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7-Mile Itch
Craig Monroe eased his 22-foot Triton SeaFlight up to the fish-cleaning dock at Venice Marina.[…]
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Breakfast Beaters
“How hard could this be?” I asked myself as my eyes darted from one flock of teal to another. “Don’t know about the rest off these guys, but I’ll be heading back for breakfast before there’s even the slightest sliver of sky between the sun and the horizon.”[…]
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Day-After Doves
A hangover descends over Louisiana dove hunters the Monday after opening weekend. Getting to shoot our guns for two days after we haven’t been able to shoot them for almost six months is on the same level as tossing back two Hurricanes after six months of staying sober.[…]
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2008-09 WMA Forecast
Dramatic changes in the “muzzleloader” deer hunting season, now known as the “primitive weapons” season, high gas prices and extensive flooding in one region of the state are among the headlines before hunters pick up their shotguns, rifles, compound bows and crossbows to hunt their favorite game — big or small — in 2008-09.[…]
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Behind the Line
When Chris Paul pulls up from beyond the three-point line to drain a shot, his effort is rewarded with one more point than he would have made had his feet been in front of the line.[…]
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Yellow Fever
Most people shudder at the though of catching yellow fever. The dreaded disease, which is contracted from infected mosquitos, was last recorded in New Orleans in 1905.[…]
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123 Big Buck Lane
Keith Barre watched a couple of 8-points on his Washington Parish lease grow, consistently collecting pictures of them from trail cameras.[…]
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Cover: August 2008-Hunting
LSU’s telemetry study is discovering some amazing facts about Louisiana’s bucks.[…]
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Cover: August 2008-Fishing
Speckled trout action couldn’t be much better right now. Just ask Renee Brazzel, who caught this 7-pounder during a recent trip out of Venice with Capt. Brandon Carter.[…]
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Scratching that Redfish Itch
In one fluid motion, I made a cast toward the little trenasse that emptied into the canal we were fishing, located just past the mouth of Mosquito Bayou on the northeast side of Mosquito Bay.
Also in fluid motion, I raised my leg in crane-like fashion, and used the top of my foot to itch whatever decided to bite the back of my calf while I wasn’t looking. […]
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Window of Opportunity
It’s amazing the number of infomercials on television now that promise the impossible on an installment plan.[…]
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Pleasure at the Pump
I can remember when a quarter’s worth of gasoline would putt-putt you around the lake all day long. Today, you can’t motor away from the dock on a quarter’s worth of gas.[…]
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Huey, Johnny and Eugene
Huey Olivier’s well-equipped World Cat left Cypremort Point shortly after sunrise more than ready for a day of catching big speckled trout at close-in oilfield rigs in the Gulf of Mexico.[…]
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The Nation’s Toilet
During his exile in Michigan, our old Tigerland chum Eddie Fleeks chummed up with some of the locals who showed him the ropes of the local deer-hunting. Not that there was much to teach.[…]
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Revered Remnants
Anglers who fish the Manila Village area located in Barataria Bay just to the south of New Orleans may or may not know the historical significance of the spot.[…]
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Gain after Pain
Those who call Louisiana home are used to battling Mother Nature. Oppressive heat and humidity, hurricanes and the occasional ice storm are taken in stride as the price to pay for living in the Sportsman’s Paradise.[…]