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April 28, 2026
/ 2018/December

Month: December 2018

Ted Tedesco’s biggest fly rod trout, a 27 ½-inch fish, came from the Forbidden Hole.
Features

Fly fishing tips and tactics

December 1, 2018 Jerald Horst

How to successfully fly fish for speckled trout in the deep holes off Highway 1 near Ground Isle. Use these tips and tactics, no matter how you fish.[…]

Deer Hunting

Prep for success in the second half of deer season

December 1, 2018 Kinny Haddox

How to make any necessary adjustments and change up your game plan to have success during the second half of Louisiana’s deer season.[…]

Roland Cortez holds up a stringer of mallards harvested late in the season. As winter progresses and Louisiana gets colder and rainier, more mallards make their way south.
Ducks

Hunting flooded timber for ducks in Louisiana

December 1, 2018 Jonathan Olivier

Although it’s not as prevalent as it once was, flooded timber still provides Louisiana’s hunters with plenty of opportunities to fill their straps.[…]

Mississippi pro Brock Mosley said a short mono leader is all that’s needed to provide a little stretch between braid and topwater lures like the Bill Lewis StutterStep.
Field Notes

Add a topwater ‘shock absorber’

December 1, 2018 Andy Crawford

How to create a shock absorber between the main braid and your lures.[…]

Adam (left) and Kurt Cook head to Bayou Black more often than not this time of year because they know the system holds numbers of bass that make for action-packed trips.
Bass Fishing

Bayou Black bass blast

December 1, 2018 Andy Crawford

These bass anglers spend every available minute together on the water, and they know there’s no place better for numbers of bites than Bayou Black.[…]

Ducks

How to set up your duck decoys

December 1, 2018 Jerald Horst

Dekes are probably the most important controllable factor for the average hunter. Here’s how to set ‘em up — so you can shoot ‘em down.[…]

Chunky slabs are suckers for shad shaped jig bodies.
Crappie/Bream

Crushing cold water crappie

December 1, 2018 David A. Brown

Cooler water means more active fish — and with the crappie gathering up for prespawn feeding, you can bet that schooling competition will motivate the fish to eat whatever they can catch.[…]

Matching the hatch is the first decoy rule for Creighton Ward. In the coastal waters of Plaquemines Parish, where mallards are almost nonexistent, he uses a mixture of species, including the pintails, gadwalls and wigeon shown here.
Ducks

Seven keys to duck hunting success

December 1, 2018 Jerald Horst

Decoy rules from Creighton Ward. […]

Deer Hunting

Creating mock scrapes to hunt white-tail deer

December 1, 2018 Chris Ginn

Creating mock scrapes is a great way to provoke a big buck into shooting range — here’s how to get it done and put a big deer into your crosshairs.[…]

The makers of TT’s Buck Wild Deer Scents out of Church Point believe fresh doe estrus is better at attracting wary bucks.
Deer Hunting

Church Point business bottles fresh doe-in-heat urine

December 1, 2018 Chris Ginn

Anglers would be the first to tell you that fresh is best. I mean, who wants to eat freezer-burned speckled trout fillets a year after they were caught?[…]

Features

How to catch wintertime speckled trout in the Geoghegan Canal

December 1, 2018 Chris Ginn

Some tips on how to fish the ledges in the Geoghegan Canal to catch wintertime speckled trout near Lake Pontchartrain this month.[…]

Bass Fishing

Fish Lake Bruin like a pro

December 1, 2018 Chris Ginn

One of the most fascinating things weekend bass tournament fishermen can witness is professional anglers picking apart their local lakes when major tournaments roll into town.

[…]

Bassmaster Elite Series pro Keith Combs said a topwater frog is a great all-around lure for shallow wintertime bass.
Bass Fishing

Top 3 wintertime bass baits

December 1, 2018 Andy Crawford

Nothing like topwater frog explosions Bassmaster Elite Series pro Keith Combs has to put fish in the boat year round, but he experiences what every other angler does during the summer: Tough fishing, when five[…]

After a long summer essentially devoid of trout, Capt. Marty LaCoste is looking forward to the annual fall invasion of specks.
Speckled Trout

The ‘best month of the year’ for Dularge trout fishing

December 1, 2018 Andy Crawford

No twitch, just slow steady retrieve is key for Dularge trout Mother Nature has been a true hag this year, baking South Louisiana with scalding temperatures well into October. But November ushers in what Dularge[…]

Deer Hunting

Cashing in on big bucks

December 1, 2018 Kinny Haddox

Pam Streeter works in the banking business, and she plays in the woods. But she’ll tell you the same principles for making “big bucks” apply in both worlds.[…]

Pam Streeter
Deer Hunting

Making the big bucks

December 1, 2018 Kinny Haddox

The past several seasons, big buck contests and social media posts have exploded with impressive photos of true trophy bucks, more than most anyone can remember in the recent past. […]

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