Freshwater Fishing
Ups and downs
Working single jigs over brush piles boasts a long history of crappie success, but consider this: For a hungry predatory, if one bait is good, then two is great and more is — well, you get the picture.[…]
Freshwater Fishing
Freshwater Fishing
Options and benefits
Complementing the umbrella rig’s benefit of quantity, you also have an amplified element of experimentation.[…]
Freshwater Fishing
Rig roundup
Similar to its bass-market counterparts, the multi-bait crappie rig has seen rapidly expanding creativity. Local models and homemade jobs are many, but here are a handful of commercial models:[…]
Freshwater Fishing
Tippets
For fly anglers, January can be the worst of times, the best of times. It all depends on the weather and if you prefer quality over quantity.[…]
Freshwater Fishing
LDWF adopts NOI to alter catfish regulations on Texas boundary waters
The Louisiana Wildlife and Fisheries Commission adopted a notice of intent that would alter daily creel limit regulations for channel and blue catfish taken in Toledo Bend Reservoir, Caddo Lake and the Sabine River.[…]
Columns
The rainbow phenomena
Winter is the time of year to witness one of nature’s more unusual spectacles here in Louisiana — the Sundog.[…]
Columns
The case of the slippery eel
Nothing could be worse for a freshwater natural-bait fisherman. Something obviously huge had grabbed the worm or crawfish on his hook and was fighting furiously. He could almost imagine the broad head of a big catfish emerging from the water.[…]
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Slab spread — How to use umbrella rigs for crappie
Umbrella rigs aren’t just for bass fishing anymore. Learn how you can use the multi-bait outfits to force crappie into feeding frenzies.[…]
Freshwater Fishing
Tips to identify white bass, stripers and hybrid striped bass
Men, it seems — more specifically fishermen — like to mess with Mother Nature. North America is blessed with hundreds of suitable species for fishermen to catch, yet the pursuit of superfish for anglers to chase has led fisheries biologists to cross breed many naturally occurring species.[…]
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Night Stripes — Fishing tips for Lake St. John hybrid stripers
When darkness falls on Lake St. John, hybrid stripers swarm around pier lights. And these anglers know how to get them to bite.[…]
Freshwater Fishing
Shimano introduces all-new Antares freshwater baitcasting reel
Shimano is introducing this week the all new Antares freshwater baitcasting reel series, built for long casts and super smooth operation.[…]
Freshwater Fishing
Lake Cataouatche bass fishing falls off hard with disappearance of hydrilla
Lake Cataouatche was 98 percent covered by hydrilla in 2007, and that mass of vegetation fueled a big-bass fishery that grabbed world attention in 2011 when Kevin VanDam won his fourth Bassmaster Classic by seining those grass beds for more than 69 pounds over three days of competition.[…]
Freshwater Fishing
Construction underway on Bayou Amy boat launch in Henderson
Construction has begun on a boat launch on Bayou Amy directly across from the Atchafalaya Basin western guide levee in Henderson, according to a press release.[…]
Freshwater Fishing
Chinquapin prefer cold worms over crickets
Most folks that load their boats for a bream-fishing trip toss a tube of crickets in, hoping the top doesn’t come off.[…]
Freshwater Fishing
Grass and point edges key to finding chinquapin
Finding something as small as a chinquapin in the middle of a big reservoir like Grand Bayou is kind of like looking for a — well, you know.[…]
Freshwater Fishing
Find bank fishing spots with satellite imagery
Although Aaron Langlois and Joseph Bordelon showed me one of their favorite bank-fishing spots from a boat, there’s no doubt they are drawn to the simplicity of being land-locked anglers.[…]