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School’s In
The morning had barely begun, but Capt. Troy Robichaux already was speeding across Lake Raccourci with one eye glued to his GPS.[…]
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Can’t Eat Just One
Two years of tough red snapper fishing have taken their toll on anglers who count the delectable dwellers of the deep among their favorites. Especially off of heavily pressured areas such as Grand Isle, offshore anglers are eager to use every advantage to land their share.[…]
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Permanent Plots
Let’s face it: Plowing, soil testing, liming, fertilizing, planting and killing weeds to maintain a green field includes exhausting work and often great expense. A green field, like a two-edged sword, can and will attract and feed deer.[…]
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Treasure in the Pan
The immense, steel-sided tanker slithered through the dense fog as it made its approach to the mouth of Southwest Pass.[…]
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Tarpon Tales
John DeBlieux had set out all but the short lines, which would go right in the prop wash.[…]
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Mucho Mackerel
The wheels on the shiny black Explorer spun and squealed. The outboard on the Pro-Line roared. But nothing moved. Neither was budging on that backdown ramp. The pot-bellied guy at the boat’s wheel wouldn’t give up.[…]
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Ship Shoal Slammers
Three anglers admired the all-too-uncommon spectacle of a gently rolling half-foot open Gulf swell at the same time they readied their long Carolina-rigged leaders in anticipation for the captain to give the OK to drop baits to the bottom.[…]
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Summertime, Seabrook and Specks
Capt. Eddie Adams (504-975-7902) met me at the Bonnabel Boat Launch just as daylight peeked over the eastern sky. I loaded my gear into his 22-foot Skeeter bay boat, and we headed toward Seabrook.[…]
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A Sight To See
The captain pointed toward a slight undulation on the surface. “Eleven o’clock,” Chuck Uzzle said. “Do you see it?”[…]
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The Young and the Restless
In his two books, The Helldivers Rodeo and The Hellpig Hunt, Louisiana Sportsman contributor Humberto Fontova makes a convincing case that the drive to harvest living creatures is still alive on some level in every human.[…]
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Captain’s Choice
Coming home empty-handed from an offshore trip is like digging a well but never finding water — the hard work can’t be justified.[…]
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Around the Horn
There is a stark contrast between the launches that get you to Acadiana’s hottest speck, flounder and redfish action.[…]
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Cover: July 2004
If you cut your buzzbait off as soon as the sun gets above the trees, you don’t know what you’re missing.[…]
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Cover: July 2004-Offshore
The salty coast is alive this month. Anglers have almost too many options.[…]
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Cover: June 2004
There is certainly no shortage of options for Louisiana outdoorsmen this month.[…]
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Fishing Fathers
Some of the most-important life lessons I ever learned, my dad taught me in boathouses while we fished, usually with the rain pouring down.[…]