I recently received an e-mail from a reader asking if I could help identify which wire is the ignition wire for his 1999 outboard motor. He stated that he was considering hooking up an onboard DC alternator charger.[…]
Dear Capt. Paul:
Where is Breton Island?[…]
May’s an excellent month to fish the Red River because the bass have finished their spawn and are starting to move from the bank out to deeper water. But they’re not all the way to the deep places where they tend to hold in the summertime.[…]
In 1993, the Louisiana Legislature picked a state fish. It wasn’t the much-hyped tournament fish, the largemouth bass; it wasn’t any one of the glamorous snapper species; it wasn’t even the beloved speckled trout.[…]
Just a few years ago, Louisiana Sportsman published a feature story about a hunter whose technique of choice was taking really, really long shots at deer.[…]
Wow, what a winter we had! We saw record rainfall totals, cold temperatures, high winds and tides so low that many waterways were reduced to mud flats.[…]
I enjoy fishing Lake D’Arbonne near West Monroe. During April, some of the bass at D’Arbonne still will be bedding. To catch the most and the biggest bass at D’Arbonne in April, watch for the shad spawn.[…]
What do Bigfoot, the alien autopsy at Roswell, Manbearpig and stand-up kayak fishing all have in common?[…]
How old is that redfish? Fishermen are, for the most part, intensely curious about their quarry.[…]
Dear Capt. Paul:
Could you tell how to get from the public launch at Port Sulphur to Chaland Pass?[…]
Hunters in Areas 1 and 6, constituting all of Southeast Louisiana, would be able to hunt through Feb. 15 if changes proposed by the Louisiana Wildlife and Fisheries Commission are ultimately adopted.[…]
The Deer need your help this time of year.
Look around: There is no green except for food plots leftover from hunting season, and they are in need of fertilizer (nitrogen only lasts 90 days ). And The herd is coming off a harsh winter and rut, so they are run down.[…]
Andrea “Andi” Sanders of Milam, who has owned one of the nation’s leading artificial lure manufacturers since the mid-1990s, is proud of one of the company’s newest products, a skirt with a metal bead and two built-in rattles giving extra ooomph to a soft plastic, particularly a Texas-rigged plastic worm, plastic lizard or creature bait.[…]
Most people are concerned about fishing for bass in the Atchafalaya Basin because the water can be up or down, it can be muddy or clear and it can change quickly.[…]
Winter officially ends this month.
For New Orleans Saints fans, the winter of 2009-10 will go down as the most enjoyable season in the entire history of the Bayou State.[…]
No, I don’t mean those wonderful Louisiana canned red beans. I am talking about the fish, Caranx Crysos, a.k.a. hardtails.[…]