Talk to the experts, and a hunter can come away with a comfortable feeling he has a reasonable chance to harvest deer, rabbits, squirrel, waterfowl, doves, turkey and feral hogs in one or more public hunting areas within a reasonable driving distance of his home in the Sportsman’s Paradise.[…]
The rut is easy for hunters, providing a time of the season when deer are moving about looking for love without a care in the world.[…]
Even though killing gets lower on our priority lists as we get older, there’s no doubt that we all want to kill something when we go hunting. […]
Some fish are cool; some aren’t. Even cold-blooded, dispassionate fisheries biologists recognize that. Sawfish are cool; pogies aren’t.[…]
In typical bureaucratic style, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers completed damming the Mississippi River Gulf Outlet on April 22 of this year.[…]
According to popular thought, September is the last hurrah for speckled trout anglers who fish out of Grand Isle. It’s almost an accepted maxim: “When Labor Day is over, so is the trout season on Grand Isle.”[…]
Some of our WMAs have some truly outstanding deer – as well as rabbits and squirrels. Find out in this issue which will be best in 2009-10.[…]
Gold spoons are like the Dallas Cowboys; you either love them or hate them, and there isn’t any room in the middle.[…]
“An almost forgotten historic site near Many (the Civil War’s Sabine Breastworks) is on its death bed. It will die slowly as it gives way to progress and surrenders to the waters of the giant Toledo Bend Reservoir.”
— Norman Richardson, The (Shreveport) Times[…]
The gaudy neon lights of the Treasure Chest Casino dominated the pre-dawn darkness at the Williams Boulevard Boat Launch in Kenner.[…]
When the Freeman-Custis Expedition explored the Red River in 1806, it became apparent that the river’s odd features hampered its commercial potential.[…]
We were working a large cove off Delacroix’s Bay Shallow, when the redfish gave its location away with a swirling turn much too large to be a mullet.[…]
What is it about a place where lots of anglers go to catch fish, and none of them want to admit where they’ve been going? By lots of anglers, I mean so many going there that it looks like a four-lane bank drive-thru on payday afternoon.[…]
Here in the Gulf South, August is traditionally the hottest month of the year. We’re all hoping this year will be the exception because our summer heat has been blistering and record-setting so far. The[…]
Put some whiskers on a cobia, and there’s no doubt it would be more like a cat than a catfish. I mean, toss a string without a hunk of stink-bait on it in front of a catfish, and watch what happens.[…]
Catching redfish out of Lafitte during the summer is a little like dancing the Cotton-Eyed Joe during dollar-pitcher night. You’ve got to be able to go forward. You’ve got to be able to go backward.[…]