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May 30, 2023
HomeAuthorsChris Berzas

Articles by Chris Berzas

About Chris Berzas
Chris Berzas has fished and hunted in the Bayou State ever since he could hold a rod and shoot a shotgun. Berzas has been a freelancer featured in newspapers, magazines, television and DVDs since 1989.
Deer Hunting

Indian Bayou Area offers more deer-hunting opportunities

November 1, 2012 Chris Berzas

Directly across the Atchafalaya River on its western bank in St. Landry and St. Martin parishes, another 28,500 acres of mixed swamps and hardwood bottomlands provide even more public access to deer hunting. […]

Inshore Fishing

Big Lake reds schooling up, making for easy fishing

October 29, 2012 Chris Berzas

These were rather big “school” reds. Slot reds in the upper limits, really! […]

Cobia

Cobia thick south of Cameron Parish

October 14, 2012 Chris Berzas

Kaplan’s Skip Floyd launched and headed south from the Cameron Jetties, running 15 miles out to the marker buoys for cobia. […]

Inshore Fishing

Flounder migration sets up easy fishing on Big Lake

October 7, 2012 Chris Berzas

It’s the time of the year again for some scrumptious, tasty slabs of fillets – and lots of them! […]

Other Hunting

Annual cookoff a great squirrel celebration

October 1, 2012 Chris Berzas

Do you want to be declared the 2012 world champion squirrel chef, and at the same time help families in need? […]

Other Hunting

Berzas’ Opening Day Squirrel Gravy Recipe

October 1, 2012 Chris Berzas

Berzas’ Opening Day Squirrel Gravy Recipe […]

Contents

Bushytail Booyah: Making the most of the opening weekend of squirrel season

October 1, 2012 Chris Berzas

Sammy Guillory of Breaux Bridge was a man on a mission near the end of one of his first hunts during the 2011 Louisiana squirrel season. […]

General

Central Basin offers youth squirrel hunts and fall fishing opportunities

September 27, 2012 Chris Berzas

On Saturday September 22nd, youth squirrel hunters were treated to the first chances at scoring on Atchafalaya Basin fox and cat squirrels for the 2012-13 hunting season. […]

Inshore Fishing

Battling big reds on Big Lake

August 21, 2012 Chris Berzas

Captains Nick and Mary Poe were on the hunt recently.

Nick, Mary’s son, was certain his mother wanted more than just trout action, so they motored to an area where he had struck gold the day before. […]

Freshwater Fishing

Chicot produces hot August slab crappie

August 14, 2012 Chris Berzas

There is no way the heat of August will stop Glynn Lavergne from finding sac-a-lait in Evangeline Parish’s Chicot Lake. […]

Inshore Fishing

Sabine Lake and nearby beaches delivering trophy specks

August 8, 2012 Chris Berzas

Saturday morning found Capt. Robby Trahan of Johnson’s Bayou scrambling. […]

Inshore Fishing

Small boat, Big Lake, no problem

July 20, 2012 Chris Berzas

OK then, you have a small boat, you want to fish for specks and reds, and you think you can’t do it. But you can. […]

Freshwater Fishing

Little-known Cocodrie Lake provides summertime crappie action

July 17, 2012 Chris Berzas

To stay on sac-a-lait during the summer takes commitment, skill and, of all things, the dire need to relocate. That’s exactly how 68-year old Harold “Boudin” Vidrine of Bayou Chicot and his buddy Ronald “Blanc” Manuel of Ville Platte surmised the summer sac-a-lait situation. […]

Deer Hunting

WMA deer harvest, hunter efforts down last season

June 19, 2012 Chris Berzas

An analysis of the 2011-12 managed deer hunts on wildlife management areas revealed that total harvests was down by approximately 700 deer when compared to the 2010-11 hunting seasons. […]

Contents

Almost There!

October 30, 2007 Chris Berzas

There’s no other wildlife management area quite like it. […]

Contents

Finicky But Fun

January 25, 2007 Chris Berzas

My response is simple … Fish HARD!

Take last February as an example. […]

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