Cypress Grove Hunting Club is a throwback to the days of yesteryear, when there weren’t a lot of deer in the woods, and hunting clubs were large, extended family groups that passed memberships down like knightings.[…]
The red was clearly visible, relaxing just on the edge of a marshy point of grass.[…]
The Ouachita River backwater was littered with a maze of live cypress and detritus from trees long since fallen.[…]
I once heard Frank Sinatra say, “A friend in need … is a pest.”[…]
Think the bass spawn is over? Think again. River fish are just hitting their stride.[…]
Many years ago a ladder stashed inside a 20-foot boat in coastal Louisiana waters could mean only one thing: a weekend of camp maintenance in a dwelling only accessible by water deep in the marsh.[…]
March anglers curse the wind. But really, March is supposed to be windy.[…]
To a large contingent of bass anglers, any discussion of water current brings about equal parts anxiety and disgust.[…]
Capt. Bobby Stansel (left) is hoping the speck fishing will be as good this year as it was last year, when he put tackle rep Drew Davis on this lunker Big Lake speck.[…]
Floridians have Lake Okeechobee. Georgians have Lake Seminole. Alabamians have Lake Eufaula.[…]
The poor guy was blinking, shaking his head and seemed to be screaming. My passenger window was rolled up, and Bobby’s radio was BLARING Dylan’s “Like a Rolling Stone” — “How does it FEEE-EEL!” — at 1972 Warehouse levels so I couldn’t be sure.[…]
“Uncle Johnny, you didn’t wrestle a bear,” my nephew Ryan McLellan said in a hunting camp a few years ago when I told him the story of the night I wrestled a 450-pound Canadian black bear and pinned him to the mat until the count of 10. “That’s a lie, or at best, it’s one of your tall tales.”[…]
The weather was standard South Louisiana issue: Heavy clouds draped the sky despite predictions, and hard southeast winds threatened to sweep the anglers off the boat.[…]
Reggio has to be the Rodney Dangerfield of fishing destinations; it gets absolutely no respect. It’s ignored, overlooked and disregarded by a vast majority of anglers even though its located smack dab in the middle of two of the most popular launching sites in all of Southeast Louisiana.[…]
Well, let’s try this again,” I said as Clay pushed the boat out from the muddy Dugdemona river bank. This was the second time in a week that my cousin Clay Scoggin, his son Jake and I had come here to participate in a North Louisiana springtime ritual: yo-yo fishing.[…]
Calcasieu Lake calls out to trout anglers like whale-rich waters beckoned Ishmael and Captain Ahab. The lure of landing a trophy or just the pure mystery behind why it is such a strong speckled trout producer summons anglers from hundreds of miles out.[…]