It all began with a photograph.
Amber Bordelon sent it to Louisiana Sportsman magazine to see if they would print it. It looked like an avalanche of sac-a-lait, catfish, and bream.[…]
In the days before levees channeled the Big Muddy, Oak River was a natural funnel for the mighty Mississippi. For centuries it was a conduit for fresh, muddy water, and silt and sediment gradually built up significant ridges that line Oak River to this day.[…]
The first time I met Bob Mitcham, he had so much fishing equipment it took a 25-foot step-in cargo van to haul it all around.[…]
There is a certain mentality I have that makes me want to roll over and pull the covers over my head on the exact morning I’ve been waiting on to get in the deer stand.[…]
They’re kind of like the short stop of your tackle box, only without all the glamor and star power. Indeed, grubs are a multi-talented category of soft plastics whose lack of fanfare starkly contrasts their versatility.[…]
You’ve heard of “controlled aggression.” Well, you can call this aggressive finesse.[…]
Don’t worry about extreme low tides and marsh-emptying north winds: Head to this collection of platforms to mop up on delectable sheepshead.[…]
The incredible lunker bass phenomenon on Toledo Bend is unprecedented. If you think about it, there has been no other time in Louisiana bass angling history when any lake has delivered so many bass weighing 10 pounds or more.[…]
Louisiana is one of the sleeper states in terms of producing big bucks. While places like Kansas and Illinois get all the limelight, Bayou State hunters know there are some real giants roaming our forests.[…]
I’ve had the privilege to travel all over the country for work. I’ve hunted throughout the Deep South, and I’ve fished from Texas to Virginia and almost every state in between.[…]
February is the coldest month of the year, but it’s also the beginning of the big-bass season. Learn all you need to know to put more fish in the boat.[…]
Somehow, Louisiana missed out on the wonderful tradition of smoking seafood. We do everything else but smoke it.[…]
In a scene that could have come straight from Alfred Hitchcock’s thriller “The Birds,” take a look at this video to see what a hunting party encountered earlier this month in Arkansas on the way in to their blind. […]
Jeff Banderet has no illusions when it comes to deer hunting, and uses the 150-inch 8-point trophy buck he killed Jan. 17 in Claiborne County, Miss. as a perfect example. […]
Conservationists across the globe are celebrating World Wetlands Day on Feb. 2 to raise awareness of the value of wetlands preservation.[…]
When Dustin Rivers set his hook Tuesday morning over a treetop near Carrice Creek at Toledo Bend, he knew he had a good fish – but he wasn’t expecting a lunker bass. […]