Duck hunts have been tough to predict during the first split all across Louisiana, but Central Louisiana has been particularly loony so far. Hunters are whacking them one day and striking out the next.[…]
The last time Louisiana saw so many outsiders moving in to the state to take advantage of an opportunity was after the Civil War when carpetbaggers headed south looking to take advantage of the economic and political situation.[…]
The lights on your trailer are your boat’s first line of defense against collisions. Running lights show other drivers that you have a boat behind you when towing in the dark.[…]
D’Arbonne Lake, near Farmerville, is really unique because it holds three different types of bass — the main-lake bass that relate to the drop-offs, ledges and creek channels and remain in deep water all year.[…]
Spaghetti worms are common parasites of saltwater fish in the drum family, which includes speckled and white trout, black drum, redfish and croakers.[…]
During a poetry unit that my 8th grade English class at Boyet Jr. High in Slidell was dissecting, we came across a poem about legacies. My students easily identified the extended metaphor comparing a mother’s courage to a granite hill.[…]
“THE ROAD!” Anthony shouted as we nearly careened into a ditch along I-10.“Sorry about that guys, but did you see them?” I replied.[…]
It’s Friday night — sons are home from college for the weekend. At 1:30 a.m., the old man gets up to answer nature’s call. The light is on in two bedrooms down the hallway. The old man hears voices coming from both sons’ computers of other gamers.[…]
A recent National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration discussion paper has brought home to Gulf of Mexico fishermen the momentum of the movement to create marine protected areas (MPAs) in the northern Gulf of Mexico.[…]
Down here in the Deep South, we don’t really get to enjoy four different seasons like folks do farther north. I always heard that each season — spring, summer, fall and winter — had its own unique characteristics, and up north, those folks actually get to experience them.[…]
Each December, anglers from near and far trek to the famed Midnight Lump, or Sackett Bank, located south of Venice to do battle with triple-digit yellowfin tuna, giant mako sharks and other trophy fish.[…]
You wouldn’t expect a serious golfer to hit the links with just any set of clubs. He has to have his clubs — the ones he uses to give him confidence in his drives, chips and putts. […]
Kaplan resident Drew Gaspard, 13, dropped this beastly 10-point during youth weekend in Tensas Parish. It green-scored 159 7/8. The 2007 season has already delivered some incredible deer kills.[…]
Bass once made up much of my family’s diet from the 1960s until the mid-1980s. If you go back to the history of catch and release, you’ll see that Ray Scott, founder of B.A.S.S., originally initiated this program, since he’d received so much criticism in the early days of B.A.S.S about his tournament anglers catching and killing large numbers of big bass.[…]
I didn’t really know what I was getting myself into when I accepted retired LSU biologist Jerald Horst’s invitation to spend a couple days hunting the Atchafalaya Delta WMA with him.[…]
Mid December and the temperature had “dropped” into the high-60s for the night. “Forget it,” Pelayo snorted over the phone. “Hear that in the background?”[…]