When former Shreveporter John Lee Smith was pounding the water in northwest Louisiana, he built quite a name for himself as one of the top anglers in the region.

He figures he won more than $100,000 in local tournaments during his 30 years in the area fishing events on Caddo, D’Arbonne, Bistineau, Cross and the Atchafalaya, along with Toledo Bend Reservoir. He began fishing the latter impoundment the day it opened to the public and quickly learned many of its vagaries.

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