Did you ever hear of Wolf Creek, Duck Slough, Muddy Bayou, Pocosin, Whiskey Chitto creeks, Dugdemona River, Chaney and Choctaw Creek, Upper and Lower Sunk lakes? Or how about Hunter Creek, Ben’s Creek, Mississippi Bayou, Sally Miller Pond or Louisiana Cypress Canal?[…]
It was early October, and the soft light of dawn revealed that the Venice Marina harbor held as many orange-vested oil clean-up crewmen as sportfishermen.[…]
Once bucks are in the height of pursuing does, their instincts for survival are somewhat diminished. Their eyes, ears and noses are focused on estrus does, and although they can still respond to threats, most of the time it takes them a few seconds longer to put two and two together.[…]
Capt. Jack Payne can see his own version of a winter wonderland from his front porch. The owner of Sweetwater Guide Service and Marina, Payne poured his pay-to-launch ramp right at the intersection of Bayous Terre Aux Boeufs and Gentilly.[…]
It was supposed to be a fishing trip, but it turned out to be more like a funeral. I guess I should be used to it by now, having lived and fished in much of the waters along our Southeast Louisiana coast most of my life.[…]
“Come see, Bwana!” Pelayo was squatting next to a slough and beckoning me over with a hand wave. “These tracks look super fresh, Bwana.”[…]
Tommy Milioto Jr. knew the deer was there. He had seen too many pictures of the fine buck. The problem was all the pictures were snapped at night.[…]
My problem with the point I’m fishing is that the bass just have to be biting better on the one across the lake.[…]
Gold is where you find it.
For Mike Hulin, gold was to be found 41 feet underground, just off the shoulder of Louisiana State Highway 319 near beautiful downtown Cypremort Point. The stocky, straw-hat wearing man excavated the spot from October 2008 into the summer of 2010, in spite of repeated setbacks.[…]
Over the last few decades, technology has dramatically altered deer hunting. With an endless variety of camouflage clothing, scent-control products, game cameras, range finders, feeders, climbing stands, pop-up blinds, cough suppressors and the like, today’s deer hunters have as many gizmos available to them as bass fishermen.[…]
Ever see those pictures on the bags of food-plot seed of fields of ankle-deep greenery, all lush and verdant?[…]
Sitting back and waiting is not a good deer-killing strategy this month. The bucks are on to us, and successful hunters will do some mid-season scouting to regain the edge.[…]
Along the forest edge, a whitetail buck hesitates beneath the overhanging branches of a pine tree. Then with ease, the animal stretches its neck up toward a particular limb and begins to rub its mouth and forehead on the limb. Closing its eyelids, it resumes this behavior on the tree.[…]
Last year I was fortunate to take two nice bucks by early December. With only one antler tag left for six more weeks of deer hunting, I decided to try something different for the rest of the season.[…]
Last season on Pearl River WMA, my focus in the Katrina Woods was browse, primarily blackberry and trumpet creeper vine. I found several areas where the trumpet creeper was being heavily eaten. Other items to focus on are travel trails, especially along the sloughs and bayous.[…]
November is always prime time for Delacroix Island trout and redfish, and after many years of fishing the marshes of Southeast Louisiana, that fact is permanently etched into my brain.[…]