Volume 31 Number 7 - July 2011

FEATURES:

	Burn Hack! Trout thick at Cocodrie’s Raccoon Island Kids need action to stay interested. ... Chris Ginn

	Chumming the Shallows Nearshore rigs hold best summertime action "It’s a bird!" gasped Eddie while pointing up. "No! It’s a plane! No! It’s a PIG!" ... Humberto Fontova

	High On The Hogs More hunters targeting wild hogs at night The concept of fair chase is a hallmark tenet of hunters around the globe. Basically, it means that hunters give the game they target a fair and fighting chance to outwit the hunter and leave him hungry for another chess match in the field. ... Todd Masson

	Live-Bait Barataria Live bait delivers Barataria Bay speckled trout strikes Except for the glittering lights of Lafitte on one side of the bayou and Barataria on the other, the night was pitch-black. It was a beautiful sight on Bayou Barataria. ... Jerald Horst

	Mack Attack EI-74 ground zero for excellent Spanish mackerel action A drip of sweat somehow traveled along the Neanderthalic eyebrow-hidden bumps of my forehead and passed down the lens of my cheater eyeglasses. The sweat stung my eye, blurred my vision and complicated my efforts to thread some monofilament through ... John Flores

	North Louisiana angler has great success at Grand Isle Speckled trout or redfish, live baits or plastics, rising tide or falling tide. Every month Louisiana Sportsman has several articles discussing the myriad details of saltwater fishing. ... Terry L. Jones

	Take Home Angler: Dr. Sam Field Cocodrie couple catches Whiskey Pass speckled trout Things have changed an awful lot in Cocodrie since Dr. Sam Field started fishing down there in the 1970s. What used to be a rustic camp destination has turned into a refined resort of sorts. ... Chris Ginn

	The Spillway Effect Spillway opening pushes fish to unusual places Unless you are strictly a freshwater angler, the opening of the Bonnet Carre’ Spillway has definitely altered your fishing plans for the summer. On May 9, the Corps of Engineers began opening the bays of the spillway to divert some of the rising ... Rusty Tardo

	We’re all ‘Swamp People’ July is month to apply for public-land alligator tags When out-of-state people think about Louisiana, they think, “Alligators.” Louisiana has long had a reputation for alligators and alligator hunting. Most of us older folks remember Jerry Reed’s song, “Amos Moses was a Cajun, he lived by hisself in ... James Davis

	Work that Wiggle Swimbaits deliver Louisiana bass About the only way to make a soft-body swimbait more user-friendly would be teaching it to tie its own knot. Short of that, just sling one out, wind it back and note how this hunk of molded plastic excels at doing the work for you. ... David A. Brown