Sidebars
Manchac WMA best practices
The Biologist, Christian Winslow, has some tips for prospective hunters:[…]
Sidebars
Inshore Fishing
Tropical weather pushes trout toward Lafitte
To say you’re hoping for a hurricane to blow through South Louisiana just to make the fishing better would be a tad bit insensitive.[…]
Inshore Fishing
Ghost Minnows prove to be durable soft plastics
The Ghost Minnow we used to catch trout on this trip was the same one Capt. James Wilson used to put together 30 straight limits of speckled trout.[…]
Inshore Fishing
Clovelly Oil Field offers best of both worlds
The particular area that produced all these limits of speckled trout for Capt. James Wilson is a part of the Clovelly Oil Field. The canal that comes out in the middle of Little Lake is a part of it, but the other part, where we fished, is the south end by Brusle.[…]
Inshore Fishing
Breton Island
“On days with wind, say a brisk north wind blowing 15 to 20 mph, I’ll fly out here and land in the cove, and we’ll have Breton Island all to ourselves,” Bourgeois said. “Boats won’t make that run from any port in those winds and seas.[…]
Inshore Fishing
Grand Gosier Island
“I’ll fish Gosier two days after a front, when we have a bluebird sky and very little wind,” Bourgeois said. “The cooler November weather means you don’t have to start fishing as early in the mornings, and between 9 a.m. and 2 p.m. is perfect for fishing reds on the flats at Gosier.[…]
Inshore Fishing
Freemason Island
“This island is just a long, beautiful stretch of shells, about a mile long,” Bourgeois said. “Once you step off the island into the water, the depth drops off fast and steep, so we don’t even wade in the water here.[…]
Inshore Fishing
The West-side Run
On the west side of the Mississippi River, Bourgeois has many options, with some good walkable islands with either shells or a hard sand bottom scattered from Barataria Bay to Timbalier Bay.[…]
Freshwater Fishing
Tips to identify white bass, stripers and hybrid striped bass
Men, it seems — more specifically fishermen — like to mess with Mother Nature. North America is blessed with hundreds of suitable species for fishermen to catch, yet the pursuit of superfish for anglers to chase has led fisheries biologists to cross breed many naturally occurring species.[…]
Hunting
Pirogues make good scouting tools
Hunting out of a pirogue is a great way to see and slip up on more game if you have a creek running through your property or lease, but a pirogue can also serve as a great way to scout for places to hunt on the land.[…]
Hunting
Silent Killer
One of the things that make slipping up on game in a pirogue possible is silence.[…]
Sidebars
Youth-hunting considerations
Often putting to use his resources as general manager of Honey Brake at the Louisiana Delta Plantation, Drew Keeth is a staunch supporter of the annual LDWF youth weekends.[…]
Inshore Fishing
Tippets
Speckled trout on fly? To quote Si Robertson, it’s on like Donkey Kong! A game plan for putting a nice mess of fish in the box starts off with poppers around sunrise, switching to weighted flies like clouser minnows and charlies under a VOSI around mid-morning, then finishing the day with poppers near sunset.[…]
Coastal Projects
Nonprofits take different approaches to education
While most of Louisiana’s coastal nonprofits get involved with beach cleanups, plantings and the like, nearly all of them dedicate at least part of their mission to education.[…]
Deer Hunting
Scent-control tips for bowhunters
Curtis Simpson has devised a system of washing, spraying and height that has proven good enough to help him hide from deer noses.[…]
Deer Hunting
Patience required to maximize stand setup
If your property is large enough to hold deer, West Monroe bowhunter Curtis Simpson believes you can help hold more deer by setting up a system of stands that move progressively deeper from the outside edges of the land to the interior where bigger bucks are likely to be.[…]