Bass Fishing
Heavy metal — Go big to force bass to bite
In 1989, the U.S. military surrounded General Manuel Noriega, who was holed up in the papal nuncio’s residence (the Vatican equivalent of an embassy) in Panama City.[…]
Year: 2017
Crappie/Bream
Cold Caney crappie — Tips to catch Caney Lake’s slabs
Caney Lake grass beds return and foster hordes of big black crappie. And angler Jeff Glover tells you how to catch your share.[…]
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Plastic blast — How two trout masters fish soft-plastic baits
The quest for the perfect speckled trout fishing lure never seems to end. In the early 1970s, when I broke into the fishery, it was dominated by lead-headed shad rigs, Mr. Champ spoons, Bingos, Plugging Shorty Shrimp, and MirrOlures. […]
Columns
This fly has panfish scared silli
Little is known about fly fishing before Dame Juliana Berner’s book “A Treatise of Fishing with an Angle” written in 1696. […]
Columns
The last crossing
The bottoms of my knee boots weren’t gripping the top of the sunken log very well, and I would occasionally slide as I inched my way across the slough. Fortunately, I had stick poles in each hand to help with balance.[…]
Columns
Give yourself the shaft
With all of the annual hype and focus on the latest and greatest compound bows, the arrows they shoot are often an afterthought. In reality, the arrow is just as important, if not more, than the bow it is shot from. […]
Ask Captain Paul
Saline WMA is now Dewey Wills
Dear Capt. Paul:
I know that this in not an entirely GPS question, but I have been impressed with your findings of different reader-requested hunting and fishing locations. I hope that you can assist me.[…]
Columns
LDWF pick appears to be positive change
We all knew it was coming. In fact, most folks believed it was way past time when it finally happened.[…]
Contents
Cover: February 2017
This month marks the height of crappie fishing, and the Crappie Psychic knows how to stack your ice chest with slabs.[…]
Deer Hunting
Suspect arrested for allegedly hunting from vehicle in Concordia Parish
Agents with the Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries arrested a 46-year-old Waterproof man for allegedly hunting from his pickup truck on a Mississippi River levee road in Concordia Parish.[…]
Deer of the Year
172-inch buck goes down in Caddo Parish
Angie Parker is a bowhunter at heart, but her decision to spend a little quality time with her father on a rifle hunt last November in Caddo Parish resulted in her biggest deer ever — a 170-class buck of a lifetime. […]
News Breaker
State record blackfin tuna caught out of Venice
Capt. Joey Davis knew something was up last Friday when one of his clients was battling a blackfin tuna 18 miles out of Venice’s Pass a Loutre.[…]
Freshwater Fishing
Two Avoyelles Parish men busted for allegedly gill-netting crappie
Enforcement agents with the Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries cited two Avoyelles Parish men for taking gamefish illegally after they allegedly witnessed them offloading fish caught in gill nets in an area of Old River near Vick, according to a news release.[…]
Inshore Fishing
Roadside reds
It only happens when the weather gets really cold, like in the lower 30s, which doesn’t happen very often down here in southeastern Louisiana.[…]
Columns
Smoked meat goes with seafood
For the uninitiated, Cajun cooking is the same wherever bonafide Cajuns exist.
But as a born and bred Cajun, Tony Soileau knows better. The 47-year-old dentist lives in Lafayette now, but he was raised in Pine Prairie in Evangeline Parish.[…]
Bass Fishing
Bring on the bass
This is the month anyone who has bass-fishing experience on Toledo Bend has been waiting for through several months of a so-so fall and winter.[…]