Louisiana Sportsman

Keys to False River spawning bass

March 1, 2018 Andy Crawford

False River hasn’t been on anyone’s radar for years, since it was dropped from the state Quality Lakes system in the wake of siltation that wrecked what once was a legendary fishery.[…]

Spawn down south

March 1, 2018 Andy Crawford

The stained waters of South Louisiana are packed with bass. Use these tips from bass pros who grew up down south to catch more lunkers.[…]

$5,500 reward offered for illegally killed St. Mary Parish black bears

February 28, 2018 From News Reports

Officials are offering a $5,500 reward for information leading to the arrest and conviction of the person or persons who shot two adult male black bears in early February south of Franklin.[…]

Huge bobcat goes down Feb. 5

February 22, 2018 Patrick Bonin

Troy Borill has been a man on a mission for about the last five years or so, actively hunting predators in Acadia Parish that impact deer and their habitat like wild hogs, coyotes and bobcats. […]

Sac-a-lait shine this month out of Morgan City

February 6, 2018 Don Shoopman

Like many other sac-a-lait fishermen, Bill McCarty is ready to make a well-placed cast, set the hook and pull in slab after slab when February rolls around in South Central Louisiana.[…]

Hunter shoots rare white-headed mallard drake

January 31, 2018 Patrick Bonin

On Jan. 16, Brock Baudoin of New Iberia took friend Brennan Hebert duck hunting at Wax Lake Outlet just before Cajun country was about to enter into the grips of frigid Arctic temperatures. […]

Make Gulp “jerky” for longer lasting lures

January 31, 2018 Devin Denman

Berkley Gulp products have certainly earned a spot in my tackle box.[…]

Three patterns to catch False River bass

January 30, 2018 Andy Crawford

False River in Pointe Coupee Parish was once one of the premier fisheries in the state, part of the Quality Lakes system stocked with Florida-strain bass. And then in the late 1990s, things just fell apart — siltation and water clarity suffered, and the fishery became a shade of its former glory.[…]

Bayou Sorrel pond gives up 12-pound lunker bass

December 27, 2017 Patrick Bonin

Dequian Jackson hasn’t been bass fishing all that long, but the 20-year-old reeled in a true lunker largemouth earlier this month from a public pond in Bayou Sorrel and experienced a fight most veteran anglers likely will never get to feel in their lifetimes.[…]