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?”[…]
My grandfather used to have a plaque at the end of his hall that read, “If fishing interferes with work, quit work!”[…]
Ask any New Orleans resident, and he’ll tell you that what happened in the city in August and September was only partially an act of God. The failures that spawned the worst disaster in American history were predominantly man-made, the result of too many years of incompetence, neglect and hubris[…]
Julio Basas had seen some big rubs, and knew there should be a big deer hanging around the area. The Morgan City hunter also had seen a faint trail the buck was using — when the water was low enough to reveal damp soil.[…]
OK, so they may not be much good to eat, but the bull reds are so thick in Riverside Bay on the west side of the Mississippi River that anglers wanting something tugging on their strings can’t help but get some action.[…]
If you were one of the hunters who had an abysmal duck opener, cheer up. Better days are yet to come.[…]
“If the wind doesn’t blow you off the lake, you can catch some good trout right now,” said Capt. Norman Rester with A-Speck Charters (318-481-0049). “Last Thursday, Friday and Saturday, we did real well. And just the other day, a friend of mine caught 15 trout in 15 minutes.”[…]
“Not bad for a marsh buck!”
How many times had I heard those words?[…]
If the teal season is a taste of things to come, 2007 should be a banner year for Lakes Salvador and Cataouatche duck hunters.[…]