Catfish
Cut the fat for beautiful catfish fillets
With a few easy strokes of his knife, Jim Danley shows how to produce mild-tasting, white-fleshed cutlets of fish from his big river catfish. […]
Articles by Jerald Horst
Catfish
Mississippi Monsters — Top fishing tips for Mississippi River catfish
It looked like a sea monster when it first came up.
The wide, slate-gray body did a rolling churn when it surfaced in the turbid Mississippi River water. […]
Featured
Big Rick’s Smothered Frog Legs with Pecan Oil
This recipe is one of Rick Barrios’ specialties. Most people simply fry frog legs, and there is absolutely nothing wrong with that. But this recipe expands the range of what can be done with frog legs. […]
Recipes
Ronnie’s Smothered Crabs
Ronnie Sampey shows you how he cooks crabs. This tasty Smothered Crabs dish is wonderful, but messy to eat. […]
Crappie/Bream
Tips to keep bream fishing hot all summer
Freddie McMullen is a bream-catching expert, who honed his skills on Louisiana’s Black Bayou Lake. Here are his tips for filling the ice chest every time you hit the water. […]
Featured
Redfish Sauce Piquant
This recipe came from my dad,”; Ronnie Sampey said. “He would cook it at camps. Normally, people cook sauce piquant with meat like rabbit, turtle or alligator. Most people I know have never heard of a redfish sauce piquant. I use fillets cut into chunks because I don’t like to fool with bones.’
Crappie/Bream
Top 8 tips for more bream
Veteran angler Freddie McMullen has learned how to up his odds of success. Here are his tips to fill that cooler with slab-sized sunfish. […]
Field Notes
Top tips for trout success
A person can’t successfully charter fish for 28 years without accumulating a bag of tricks. Zutie Auenson is no exception. Here are some of his favorite tactics to stay on trout. […]
Featured
The Candy Man can — Fishing gummy worms for trout
When Bob Bateman nestled the bow of the boat against the grassy bank and reached for a rod rigged with an oval popping cork, I knew he was going after speckled trout. […]
Crappie/Bream
Top bream-fishing tackle
Charles Johnson grew up as a country boy fishing bream. He cut his own cane poles from creek cane (bamboo that had escaped from cultivation).
For bait, he dug earthworms or caught black crickets. […]
Freshwater Fishing
A primer on worms
To an artificial lure-only snob, an earthworm is an earthworm. Not to knowledgeable freshwater live-bait anglers, though.
To them, earthworms come in three flavors. […]
Freshwater Fishing
Bream-fishing mistakes to avoid
When Charles Johnson was asked what mistakes people make when they fish bream beds, his answer was simple: “noise, noise, noise.” […]