Bass Fishing
Larto’s Other Fish
Twenty-five miles south of Jonesville, Larto Lake is tucked into some of the best backwater fishing in the state. Late winter bass action on Larto, with its oxbow shape, is a jig fisherman’s paradise.[…]
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Bass Fishing
Great Expectations
On the morning of March 10, anglers with great expectations will launch on either side at Doiron’s Landing in Stephensville hoping to land a heavy enough bag of bass to make the top 20 cut to fish the second day of the Louisiana Sportsman Open Bass Championship presented by Skeeter and Yamaha.[…]
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Early Trestle Trout
The best way to have a fishing hole all to yourself is to fish it when nobody else is there. If that makes me sound like Captain Obvious, so be it. Sometimes the best advice is the simplest advice.[…]
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Have Knife, Will Travel
The rugged man flipped a business card to the fishermen at the International Grand Isle Tarpon Rodeo. It displayed a bowie knife in its center and read Slimeslingers Professional Fish Cleaning: Willing to Travel.[…]
Bass Fishing
Cover: February 2012-Fishing
Louisiana will shine this month as the pros descend on the Red River for the Bassmaster Classic.[…]
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2012 Turkey Season Forecast
Nov. 19 was the opening day of the deer gun season in Area 1, and I was sitting in my big ladder stand overlooking a long planted strip at Camp David that I have named the Wildlife Tram.[…]
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Break the Rules, Catch More Fish
If I were a betting man, I’d be willing to bet that when Capt.Charlie Thomason was a kid, he was always in trouble. I picture him as the mischievous type, cutting up in class, constantly talking and generally disruptive.[…]
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Shallow Rig Slaughter
The whoops, roars and racket on Doc’s balcony for the post-Endymion party rattled the very tray as I carried the bowl of fresh-caught sheepshead ceviche to the serving table from the kitchen.[…]
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Cover: February 2012
Bring some big Rat-L-Traps to the Causeway this month, and you won’t go home empty handed.[…]
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Red Storm
It is your classic good-news/bad-news tale. The good news is there are more red snapper around the oil rigs in the northern Gulf of Mexico today than ever before, and they are much bigger than they have ever been.[…]
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Cover: January 2012
Lincoln Parish deer measures 161 7/8 inches Boone & Crockett.[…]
Bass Fishing
Crankbait Campaign Trail
This one leans to the left; that one goes far right. Here’s one that keeps a centrist course.[…]
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Permanent Plots
In my lifetime, I have only known the Delta to be an expanse of rowed-up dirt that is planted annually with various crops that feed and clothe the world. Deltans can look across a field that continues for miles with no apparent end.[…]
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Hunting with Your Mouth Full
With the exception of what comes from wildlife and wild fisheries, almost everything the Earth’s peoples eat and wear comes from agriculture. The United States is truly a land of plenty, where real hunger isn’t felt. Hunters, like other Americans, have full mouths and bellies.[…]
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Belated Bucks
In the northwest corner of Louisiana, Red River bass fishing guide Russ McVey sits in a box stand overlooking a pipeline with his daughter Madison about to run out of iPod battery. They hope a buck trying to recover from the rut wants to grab a few kernels of corn.[…]
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Bayou Bienvenue is BACK!
Everybody wondered if the fishing action around Bayou Bienvenue could ever recover. Like so many other fishing areas in Southeast Louisiana, Bayou Bienvenue was adversely affected by the BP oil spill and the opening of the Bonnet Carre spillway.[…]