Events & Announcements
Body of missing boater found in Morehouse Parish
Search-and-rescue teams located the body of a missing boater on Jones Lake in Morehouse Parish today (March 16).[…]
Month: March 2012
Fishing Tournaments
Elite Series rookies kick off 2012 season
Fletcher Shryock competed last month in the Bassmaster Classic, so his first official week on the job as a Bassmaster Elite Series pro wasn’t the awakening it might have been.[…]
Fishing Tournaments
Comeaux, Lee win Louisiana Sportsman Open
Mark Comeaux and Mike Lee seemed to be way out of the running for the top prize of the Louisiana Sportsman Open bass tournament, which wrapped up today in conjunction with the Louisiana Sportsmen’s Show.[…]
Deer Hunting
Denham Springs man scores Yamaha ATV in Louisiana Sportsman Big Buck Contest
Not too many people alive are as lucky as Ron Holden.[…]
Events & Announcements
Search on for missing Morehouse Parish boater
State and local officials are searching for a 51-year-old Jones man who didn’t return from a weekend fishing trip to Jones Lake in Morehouse Parish, the Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries reported today.[…]
Fishing Tournaments
Sherman, Lowenthal lead Louisiana Sportsman Open after first day
Ken Sherman and Marc Lowenthal said before they hit the water for the start of the two-day Louisiana Sportsman Open bass tournament, but when the first-day scales settled the team held the lead with a five-fish limit weighing 21.80 pounds.[…]
Fishing
LDWF issues Plaquemines Parish fishing citations
Two men were issued citations for alleged fishing violations on March 5 by the Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries, the agency reported.[…]
Apex Predator
Picking the pockets
After archery season ends I’m a sad pup. Though after putting the rod in the boat for the first time in months my tail’s a wagging. It’s time to go after those bass and frogs.[…]
Fishing Tournaments
Texas angler weighs 14-pound bass into Toledo Bend tournament
It’s a good thing Ryan Pinkston was fishing the Bass-N-Bucks Toledo Bend tournament on Feb. 25. Otherwise, no one would have believed the fishing story he had to tell.[…]
Events & Announcements
Louisiana Sportsman Big Buck Contest offers Yamaha ATV
Deer hunters dream of that big buck stepping into their sights, and if you’ve been lucky that dream has come true in the past couple of years.[…]
Bass Fishing
Louisiana Sportsman Open to be richest South Louisiana bass tournament
The Louisiana Sportsman Open bass tournament – South Louisiana’s richest tournament – is just more than a week away, with the first-place team walking away with $10,000 and the total payout based on 100 boats reaching nearly $28,000.[…]
Events & Announcements
Louisiana Sportsmen’s Show has something for everyone
Louisiana’s largest outdoor show takes over the Lamar-Dixon Expo Center, March 9-11, to showcase the latest and greatest products the outdoor community has to offer.[…]
Ask Captain Paul
Don’t get LOOPed in
Dear Capt. Paul:
I would like to set waypoints surrounding the LOOP restricted area as to help avoid the big nasty gray boats. Would you have waypoints and the leased blocks in which the LOOP is located that would help mark the area in my GPS?[…]
Columns
The house search
Nothing is more terrifying to a homeowner than a “hot” burglary. That’s what detectives call incidents where cold-blooded cretins, crawling out of their skins with drug addictions, creep a house with the occupants home, generally asleep.[…]
Columns
Pimp my ‘yak
An unseasonably warm winter saw many kayak fishermen in Louisiana enjoying an extended season without the need to bundle up and venture out on cold, blustery days.[…]
Columns
Unwelcome transplant
It seems that few people, at least in the United States, have much use for the common carp, Cyprinus carpio. But in its native lands, Europe and Asia, it is loved and esteemed.[…]