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Lake D’Arbonne
Wind-aided fishing report
I got up early Thursday morning (Yes, George, before 9 a.m.) to try and get in a last minute fishing trip before the approaching storms hit. You know, fish always bite better before an approaching storm. I didn’t have to turn on any lights to see if the wind had kicked up yet. I could … Continue reading
Elshout and Price: Dynamic Bass Duo
When you are my age, you learn to appreciate experience. That’s just one reason I know that Martin Elshout and Mark Price of Ruston are good fishermen. Combined, they’ve got 100+ years of bass fishing experience. If that isn’t enough, all you have to do is read bass tournament reports from around the area to … Continue reading
Help clean up behind the dumpies
Since this is a family oriented web site, I can’t put into words what I really think about the poor, unfortunate, dump (oops, I meant dumb) “people” who litter. It’s kind of like they missed the lesson on growing up. I’ll just leave it at that. Fortunately, there are good people who try and clean … Continue reading
We interrupt fishing season
We interrupt fishing season to bring you this important report: The internet has opened up a whole new world that I could have never imagined. It puts people in contact with each other who would have never met otherwise. This is also true with fishermen! I’ve written about Ed Moes, the founder of crappie.com, a … Continue reading
Fisheries head: “Celebrate crappie success”
It’s only natural. Hundreds of fishermen are catching hundreds of Lake D’Arbonne crappie day after day after day. The boats are so thick in some areas of the lake that it seems like you could “walk on water” from boat to boat. Then, you start to wonder, are folks catching too many? Is all this … Continue reading
Terzia & Aulds land dream catch!
Wow! Just plain Wow ! Saturday, Greg Terzia and Ron Aulds had a day that most of us only dream about on Lake D’Arbonne. The duo caught a record-setting five fish limit of largemouth bass that weighed 27.34 pounds to take home the top prize in the Fishers of Men North Central Louisiana division tournament … Continue reading
Fishing or catching? Both
I knew something would slow down the unbelievable number of white perch being caught on Lake D’Arbonne and sure enough, it’s happened. No, the fish didn’t jump over the spillway or hide out under boat docks. Mother Nature cut them some slack Wednesday with 35 mph North winds which whipped up enough waves that even … Continue reading
Hook, Line & Sinker
The first time I met Bob Mitcham, he had so much fishing equipment it took a 25-foot step-in cargo van to haul it all around. I mean, he was into fishing Hook, Line & Sinker. Of course, in those days some 30 years ago, it was his business. He ran a route in that old … Continue reading
Fishing is like a box of chocolates. . .
Forrest Gump said, “Life is like a box of chocolates. You never know what you’ll get“. Well, fishing on Lake D’Arbonne these days is kind of like that. You never know what you’ll get, like catching a glimpse of two famous TV stars trolling down the channel in their camouflaged bass boat trying to catch … Continue reading
The one that got away
Leading any competitive event for three days in a row is tough. Throw in the extra challenge of being the defending champs and being halfway across the country from the home field and it makes for extraordinary odds. The odds were just too much for the University of Louisiana-Monroe team of Brian Eaton and Nick … Continue reading
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