toledo Bend reservoir for almost 40 years, but he’s never seen anything like the flooding the lake has experienced this week. […]
One of my favorite car commercials has a 5-year-old driving his Power Wheels toy car. His dad asks if he’d like to take a try with the bigger automobile. After giving it some thought, the kid realizes it’s too much to handle and responds “No, thanks. I can wait.”[…]