Lake life

These are keepers!

If you read lakedarbonnelife.com, don’t thank me. OK, you can thank me. But please, thank the folks pictured below. They are our sponsors and we would not be here without them. None of them have to do it. But they support fishing, hunting, the outdoors and the Lake D’Arbonne Country community. Please tell them you … Continue reading →

Thought for today:

And yes, more big bucks

You have to live in north Louisiana to appreciate the fact that the area’s outdoorsmen, right here in the middle of prime fishing season, are still thinking about big bucks. And hunting stories. And, well, making excuses about the big one they missed. You get the picture. This Friday night, March 8, the 2019 Union … Continue reading →

ACT: It’s the big one, Ethel!

The old TV show Samford and Son was famous for one-liners like “you old fish-eyed fool” and “It’s the big one, Ethel“. And while they weren’t talking about actual fish, Lake D’Arbonne is famous for big fish — like crappie, bass and catfish. Near as I can find out, Fred never fished D’Arbonne, but there’s … Continue reading →

No catch here

There’s no “catch” to this. It’s something rare today: just the plain, honest truth. A growing number of people cant handle it. Too bad for them.

So many big bucks

You don’t have to get in the woods to see a bunch of big deer. Just come to the Awards Day for Simmon’s Big Buck Contest Saturday, March 2 in Bastrop. There are more big deer than you can dream of. And there’s lots more, including the Simmons Cutdown Classic Duck Calling Contest with a … Continue reading →

Just fishin’

Riding down the highway at Lake D’Arbonne this past Thursday, I had to turn around and do a double take. All the Crappie Masters guys were off the lake. The weather was awful. Pouring down rain. Nasty. But there, out in one of the community holes not far from the Hwy. 33 bridge, was a … Continue reading →

Hey fish…they see you

Some people are paranoid that the government (aka “big brother“) is always watching us. Well, that may be true. But I don’t think that even the government can peek into your dining room and see when you are about to take a bite of lunch. Crappie, on the other hand, are not quite as fortunate … Continue reading →

Carlile, Nichols are Crappie Masters

Folks familiar with the fantastic crappie fishing on Lake D’Arbonne know that the reservoir is full of big crappie from one end of the lake to the other. Two fellows from Oklahoma proved that today. Robert Carlile and Craig Nichols of Oklahoma, two guys that have been fishing together since they were kids, led wire … Continue reading →

Oklahomans take the lead

If you had to pick a week NOT to practice for and participate in a fishing tournament, this week just might have been it. Lightning storms, winds from every direction up to 20 mph, big rain, little rain and more rain. A full moon, rising lake levels, muddy water and fish swimming around in circles … Continue reading →