Cover Chris Ginn
There are no summer doldrums here. Read this issue to put specks, crappie and much more in your boat.
Cover Chris Ginn
There are no summer doldrums here. Read this issue to put specks, crappie and much more in your boat.
Herk’s Half-Dozen By Rusty Tardo
Grand Isle is a seven-square-mile barrier island connected to the rest of Louisiana by a narrow causeway. Located about 100 miles from New Orleans, the narrow island separates Barataria Bay from the Gulf of Mexico, and is the permanent home of 1,500 residents.
Life in the Fast Lane
By Chris Ginn
At the expense of small towns all across America, the Interstate system became a traveler’s best friend as Americans realized they could speed from one side of the country to the other without anything in their way.
Alligator Ambush
By David Moreland
For most hunters, the traditional fall and winter hunting season begins the first Saturday in September when dove season opens. The first couple of weekends in September are buzzing with hunting activity as hunters sharpen up their shooting skills on these gray ghosts.
Great 8
By Chris Ginn
Taking a topwater to the crotch doesn’t sound like something a speckled trout angler would have to worry about. Sling a trout in the boat, let him flop around on the floor, grab him and unhook him. Throw him on ice and repeat while the topwater stays a safe distance away.
Heavy Hitters in Trout Ball
By Jerald Horst
When does a speckled trout cross over from the indignity of school-trout status into the glory realm of trophy trout?
The Lady and the Kid
By Jerald Horst
“Well, at least the pork chop sandwich is good.”
River Wild, Part I
By Terry L. Jones
Today, the Red River is a fishing mecca. Both largemouth and white bass prowl around its rock jetties, huge catfish lurk in the deep holes and crappie school up on the oxbow lakes.
Sweating to the Hits
By Chris Ginn
If you were to list your all-time favorite things to do on the water during a lazy Louisiana summer, where would you rank catching crappie on a cypress-tree lake?
Bunny Huggers
By Andy Crawford
If fishing is like religion, then fly fishing is high church,” news anchor Tom Brokaw has said.
Wrecked!
By Rusty Tardo
It started with a casual greeting just before daylight recently when I bumped into Capt. Charlie Thomason at the dock of Blackie Campo’s Marina in Shell Beach. We were both standing in the live bait line, and eager to get under way.
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