Southwest LA

When largemouth bass play hard to get, it’s time to pull out the clichéd yet profoundly applicable allusion of the tortoise and the hare.[…]

Reaction Reduction

Now, with all this talk of subtle presentations with baits that are mostly made for such approaches, let’s not overlook the fact that bass lures built for speed don’t necessarily have to move at a peppy pace all the time.[…]

Slow-down signs

Side-viewing sonar has proven invaluable for many aspects of the bass fishing game, but Johnston said it’s particularly strategic during the hot months because it helps locate bait schools. Find the food and you’ll find the bass.[…]

Dress it up

Increase your chances of pushing those pensive fish over the edge with these three bait enhancement tricks.[…]

Don’t connect the dots to get to far-away fish

He has seen it too many times for it to be an anomaly and he has yet to figure out why people — even guides — do it, but Capt. Jeff Poe with Big Lake Guide Service would never run over a potential fishing spot just to get to another potential fishing spot.[…]

Increase in knowledge leads to decrease in pressure

Although there’s been a lot of talk of increased fishing pressure at Big Lake in the last few years, Capt. Jeff Poe feels like there’s something going on that might have gone a little bit under the rader recently.[…]

Stick with basic baits under pressure

One might think that changing lures would be a good way to counteract fishing pressure at Calcasieu Lake. […]

Under Pressure

This is my son’s first year of playing kid-pitch baseball.

After looking like an all-star in the batting cages during his first practice, he stood on deck and watched the batter before him take a hardball to the lower back in his team’s first attempt to hit off of an inconsistent 9-year-old pitcher.[…]

Cleaning redfish and drum

Redfish and black drum are substantially more difficult to clean than are speckled trout. The heavy bone structure and larger scales make knife control more difficult, often resulting in leaving large amounts of flesh on the carcass.[…]

The 2011 tagging program

March 1, 2012 John K. Flores

In an effort to determine the impact of angling pressure on bass in the Lacassine Pool, the Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries implemented a one-time study in 2011. The goal was to tag approximately 1,500 bass that were at least 8 inches and above in size.[…]

Myers Landing & RV Park

March 1, 2012 John Flores

Located 8 miles west of Lake Arthur is Myers Landing and RV Park. Myers Landing has a grocery store, fishing supplies, propane gas, full RV hookups, a playground, 18-hole mini golf course and boat launch.[…]

A Piece of the Rock

I was stuffed and still the food came. I wondered if Gunner Waldmann and David Bertrand were trying to kill me. First, Waldmann forced me to participate in a redfish blowout that morning. Then he hauled me to Shucks Seafood House in Abbeville, where owner Bertrand took over.[…]

Rockefeller Wildlife Refuge: history and mission

The history of the creation of the Rockefeller Wildlife Refuge is an interesting one, and weaves together the lives of monied American financial barons and the burgeoning conservationist movement coming out of the Gilded Age.[…]

Rockefeller Refuge rules