Bass Fishing
Long, lanky and in-demand
Bass bites can be hard to come by during the dog days of summer, as they spend most of their time sulking in deep offshore haunts.[…]
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Bass Fishing
Night moves – Night Fishing primer
Why fish at night ?It’s easy to predict one answer—It’s not so blamed hot! Avoid the heat and traffic and bust bigger bass in the process.[…]
Bass Fishing
Hot weather doesn’t slow down Bayou Black bass bite
The line to launch at Bob’s Bayou Black was well beyond the overflow parking lot last Saturday morning.[…]
Bass Fishing
Bassin’ at the Bend
Remember that schoolin’ bass bonanza we enjoyed last summer on Toledo Bend? The long stretch of weeks when 2- to 4-pounders consistently came up and stayed up feeding voraciously on shad, pleasantly reminiscent of those heydays in the 1980s? […]
Bass Fishing
Target cypress trees for big Caddo Lake bass
Nick LeBrun travels the country fishing bass tournaments, but when he returns home to Bossier City this time of year and has a few spare minutes, he knows exactly where he will point his big Skeeter bass boat: Caddo Lake.[…]
Bass Fishing
Big bass in June?
No question about it, largemouth bass are bigger in the springtime, especially the females which are chocked full of eggs before the spawn. But big bass bite in the summer, too. And they are no lightweights.[…]
Bass Fishing
Slow up for the blow up
Frog fishing, like all topwater tactics, rewards diligent casting with that pulse-pounding surface assault. Whether it’s a walking frog or a popper, we watch that steady motion like a birddog on point, hoping with clinched jaw and held breath that the next movement of that plastic nose will detonate the explosive charge.[…]
Bass Fishing
Video: Tips on keeping bass alive in a livewell
With the dog days of summer looming, heat and humidity are about to make life pretty miserable for everyone for at least the next four months.[…]
Bass Fishing
Gear for the rear
Historically, poppers have been one of the most productive baits for fry guarders because you can zip them into tight spots, make use of even a short retrieve lane and create the kind of threatening presentation that’ll send papa reaching for the 12-gauge.[…]
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The Cooyon Croaker
Zach Dubois, 24, has a highly successful sac-a-lait grub on the market and recently introduced the Cooyon Croaker, a plastic frog sure to appeal to bass fishermen wherever bass eat frogs.[…]
Bass Fishing
Proper channels
More than 10 years ago, when I used to live in West Monroe, my local tournament partner Sid Havard and I used to look forward to May every year.[…]
Bass Fishing
Load up a bed with lures and get bit
Bass likely will still be spawning in many of the waters across the state this month, and that adds the element of sight to bass fishing like no other time of year.[…]
Bass Fishing
Place your bets on Toledo Bend
I can’t wait to wet a line fishing for bass in April on Toledo Bend. Me and hundreds of other anglers have been biding our time waiting for this month to get here.[…]
Bass Fishing
You’ll keep coming back to Bayou DeSiard
Put a map in front of most northeast Louisiana bass anglers and ask them to point out good bass fishing spots, most would skip right over Bayou DeSiard in Ouachita Parish. But, the 28-mile long bayou that meanders through Sterlington and Monroe is full of bass. And this time of year is when they start to turn on.[…]
Bass Fishing
Go big or go home
“If you want to catch a giant bass on Lake D’Arbonne, now is the time to do it,” according to Todd Risinger.[…]
Bass Fishing
Gaudy lure colors catch spring bass
Kenny Covington believes bass are in defensive moods during the spawn and post-spawn, and will hit gaudy colors.[…]