The call to Doc Fontaine seemed perfunctory, a mere formality — almost pointless. After all, traditionally, mooching a Grand Isle camp for a weekend in February ain’t too hard.[…]
Lipless crankbaits are not for the cowardly.
With all those exposed treble hooks, the faint-hearted have a hard time seeing past the snag waiting to happen.[…]
Fishing lure colors are a hotly contested conundrum. One angler swears by black-and-blue, while another won’t throw anything but watermelon red.[…]
The salvinia that has infested Caddo Lake has forced many bass anglers to adjust their approaches to fishing the lake.[…]
Roughly 15 hours of every day of my childhood were spent fishing in Southwest Florida. In my late teens, I put aside the rod after picking up the guitar.[…]
Rows of houses out in the water looked in every way like a regular, quaint neighborhood, except totally lacking in roads.[…]
Hunting and fishing are huge recreational factors for those of us who, by the grace of God, were born in Louisiana. It’s just engrained in our psyche. Bred into our very genes.[…]
Cobia feed from the surface of the water down to the bottom, often over 100 feet deep. And they will eat almost anything.[…]
It’s time to brush the dust off the boat and catch some fish! Learn where and how to catch bass, speckled trout, crappie and more.[…]
There are as many ways to catch crappie as there are names for the tasty fish.[…]
Turkey hunting on the U.S. Corps of Engineers’ Old River and Lock Area will be allowed March 23 through April 7, the Louisiana Department of Wildlife & Fisheries reported today.[…]
Over the weekend, many East Zone hunters were greeted with fog and temperatures reflective of a nice late March morning when they headed to their blinds. […]
The venison fajitas and sheepshead ceviche were the hit of the evening. As usual for the post-Endymion festivities, Doc Fontaine’s Bourbon street bungalow was packed to suffocation.[…]
I was sitting on an East Texas pipeline, cradling my 7 1/2-inch Ruger Super Redhawk in my lap, watching a pile of corn that had been scattered about the area and trampled with hundreds of hog tracks.[…]
The best day Capt. Nick Poe ever had on Calcasieu Lake was during February of last year. While wading with a friend, the two young anglers caught 30 trout over 4 pounds.[…]
Changes in water temperatures are usually the catalyst that causes trout to transition from marshes to the lakes and vice versa.[…]