Deer Hunting
How to prepare a trophy buck for mounting
Putting on her taxidermy hat, Garrett said these steps are critical for maximizing full shoulder trophy deer mounts. […]
Year: 2018
Columns
Cooking with ‘cajun spice’
Buddy Callahan looks like anything but a Cajun with curly blond hair, fair complexion, a stocky build and a grizzled Van Dyke beard.[…]
Features
Black magic
From short jokes to hand-me-downs that don’t quite fit, it’s tough being the smallest kid in the family.[…]
Deer Hunting
Nikon’s BLACK riflescopes
Engineered to deliver your longest shots with confident precision, the new BLACK FX1000 is set to raise eyebrows and expectations among long-range shooters.[…]
Features
Magic Man
Capt. Lloyd Landry is apparently a master of black magic. It’;s clear he spends his free time reading tarot cards, casting tea leaves and studying the works of Aleister Crowley.[…]
Ask Captain Paul
Capt. Paul’s Fishing Edge for Lake Borgne
As a longtime fisherman of the Lake Borgne area, I had a vast library of locations to fish – and more than 160 of these are included in the Lake Borgne Edge file.[…]
Fishing
BaitCloud
You can only be at one fishing location at a time — so what if you could make that spot more productive by attracting baitfish and gamefish to your specific area?[…]
Deer Hunting
Making the big bucks
The past several seasons, big buck contests and social media posts have exploded with impressive photos of true trophy bucks, more than most anyone can remember in the recent past. […]
Sidebars
Late night delight
Anyone fortunate enough to see the Delta’s offshore waters at night, knows the incredible vision of flood lights illuminating the many oil and gas platforms. The bright stuff is intended for human safety, but fish know how to leverage this bait-gathering influence to their benefit.[…]
Sidebars
New gear review
With all the buzz around new pedal drive kayaks, Bonafide launched a new paddle kayak that is feature-packed for serious kayak anglers at an entry level price. Bonafide is a sister company of the wildly popular kayak accessory brand, YakAttack[…]
Deer Hunting
Tink’s Black Label
If one scent product is iconic in the deer-hunting industry, it’s Tink’s #69 Doe-in-Rut. So how do you make the best better?[…]
Ducks
How to prepare trophy ducks
The reasons duck hunters choose for mounting a particular bird are as varied as the waterfowl family itself. Regardless of why a bird is chosen for a trip to the taxidermist, duck hunters generally agree they want a finished product worthy for display.[…]
Deer Hunting
Cashing in on big bucks
Pam Streeter works in the banking business, and she plays in the woods. But she’ll tell you the same principles for making “big bucks” apply in both worlds.[…]
Columns
The VOSI revisited
With Thanksgiving Day approaching, I’m compiling a list of the many things to be thankful for.[…]
Deer Hunting
Follow this advice to see more deer
While sitting in my ground blind last season watching 15 deer second-lining down the lane I was hunting, I was struck by deer movement — and how it’s really the only factor that matters.[…]
Fishing
Z-Man Bait BinderZ tackle bags
Hard-sided tackle boxes are so 80s! They are bulky and create a lot of wasted space. And if you’re using mostly soft-plastic lures, it’s inconvenient to store them in hard tackle boxes while keeping them in their factory bags.[…]