Features from November 2018
Venice is arguably the ultimate fishing destination.
From short jokes to hand-me-downs that don't quite fit, it's tough being the smallest kid in the family.
One of the most fascinating things weekend bass tournament fishermen can witness is professional anglers picking apart their local lakes when major tournaments roll into town.
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.
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.
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.
Whatever the reason — from flooded corn fields up north, milder winters or any number of conspiracy theories floating around online — duck hunters in the Bayou State just haven’t seen masses of birds migrating to Louisiana’s dissolving wetlands compared to just a few generations ago.
“We are very blessed,” Johnny Watkins said. “There are very few places where you fish bass on a shrimp pattern.
Columns - November 2018
- Louisiana has several great freshwater fishing lakes that offer a variety of species like bass, bream and catfish. Also, don't forget the excellent crappie fishing (white perch in North Louisiana, sac-a-lait in the South).
- 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.
- Buddy Callahan looks like anything but a Cajun with curly blond hair, fair complexion, a stocky build and a grizzled Van Dyke beard.
- If you want to catch bass or redfish, you better get crackin'. Kaplan-based artificial lure manufacturer Zach Dubois, who specializes in soft plastics, has watched the fairly new Crackin' Craw - a crawfish imitation -; take the bass fishing world by storm. And to his pleasant surprise, it's also become a go-to bait for redfish along the coast.
- In this month's Creature Feature column, Jerald Horst tells you everything you wanted to know — and more — about differences between gizzard and threadfin shad.
- The process of sighting in a crossbow scope takes several steps — but it’s invaluable to a hunte when that big buck walks out.
- A good 5-gallon bucket has multiple uses as hunting season cranks up this fall.
- Louisiana’s 2018-19 duck season begins on Nov. 10 in both the West and Coastal Zones. The first segment runs through Dec. 2, and reopens on Dec. 15 for the second split, which ends on Jan. 20.
- It's finally November, and we all know what that means: For my fellow members of the deer hunting community, the last nine months have slowly and steadily built up to right now. Untold amounts of toil, sweat and treasure have been expended to get to deer season.
- Buddy Callahan looks like anything but a Cajun with curly blond hair, fair complexion, a stocky build and a grizzled Van Dyke beard.
- With Thanksgiving Day approaching, I'm compiling a list of the many things to be thankful for.
Outdoor Updates - November 2018
- At its October meeting, the Louisiana Wildlife and Fisheries Commission approved a declaration of emergency that expands the current cervid carcass importation ban to include Louisiana lands east of the Mississippi River.
Field Notes - November 2018
- How to create a shock absorber between the main braid and your lures.
- The waterfowl study leader for the LDWF comes across hunters’ efforts at producing realistic decoy spreads from his seat in the plane. Here's his advice for the best set-ups.
- Most Louisiana anglers have seen, either in person or in videos, redfish in water that’s so clear, it looks like it should have been delivered by the Kentwood man.
- Punch skirts are popular with many bass anglers because they turn normal creature baits into essentially jig presentations.
- Caleb Meyer recycles old lures by melting them down and pouring them into his own soft-plastic mold.
- Nothing like topwater frog …
Hot Spots - November 2018
- November is all about numbers of bass on Caney Lake - and here's how you can catch them.
- The trout transition was delayed this fall, but fish have finally moved inside.
- If you want to slay the crappie on Lake D’Arbonne this month, you’ve got to search the sloughs — that’s where the fish will be, gorging on shad and filling up for the winter.