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The Hopedale Hustle
Spring has sprung, and that means speckled trout are either on the move to the bigger fringe bays, or they’re already there.[…]
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Tax Day Turkeys
My story begins a week prior to the opening of the 2009 turkey season. I had not had the opportunity to scout and listen for gobbling activity on the small tract of land in East Feliciana Parish that I hunt, so the Friday before the youth weekend, I left Baton Rouge with the my cameras in hopes of hearing and photographing some turkeys.[…]
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Offshore Train Wreck
The red snapper fishery off the Louisiana coast was once a dream world that lured a new captain named Tommy Pellegrin into making a living pulling the succulent fish from around the many rigs and wrecks littering the Gulf.[…]
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Saltwater Series: Redfish Bay
Venice is the most intimidating place to fish in all of coastal Louisiana — so much water, so much wind, so many ship wakes, so many dangerous sand bars and mud flats.[…]
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Deer Dynamics: Carnivore Predation
With stealth, a lone coyote moves through the woodlot, its nose to the ground. Periodically, the canine stops and visually scans the timber.In the near distance is a female deer.[…]
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Small Fry
Old habits die hard. Don’t believe me? Go ask Bass Anglers Sportsman Society founder Ray Scott, who spearheaded the catch-and-release phenomenon in the 1970s how much trouble he had convincing a bunch of backwoods bubbas to release bass back into Lake Guntersville rather than “Lake Crisco.”[…]
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Homeowner shoots armed invader
It was a drizzly, miserable December 2009 night in Marrero, a small river town across from New Orleans on the west bank of the Mississippi River.[…]
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2010 Speck Forecast
My grandfather told me that people who rub crystal balls must sometimes eat glass. When one rubs the ball this year to get a prediction on the upcoming speckled trout season, he almost gets the feeling that it might be better to just eat the glass up front and give up on the rubbing.[…]
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Heavyweight Slugfest
In the dense night air of the remote northwestern Terrebonne Parish freshwater marsh-swamp, gills might have been more appropriate for breathing than lungs.[…]
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Cover: April 2010
After a cold, wet winter, anglers are dying to get after some speckled trout. But will the trout be there to welcome anglers to springtime?[…]
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Devil’s in the Details
Sometimes when you’re crappie fishing, it seems you can’t go wrong. When the white perch are biting, they gulp down just about anything you offer in any manner you choose.[…]
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Cover: March 2010
Across the Bayou State, temperatures are finally warming, turning bass and crappie into frisky feeders.[…]
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The Red Solution
“The solution to any problem — work, love, money, whatever — is to go fishing, and the worse the problem, the longer the trip should be.”[…]
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Scrap Iron
The first time I ever laid eyes on Josh Sandel, at the campground on Three Rivers Wildlife Management Area, he reminded me of a big dominant male silverback gorilla.[…]
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Fast Feathers
When the longbeards start talking to the timber, every Louisiana sportsman concentrates on finding a place to hunt, and lucky for us, the Bayou State has productive public lands.[…]
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Deer Dynamics: Casting and Hierarchy
The rut has come and gone. Bucks that survived hunting season are dropping their battered racks. Though the whitetails are no longer at war for dominance, the competitiveness still exists — even in the off season.[…]