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Crow-Magnon Man
When it comes to game birds, the wild turkey has no rival. Like nothing else in nature, the reluctant fliers are respected, admired and cursed by hunters from sea to shining sea.[…]
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Two-Minute Warning
No one will ever convince me that there is a tougher game animal on the North American continent than the Eastern wild turkey.[…]
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Ready, Set, Fish!
April signals the arrival of many spring traditions across Louisiana — among them Jazz Fest, crawfish boils and strawberries.[…]
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APT Moniker
Fog wrapped up the Mississippi River passes as sunlight slowly beat back the darkness. And so we sat at Venice Marina, chatting and watching workers repair hurricane damage to the facility.[…]
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Compliments of Concordia
Jody Perrault and Travis Brown struggled to bring their sack of bass to the scales at the conclusion of the Bass Busters Team Trail kick-off tournament at Lake Concordia last February.[…]
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Turkey Season Primer
I was in my sixth decade of life before I was even remotely interested in spring turkey hunting.[…]
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The Great Bait Debate
Those fish aren’t gonna hit that plastic,” my fishing buddy said emphatically more than a decade ago.[…]
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Ditch Digger
The wind whipped across Toledo Bend the day after a front passed, and Joe Joslin wasn’t look forward to running north from his camp to the relative protection of Six Mile Creek.[…]
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Plucky Pontchartrain
The first thing that stood out to me was just how clear the water was. I mean, this was Lake Pontchartrain — post Katrina.[…]
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Cover: March 2006
Hear that? That’s the sound of millions of bass moving to the beds.[…]
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Spring Fling
Kirk Stansel was worried when he finally made it back to his lodge after Hurricane Rita tore through Southwest Louisiana in September.[…]
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Sportsman Survivor
Time travel is a scary proposition.
For one thing, you never know if the portal you slide down is two ways. I mean, really, when you’re vaporized from one era and reconstructed in another, is there any guarantee you’ll be able to get back to where you started?[…]
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Marsh Olympics
It was still dark in the pre-dawn hours of a Thursday morning when I shook hands with Capt. Chad Dufrene and we sat down for breakfast at Rose’s Café in Golden Meadow.[…]
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Shrouded Gem
Folks living in the northern portion of the state don’t have far to look when seeking good fishing waters.[…]
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A Winn is a Winn
With over 600,000 acres, Louisiana’s Kisatchie National Forest can seem an overwhelming place to find a turkey, much less to end a hunt successfully.[…]
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Down But Not Out
The cold blustery days of February signal prime time on the Midnight Lump. This legendary fish magnet, located roughly 22 miles off the mouth of Southwest Pass, is an ancient salt dome rising from 450 feet of cobalt blue water.[…]