Freshwater Fishing
Frabill Crawler Can
Fish catfish with worms long enough and chances are quite good that many will die in the wax-coated cardboard or styrofoam containers they come in.[…]
Inshore Fishing
Don’t connect the dots to get to far-away fish
He has seen it too many times for it to be an anomaly and he has yet to figure out why people — even guides — do it, but Capt. Jeff Poe with Big Lake Guide Service would never run over a potential fishing spot just to get to another potential fishing spot.[…]
Inshore Fishing
Increase in knowledge leads to decrease in pressure
Although there’s been a lot of talk of increased fishing pressure at Big Lake in the last few years, Capt. Jeff Poe feels like there’s something going on that might have gone a little bit under the rader recently.[…]
Inshore Fishing
Stick with basic baits under pressure
One might think that changing lures would be a good way to counteract fishing pressure at Calcasieu Lake. […]
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Ostrica is the New Venice
May loomed, and Eddie assumed our traditional summer fishing schedule also loomed.[…]
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Outer limits
This is it: You don’t have to wait any longer.
The month we long for with impatient anticipation throughout the entire year has finally arrived in all its spring glory.[…]
Inshore Fishing
Louisiana company makes a better shrimp
Every trout angler knows that shrimp imitations catch fish. The slow, horizontal fall is too much for any hungry speckled trout to resist.[…]
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Cover: May 2012
Speckled trout fishing is heating up across the coast, but there’s no shortage of freshwater action.[…]
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Dog Days of Summer
Let’s see: You are a charter guide and your clients just cancelled at the last minute because of an emergency.[…]
Inshore Fishing
The seasons of Pontchartrain
Speckled tout fishing in Lake Pontchartrain follows a regular annual cycle with four fishing seasons.[…]
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Buggin’ bluegill
The sounds are unmistakable. SSSLURP! POP! SMACK!
When bluegill rise to grab surface meals, they know they’re vulnerable to bass, ospreys, herons and other predators. Therefore, they have to be sure of a worthwhile payoff, and nature provides plenty in the way of aquatic insects and other bugs that fall to the water’s surface.[…]
Freshwater Fishing
Popping out poppers and other popular patterns
My colleague and accomplished fly tier, Reb Stewart recently gave me a box of foam-bodied poppers and various insect patterns. The colors looked good, the legs and antennae, etc. all set just right.[…]
Columns
Dumb game laws
Louisiana Sportsman is of course the best outdoor publication around, but I do read a few others. So when the March 2012 issue of Petersen’s Hunting hit the mailbox I took a quick look at the petersenshunting.com page for the monthly highlights.[…]
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Red tide falling
In February, the Wyoming state legislature considered an amendment to a bill requiring that state to purchase an aircraft carrier. Even though it failed, there were 22 legislators who voted for the amendment.[…]
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The Ruger SR40c
A recent concealed carry class included a newlywed couple. The young woman was an attractive emergency room nurse with a winning smile, long brown hair and a dad who was a retired federal law enforcement officer.[…]
Inshore Fishing
Under Pressure
This is my son’s first year of playing kid-pitch baseball.
After looking like an all-star in the batting cages during his first practice, he stood on deck and watched the batter before him take a hardball to the lower back in his team’s first attempt to hit off of an inconsistent 9-year-old pitcher.[…]