As evidenced this spring, Toledo Bend’s 185,000 acres are home to an untold number of lunker largemouth bass that roam throughout the reservoir.[…]
This month offers great freshwater fishing and excellent marsh redfish action. Which will you choose?[…]
“It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness .…”[…]
Face it: Crappie can be very finicky feeders when you’re using artificial lures. […]
It’s a well-founded piscatorial propensity: Tell someone you’re heading off for a panfish mission and you’ll typically hear some bluegill-related reply.[…]
It didn’t take long for Ty Hibbs to stop paying attention to me. Our conversation came to an abrupt stop as soon as we left the ramp.[…]
In 1993, the Louisiana Legislature designated the “white perch” as the state’s official freshwater fish.[…]
Here it is — April. Your freezer is empty and you are hankering for fish. Your favorite fishing hole, the fabulous Atchafalaya Basin is overwhelmed with muddy, flood-stage river water.[…]
“Grandchildren are the dots that connect the lines from generation to generation,” according to Lois Wyse.[…]
Well Mr. Murphy has hit the big time since we last did a show with him, but he still found time in his schedule to accommodate us for another one. He’s clearly still the sac a lait master and it was also clear that the crappie were spawning big time. They were getting freaky.[…]
Melvin Cummings was an expert crappie fishermen 20 years before the words “spider rigging” ever became popular among the crowd that targets slabs — and even though he understands that the concept of multiple-pole trolling is tremendously effective, there’s at least one time of year when he isn’t going to put his single rod down for any reason.[…]
For the last two years in March, anglers at Poverty Point Reservoir State Park have placed a white crappie into Louisiana’s record books.[…]
More catfish have been caught with night crawlers than any other bait, and that probably will always be the case.[…]
Along Atchafalaya Bay, where my spouse and I fish, there are higher rates of salinity in the early spring. […]
“The most valuable person when fishing the kitchen sink rig, or really any spider rig, is the navigator,” Jay Stone said. “The navigator has to pay attention to where the boat is at all times.”[…]
Want to try the kitchen sink? Here are the details of the rig Jay Stone came up with to put the maximum number of baits in the right spots to catch suspended crappie.[…]