Freshwater Fishing
Where to go on Black Bayou Reservoir
Black Bayou Reservoir (not to be confused with Black Bayou Lake near Monroe) is a 600-acre body of water located eight miles north of Bossier City near the town of Benton.[…]
August 2014
Freshwater Fishing
Best gear
If you want to hear the cry “striper on” often, here’s the gear Captain D recommends.[…]
Freshwater Fishing
Tackle for Black Bayou black crappie
Weldon’s Black Bayou setup is four 12-foot Outlaw crappie poles with 12-pound high visibility Stren gold monofilament line.[…]
Freshwater Fishing
Four seasons of Claiborne stripers
Persistent fishermen can catch striped bass on Lake Claiborne pretty much all year long. The four seasons of Claiborne stripers vary a little bit from traditional “seasons,” as Donny Hood outlined below.[…]
Freshwater Fishing
Eat, sleep, fish
Whoever came up with the “Eat, Sleep, Fish” T-shirt must have been from Louisiana. That’s because usually everywhere you find good fishing, good food can’t be far away.[…]
Inshore Fishing
Vidrine’s speck calendar
Tommy Vidrine’s speckled trout fishing calendar is broken into three segments, and how and where he fishes is different for each period.[…]
Freshwater Fishing
History of Claiborne stripers
Lake Claiborne was completed in 1967. Even before that time, Hood’s father had property on the lake, and the two of them have actually walked all the way across what he calls the Little Lake area of Claiborne, which is the large open area north of the Big Lake but still south of the two large arms that extend far to the north of the spillway almost all the way to downtown Homer in Claiborne Parish.[…]
Inshore Fishing
Philosophy of a predator
“I try to think like a fish,” said Tommy Vidrine, dark eyes burning fiercely. “A predator like a trout is different than a redfish. They will be a predator and a scavenger. Speckled trout are always predators.[…]
Columns
The Rage Blade
An Edisto Island, S.C., artificial lure designer knows first-hand just how good the ChatterBait was when it was born and how good it is now, as it has won more money this year than ever before for pro bass anglers on the FLW and Bassmaster Elite series circuits across the United States.[…]
Columns
More about trophy bucks and lunker bass
Many years ago (OK, it was during the Dark Ages for you young people), I was helping Louisiana Sportsman contributor Chris Berzas with an article about deer habitat. I was demonstrating the newly developed deer browse transect and how it measures browse availability and utilization.[…]
Columns
Micro fly fishing
If Stephen Robert, Rob Bergeron and myself were ever locked in a nuclear laboratory, within 24 hours the world would end.[…]
Ask Captain Paul
The Pickets are to be!
It looks like the actual well heads and Christmas tree and platforms in the area known as the Pickets will be removed. […]
Columns
Watch out, sucker!
Every fish makes its own living in its own way. Some are hard-swimming, driving predators. Others are kind of laid back and take advantage of their fellow fish in the sea.[…]
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Jacks are wild — Top tips for amberjack fishing
If you’re looking for fancy, graceful or aesthetically pleasing, amberjacks will disappoint you. If, on the other hand, an arm-stretching, back-straining lesson in brutality sounds fun, you’ll really enjoy hanging out with the fish marine biologists call Seriola dumerili.[…]
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Deer hunting’s good old days — today
By the turn of the 20th century, Louisiana’s deer herd was in trouble. Non-stop hunting by people trying to put meat on the table, and market hunters supplying restaurants with venison and leather clothiers with hides was pushing the herd to the brink.[…]
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Breton Sound Beat-down — Trout fishing tips for Breton Sound
The urban dictionary of slang defines a “beat-down” as when you pummel or repeatedly beat something (or someone) into submission.[…]