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Grand Opening — Top duck-hunting tips for opening-day success
Preseason preparation is the key to success when opening day of duck season arrives. Here are some tips on ensuring you’re ready.[…]
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Old-school again — Old-fashioned deer-hunting skills
On the cover of the 1942 issue of Field and Stream is a picture of a deer hunter who has suddenly encountered a great buck, presumably after having stalked deer for hours in the snow.[…]
Bass Fishing
Brush strokes
It’s no secret that largemouth bass love to hang around submerged brush piles, especially early in the year before they are ready to head for the shallow spawning grounds.[…]
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MS Oct. 2014 Columns
Turbidity negatively affects fisheries. It reduces light penetration and, thus, reduces the production of algae that is the foundation of the food web. Eventually the fine silt particles that make water turbid settle out smothering organisms that live on the bottom, turning hard bottom areas into soft muck, and eventually filling in reservoirs.[…]
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Deer Hero
When Randy Lambert of Barnwell may not be a poker player, but he knows how to play the cards he’s been dealt at the beginning of every deer season.[…]
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Little River ditch diggers – The Intracoastal Waterway in the Little River area is a magnet for November speckled trout
The Atlantic Intracoastal Waterway stretches 3,000 miles from New Jersey to Texas, built primarily as a safe haven for military and commercial transport along the eastern seaboard.[…]
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Cover: October 2014
Hunting season is finally here, so all you have to do now is be in position to score. This issue is packed with information to help you do just that.[…]
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10 trophy buck tips, based on success
The day, Dec. 23, 1998, was nasty and getting nastier, and the weatherman’s promise of sleet and freezing rain couldn’t have been more on target, falling over the north Louisiana landscape.[…]
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Louisiana’s big buck locations
When I retired from Wildlife and Fisheries in 2007, I predicted that within five years Louisiana would have a new state record typical buck. […]
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Heresy at Pointe a la Hache
In the nine years since Hurricane Katrina, forays into one of my favorite fishing holes, Pointe a la Hache, have been few and far between, mainly due to a lack of fishing guides.[…]
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Right place, right time
How often have you heard a deer hunter say: “So many choices, so little time?” […]
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Big game on Pearl River
“Kickoff’s at seven,” Artie reminded. “So we wanna get the backstraps in the smoker by mid-afternoon. Y’all be back by then, huh? And with some backstraps? Heck we need to marinate ’em a little beforehand.”[…]
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Unlocking the marsh
The inherent challenge of fishing the Delta marsh is that “everything looks fishy.”[…]
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Venice’s fall variety includes lemons and bulls
It’s undisputed, an absolute certainty amongst saltwater anglers.
Venice is the fishing capital of Louisiana, especially in the fall of the year.[…]
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Grand Isle’s yellow October
Kim Fouquier had the nose of our 29-foot Twin Vee Catamaran in the armpit of the huge 90-foot steel shrimp trawler, putting our bow tightly into the spot on the metal beast where its big outriggers sprang from its hull. […]
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Ensuring a trophy mount
The crashing noise startled me.
It was like a sound effect from one of those old western movies during a saloon brawl, where some cowpoke always grabs a chair and smashes it over the sheriff deputy’s head. […]