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Hot Redheads and Delta Cakes
Over the years, with each generation, there always seems to be a good-looking redheaded actress that captivates audiences everywhere.[…]
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Cover: January 2008-Fishing
Capt. C.T. Williams knows that winter often offers the absolute best saltwater action of the year.[…]
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Pearl of Plaquemines
Gazing from atop the Empire Bridge in southern Plaquemines Parish, one can see literally thousands of white PVC pipes sticking up from atop oyster beds.[…]
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Bow Wow Bushytails
One advantage I had growing up out on the rural route was an early introduction to hunting. I was blessed with a dad who hunted and who saw the advantages of introducing his two sons to the sport not long after we were out of diapers.[…]
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Stumpy Specks
Capt. C.T. Williams’ web address is thebigfish.net. But during this season of the year, the marshes surrounding his home port of Hopedale deliver not quite exactly what his Internet name implies.[…]
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Small Game in a Big-Game World
Talk to a hunter who belongs to the Baby Boomer generation about his first hunting trip, and odds are it will be about squirrel hunting.[…]
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The Pressure’s On
Russell Scarbrough got off work at 6 p.m., too late to actually do any hunting. But he went ahead and drove to the public tract of land he planned to hunt the next few days and slept in the truck.[…]
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Nooner Ducks
Poor Zach. Maybe I should have warned him. This was the first Louisiana duck hunt for Pelayo’s brother-in-law, and he was dressed like a male model for Cabela’s catalog.[…]
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Duck Central
Do you have a favorite honey hole that you keep hunting because it seems to always hold game? If so, you’re not alone. Most hunters have secret spots that they jealously guard with everything but their lives.[…]
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The Causeway Approach
Tedious. Boring. Congested. Long. Time-consuming. Commuters use all these words and more to describe their daily 24-mile trek across the Lake Pontchartrain Causeway into the Big Easy.[…]
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Calcasieu Cleanser
Most people in Louisiana relate purging with cleaning a sack full of crawfish by making them vomit out impurities before they are dropped into a pot of boiling water.[…]
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Fly Guys
The last time Louisiana saw so many outsiders moving in to the state to take advantage of an opportunity was after the Civil War when carpetbaggers headed south looking to take advantage of the economic and political situation.[…]
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Family Traditions
During a poetry unit that my 8th grade English class at Boyet Jr. High in Slidell was dissecting, we came across a poem about legacies. My students easily identified the extended metaphor comparing a mother’s courage to a granite hill.[…]
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Twice as Nice in the Rice
“THE ROAD!” Anthony shouted as we nearly careened into a ditch along I-10.“Sorry about that guys, but did you see them?” I replied.[…]
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Virtural Reality
It’s Friday night — sons are home from college for the weekend. At 1:30 a.m., the old man gets up to answer nature’s call. The light is on in two bedrooms down the hallway. The old man hears voices coming from both sons’ computers of other gamers.[…]
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No-Fishing Zones
A recent National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration discussion paper has brought home to Gulf of Mexico fishermen the momentum of the movement to create marine protected areas (MPAs) in the northern Gulf of Mexico.[…]