Bass Fishing
Caney Lake bass offer anglers two choices
November is all about numbers of bass on Caney Lake – and here’s how you can catch them. […]
Fishing
Fishing Hotspots
Marsh speckled trout action on fire
The trout transition was delayed this fall, but fish have finally moved inside.[…]
Crappie/Bream
Sloughs still holding Lake D’Arbonne crappie
If you want to slay the crappie on Lake D’Arbonne this month, you’ve got to search the sloughs — that’s where the fish will be, gorging on shad and filling up for the winter.[…]
Featured
Fall trout bite starting to heat up along Lake Pontchartrain bridges
Chas Champagne said the trout bite on eastern Lake Pontchartrain could be picking up as cooler weather settles in. […]
Inshore Fishing
This technique + wind = big speckled trout haul
Marsh Man Masson created a video featuring a great tactic to catch speckled trout in windy condtions. […]
Outdoor Updates
Guide catches beautiful leopard red out of Cocodrie
Capt. Eric Pellegrin was in the midst of a hot trout bite Saturday morning near Wine Island Pass out of Cocodrie when a redfish crashed the party. […]
Speckled Trout
SPECKLED TROUT: How to fish deep holes for EASY fall and winter limits
Jon Miller, a new Sportsman Field Reporter, knocks this instructional fall and winter speckled trout video out-of-the-park.[…]
Featured
Speckled trout bite back at Grand Isle/Fourchon
Sportsman field reporter Tommy Vidrine says after a few months of bad fishing, the speckled trout are back feeding along the coasts of Grand Isle and Fourchon.[…]
Inshore Fishing
Speckled trout galore in a community hole
After finding slower action than expected at our first stop of the day, Capt. Kris Robert and I went exploring, and located a non-stop speckled trout bite in an area known more for its wintertime[…]
Columns
Creature Feature: The little shad is a good shad
In this month’s Creature Feature column, Jerald Horst tells you everything you wanted to know — and more — about differences between gizzard and threadfin shad. […]
Inshore Fishing
Cypremort Point specks surface at The Cove
Mike Malone of Sulphur, La. tallied up his best day of speckled trout fishing this past weekend while fishing in Vermilion Bay during a scouting trip for the upcoming Lafayette Kayak Club trout fishing tournament. And he wasn’t the only one.[…]
Featured
Huge schools of redfish spotted near Fourchon beach
Fish top water and flies for smashing results If you love seeing redfish smash topwater offerings, but aren’t that familiar with the waters around Grand Isle, now is the time to head down Highway 1[…]
Features
The Delacroix Trifecta
Specks, reds and bass are all doable on a nice fall day in Delacroix. Here’s what you need to know to pull off the triple play.[…]
Catfish
Pitch black cats
It was black on the water. Of course, it was midnight.
We sat as quiet as death in Sidney Haynes’ 17-foot aluminum SeaArk boat. In the distance, automobile headlights flitted busily through New Roads, perched hard on the shores of False River, the big oxbow lake of Pointe Coupee Parish.[…]
Features
Trestle mania 2018
When October arrives, Mother Nature typically loosens her grip on the heat and humidity that have gripped the state since early summer, and teases us with a few tantalizing cool fronts that usher in the start of fall.[…]
Flounder
Hooking up
Hooking flounder can be a bit of a challenge.
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