Louisiana Sportsman

Apex Predator’s top fluorocarbon knots

June 10, 2016 Josh Chauvin

With so many uncontrollable factors when fishing, one thing I can control is my knot choice — so I try to use the most efficient knots possible to put the odds in my favor. […]

Video: Night footage captures speckled trout feeding frenzy

April 27, 2016 Patrick Bonin

With April’s full moon last week, plenty of impatient anglers are finally heading into prime speckled trout fishing time across Louisiana’s coast.[…]

VIDEO: Kayaker finds massive gator on end of jug line

April 12, 2016 Andy Crawford

Baton Rouge’s Lance Burgos was enjoying a weekend camping trip to Lake Fausse Point State Park with his 11-year-old daughter Evan on Saturday when a jug line in a nearby canal caught their eye.
“She had been watching that yellow float swimming around, and she said, ‘I want to know what’s on the other end,'” the elder Burgos said. “I told her it was either a catfish or a garfish.”[…]

Fishing the Spawn Period

April 7, 2016 Sportsman Network

Greg Hackney discusses how he fishes the Spawn period.[…]

VIDEO: Discover how to catch Tchefuncte River crappie

March 9, 2016 Joel Masson

This time of year, even anglers who don’t regularly target sac-a-lait break out the light line and poles. Covington’s Jeff Bruhl did that Monday evening, and murdered the crappie on one of the toughest freshwater fisheries in the state — the Tchefuncte River.[…]

VIDEO: Watch a Toledo Bend 8-pounder being netted

February 29, 2016 Andy Crawford

Early last week there was a major wave of bass that moved into Toledo Bend’s shallows to spawn, but the cool front that passed through the area a few days later pushed most of the fish back into deeper water.[…]

Ned Rig finesses bass into the boat

December 21, 2015 Andy Crawford

The coldest month of the year is here, but you still want to go out and catch some bass. The question is: How?[…]

Mountain Dew stops bleeding of gill-hooked bass

October 27, 2015 Andy Crawford

The fishing trip was going fantastic. My buddy Austin Abadie and I were catching bass after bass on small Academy H20 Xpress square-billed crankbaits during one of my vacation days.[…]

Terrebonne Basin Restoration

September 17, 2015 Sportsman Network

Chris Macaluso talks about the Terrebonne Basin restoration project.[…]

VIDEO: Is this the world-record tuna

August 21, 2015 Andy Crawford

The heaviest tuna I ever landed was a roughly 115-pound yellowfin. But the meanest one was a 90-pounder that almost killed me. I mean the danged thing just refused to give up, and I almost threw the rod, reel and stand-up belt overboard in capitulation.[…]

VIDEO: What happens when a Coonass gets stuck after the tide falls 4 feet?

July 9, 2015 Andy Crawford

Anglers in South Louisiana deal with falling tides all the time, but when you head up the East Coast the tides are a bit different — which is what Gonzales’ Gerald Spohrer discovered while practicing for a Bassmaster Open on the James River in Virginia.[…]