Dear Capt. Paul:
I like to find potential spots on Google Earth. I have heard that the coordinates from Google Earth can be off a good bit from what a GPS unit says if you are not using the right datum.Can you tell me what datum I should when finding spots on Google Earth?[…]
As we reach the climax of a bizarre election year, what could be more bizarre than a website dedicated to having dogs vote? Thedogvote.com believes that “our nation lies in their paws.”[…]
This month, my choice of lakes for catching numbers of nice-sized bass will be False River in Pointe Coupee Parish near New Roads.[…]
Menhaden, usually called pogies in Louisiana, are certainly not a game fish. They never bite a hook, even by accident.[…]
There are many ways to determine you have arrived. […]
When I’m looking at candidates, trying to decide who should get my vote in any election, there are two things I examine that are more important to me than any others.[…]
The late, great Robert Ruark wrote for many of the big outdoor mags in the 1950s and ’60s, and began a series of columns that would become one of the all-time hunting classics, entitled “The Old Man and the Boy.”[…]
It was just a little over three years ago when Louisiana was dealt a horrific one-two blow from Katrina and Rita. […]
In October, I like to fish the Ouachita River with its plentiful cover. When the weather starts cooling down, the spotted and largemouth bass and the shad will head for the shoreline and move into the many laydowns and sandbars.[…]
Randy Lanctot, the esteemed executive director of the Louisiana Wildlife Federation, once told me that if outdoorsmen aren’t careful, they’ll conserve themselves right out of existence.[…]
In Louisiana, where the desirability of a sportfish is measured almost as much by its culinary attributes as its fighting qualities, the crevalle jack just doesn’t get any respect.[…]
Dear Capt. Paul:
What are some good redfish spots in and around Lafitte?[…]
With teal season beginning this month, and the full-fledged duck season only a little while behind it, the annual trek to the salt marshes of our coastline will begin.[…]
Dear Capt. Paul:
Can you give me any coordinates for reefs in Big Lake? I’ve only been fishing there a short amount of time and I only seem to catch trout when the birds are working. I would like to be able to catch trout anytime.[…]
Everybody was baking before and just after a mid-July weigh-in for a major-money bass tournament on a hot day at Lake Neely-Henry in Alabama.[…]
Each year when duck season closes in January, most hunters simply park their mud boats and forget about them. We usually have other things such as fishing, cruising and water skiing on our minds.[…]