Bass Fishing
Boat block
Wind is the sight-fisherman’s enemy, but Craig Graham said there is a way to minimize the waves that break visual contact with bedding bass.[…]
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D’Arbonne’s Daffy Divers
It was late evening in the early summer. The five men assembled on the back deck of the Petrus family camp, set on a hill slope overlooking Lake D’Arbonne, were engaged in a masculine redneck ritual. Bobby Petrus, a.k.a. “The Claw,” was grilling meat, and all of them were exchanging humorous insults.
The rough-and-tumble humor, mixed with an equal blend of braggadocio and self-deprecation, was delivered with powerful North Louisiana twangs in what a Cajun or a New Orleanian would consider a foreign language.[…]
Freshwater Fishing
Why a hole?
Catfish noodlers, grabbers or wrestlers, whatever you call them, take advantage of an important trait in the biology of North American freshwater catfish. They need to spawn in cavities of some kind.[…]
Freshwater Fishing
Rub-a-dub tub
Catfish noodlers use a variety of man-made objects to entice flatheads into confining spaces where they can be grabbed. The “Women, Whiskey and Wrastl’in” crew have settled on bathtubs as their favorite. Preparing one takes substantial work.[…]
Catfish
Tools of the trade
“Wrestl’in” catfish demands a few specialized tools. The piggin stick, described elsewhere, is important for more than riling up catfish. It is used in communication.[…]
Bass Fishing
In Plain View
I walked down to the dock and saw Craig “Bubba” Graham shielding his eyes from the glare of the sun, just staring into the water. Something had his attention.[…]
Bass Fishing
Polarized glasses essential to success
Monster bass can be all over the banks and locked on beds, but if they can’t be seen they can’t be caught.[…]
Bass Fishing
Keys to sight-fishing
Anyone who has ever set up on a bedding bass knows there’s the real potential to burn hours of fishing time without getting that fish to bite.[…]
Bass Fishing
Leave the males
Some anglers swear the best way to catch a female bass off a bed is snatch the male into the boat and store it in the livewell. Craig Graham doesn’t subscribe to that theory.[…]
Events & Announcements
Body of missing boater found in Morehouse Parish
Search-and-rescue teams located the body of a missing boater on Jones Lake in Morehouse Parish today (March 16).[…]
Events & Announcements
Search on for missing Morehouse Parish boater
State and local officials are searching for a 51-year-old Jones man who didn’t return from a weekend fishing trip to Jones Lake in Morehouse Parish, the Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries reported today.[…]
Deer of the Year
Private hunting spot yields 160-class Madison Parish 12-point
There are 1,600 sprawling acres on the Sullivan family farm in Madison Parish, but a special spot is off limits to everyone except Brenda Sullivan. And while sitting in a ground blind in her private hunting grounds on Oct. 20, Sullivan sent an arrow into the vitals of a huge 275-pound 12-point buck that walked up to within 15 yards of her blind.
“We’d seen this buck on our trail cameras when he was in velvet, and I knew he was a good one,” Sullivan said. “I couldn’t really tell just how big but knew his rack was tall and wide.”[…]
Deer of the Year
Forgotten camera card leads to 150-inch 7-point East Carroll Parish buck
In most cases when you’ve gotten to your deer stand and realize you forgot something back at the truck, it’s unsettling. However, for 20-year-old Tanner McDonald it’s the best thing that could have happened to him the morning of Jan. 12.
Soon after McDonald hopped in his Ranger UTV and heading back to his truck to retrieve the item he needed, a monster buck shot across the path 10 yards ahead of him.[…]
Deer of the Year
Davis Island yields 170-class 9-point
With his week of vacation coming agonizingly to a close on Dec. 30, Harvey Guillot cashed in on a magnificent 9-point buck at the last minute on his Rosedale Hunting Club on Davis Island, and it did it in an unconventional way.[…]
Deer of the Year
Nine-year-old drops 160-class Concordia Parish monster
In some ways, 9-year-old Brier Williamson is a typical third grader. He enjoys school, but looks forward to those weekends when his dad drives him down from their Rayville home to Ridgecrest to hunt with his grandfather Jerry Poole. […]
Deer Hunting
Franklin Parish man cited for illegally killing trophy deer, entering big-buck contests
A Winnsboro man was cited Thursday (Jan. 19) for allegedly killing a 15-point deer with an illegal weapon and entering it into several North Louisiana big-buck contests, the Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries reported today.
LDWF agents cited Billy W. Jordan, 54, of Winnsboro for taking a deer with an illegal weapon and four felony counts of contest fraud, the agency reported.[…]