He called it “venture fishing.” I called it a few choice words I can’t write here. But before me lay an extremely, thick tangle of small, long branches sticking atop the water from a submerged, major artery of a tree.[…]
There are as many ways to catch crappie as there are names for the tasty fish.[…]
Fishing is a lifetime pursuit; one never stops learning. Sometimes the education comes from books, videos or seminars.[…]
Actually, buffalo are three species of fish rather than one. No one knows from where the odd name for the creatures is derived. But their scientific names are almost certainly taken from their common name.[…]
Got a Poppa Chop?
If so, chances are you are using the fine-hair jig and catching sac-a-lait on the creation Paul “Chopper” Viator and his wife Angela make at their home in Delcambre.[…]
My grandfather used to have a plaque at the end of his hall that read, “If fishing interferes with work, quit work!”[…]
The daily bag limit on crappie has been changed for anglers fishing D’Arbonne Lake in Union Parish, the Louisiana Department of Wildlife & Fisheries announced today (Nov. 29).[…]
Aerial spraying of giant salvinia is set to begin today on Lake Bistineau in an effort to control the aquatic vegetation that has taken over the reservoir, the Louisiana Department of Wildlife & Fisheries announced.
Helicopter crews will conduct the spraying over two days, with workers in airboats following up with additional spraying in areas of thick concentration among dense cypress trees, the LDWF said.[…]
Bayou Corne is famous for its crappie fishing, known locally as sac-a-lait and in North Louisiana as white perch.[…]
Jim Looney is an artificial bait kind of guy. Except when he is targeting bream in the heat of the summer, live bait is never on his hook.[…]
Since mid-summer, Bayou Corne has received plenty of not-so-welcome publicity because of what the media has dubbed the “Bayou Corne Sinkhole.”[…]
Besides being a fanatical angler, Jim Looney is the author of 12 fishing booklets focused on how to catch bass, bream and sac-a-lait in the Grand Bayou-Bayou Corne areas, as well as the Atchafalaya Basin. He also covers redfish and speckled trout in Pointe au Chien.[…]
Like so much of Louisiana, the Bayou Corne/Grand Bayou area seems to be a maze of canals and bayous. All of them look almost the same, so “what does a poor girl do?”[…]
Two boaters who failed to return home yesterday from a trip in the Grand Lake area south of Lake Arthur were found today after a 12-hour search, the Louisiana Department of Wildlife & Fisheries reported.[…]
Dredging began yesterday (Oct. 24) to help improve the flow of fresh water in the Attakapas Island Wildlife Management Area, the Louisiana Department of Natural Resources announced.[…]
When Mike Richardson actively began fishing for river cats approximately two months ago, he didn’t have any illusions of setting a state angling record in the process.[…]