Currents
More bad news for your boat?
Something for all of us to keep in mind as our country skates down the steep sloap of socialism is that governments and businesses usually operate in exactly opposite ways.[…]
Columns
Ask Captain Paul
What’s best route to Shell Beach’s outside?
Dear Capt. Paul:
Is it possible for you to show an easier route from Shell Beach to Breton Sound? How do I get to Bay Eloi, Black Bay and Breton Island.[…]
Fishing
Manuals provide flushing directions
I have been writing columns for more years than I care to admit. In all those years, I cannot remember a single column that generated as much reader response as the one I wrote about flushing your engines.[…]
Columns
La. stone crabs are a summertime treat
Marsh fishermen are well aware that Louisiana has lots of crabs. They seem to be everywhere in fresh, brackish and salt marshes, and end up being guests of honor at countless seafood boils in coastal Louisiana.[…]
Currents
Keep your hands off my PFD
My children, who, to their great fortune, inherited most of the good traits of their mother and few of the undesirable ones of their father, have always gazed longingly at the privileges society grants adults.[…]
Columns
Time to tackle those mighty gobbules
I read where the University of North Dakota is the latest sports program to be targeted by the politically correct crowd. […]
Columns
D’Arbonne bass want big baits
This month we’ll be fishing D’Arbonne Lake, located near Monroe, where the bass will be in the post-spawn period.[…]
Columns
Chug Head a hit with topwater anglers
It isn’t surprising that an innovative artificial lure manufacturer who lives in a region where he can catch 15 different species of fish in his favorite cove has come up with the Chug Head.[…]
Columns
DOD changes course on military brass sale
Unless you’ve been shooting from your own personal ammo dump over the last year, you’re aware of the acute shortage of sporting ammunition available to shooters across the U.S.[…]
Columns
Get schooled by humans, not fish
A guide told me of a trip he had with a customer from Pennsylvania. For the sake of this story, we’ll call the guide Joe.[…]
Columns
Springfield XDm melds into shooter’s hand
Springfield Armory, famous for high-end 1911-style pistols, introduced a new model polymer pistol in 2001 that so completely overshadowed its production of those models, the company image was taken over by the new pistol.[…]
Ask Captain Paul
Is there a Sulphur Mine near Cocodrie?
Dear Capt. Paul:
I have heard of a Sulphur Mine south of Cocodrie, possibly in the Lake Pelto area.[…]
Columns
Size limits for crappie not always good
Hotspots come and go in fisheries management. Several things drive management controversy. One is that fishermen are very passionate about their pursuit, and like with other things that arouse passions, a lot of folks adopt the position of being an expert on what they love so much.[…]
Columns
What happened on the Red River
I finished in 20th place on the Red River in the 2009 Bassmaster Classic. I completely misread what the bass were doing. Since I assumed the male bass were preparing the nests, and the females hadn’t come in to spawn yet, my game plan was to fish the deeper water where I thought the bigger female bass were holding and not fish the shallow water.[…]
Currents
Want bigger trout? Read this book
Biologists are dorks.[…]
Columns
Election drives gun sales, carry applications
Since the recent presidential election, sales of AR-15-style rifles have gone off the charts, and some manufacturers now report backlog orders for their rifles to number in the thousands.[…]