Bass Fishing
It’s always football season
Much more than a chunky, lumbering bottom bumper, the football jig offers a diverse tool for probing deeper spots — especially those with lots of hard stuff on the bottom.[…]
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Bass Fishing
It’s always football season
Much more than a chunky, lumbering bottom bumper, the football jig offers a diverse tool for probing deeper spots — especially those with lots of hard stuff on the bottom.[…]
Bass Fishing
It’s always football season
Much more than a chunky, lumbering bottom bumper, the football jig offers a diverse tool for probing deeper spots — especially those with lots of hard stuff on the bottom.[…]
Bass Fishing
A splash of color
There’s a reason so many of the worms, skirts and trailers we see in the bass-fishing arena are green pumpkin — the color mimics crawfish and all types of finfish forage.[…]
Bass Fishing
Size matters
Like most baits, football-heads come in various sizes and styles, with each made to address certain scenarios. For illustrative purposes, Hackney breaks down Strike King’s trio:[…]
Freshwater Fishing
Little-known Cocodrie Lake provides summertime crappie action
To stay on sac-a-lait during the summer takes commitment, skill and, of all things, the dire need to relocate. That’s exactly how 68-year old Harold “Boudin” Vidrine of Bayou Chicot and his buddy Ronald “Blanc” Manuel of Ville Platte surmised the summer sac-a-lait situation.[…]
Fishing Tournaments
Texas comes out on top in Bassmaster College Series Shootout against Louisiana
The Texans’ aim was true in the Carhartt Bassmaster College Series’ Louisiana-Texas Shootout on the Red River. Ten Texas collegiate teams combined forces to bring in 61 pounds, 2 ounces and get the better of 10 Louisiana teams that brought in 49 pounds.[…]
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Elite strategem
Dean Rojas won last year’s BASS Elite Series stop at Toledo Bend with 70.15 pounds of bass caught over four days of fishing.[…]
Fishing Tournaments
Tietje’s top 5 anglers to watch
Predicting who will win a bass tournament is about as much of a sure thing as predicting what five cards you’re going to get in a hand of poker.[…]
Fishing Tournaments
Tietje’s top 5 Toledo Bend baits
Since he isn’t fishing the Bassmaster Elite Series Toledo Bend tournament this year because of a medical exemption, local bass pro Dennis Tietje didn’t mind revealing the five lures that he believes will play big parts in putting together a winning pattern when the pros stop at the Bend this month.[…]
Fishing Tournaments
Tournament schedule
The 2012 Bassmaster Elite Series will stop at Toledo Bend in early June, with the world’s top pros prefishing for the event beginning June 4, while competition will kick off at daybreak on June 7 and wrap up on June 10.[…]
Columns
Oxbow bream
Once again, the weather prognosticaters had proven that their job is better left to leaf readers and Ouija boards.[…]
Freshwater Fishing
Tippets
April is one of the best months for both freshwater and marsh fly fishing. Picking the location and the species can be more difficult than catching the fish![…]
Freshwater Fishing
Upcoming Events
Upcoming Events[…]
Bass Fishing
Larto’s Other Fish
Twenty-five miles south of Jonesville, Larto Lake is tucked into some of the best backwater fishing in the state. Late winter bass action on Larto, with its oxbow shape, is a jig fisherman’s paradise.[…]
Deer Hunting
Three cited in connection with night hunting on Three Rivers WMA
Three men were cited Friday (Feb. 17) for allegedly hunting deer at night on Three Rivers Wildlife Management Area, the Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries reported.[…]