NEW PRODUCTS
Thunder Chicken
Flextone Game Calls has introduced a new lightweight and easy to carry and pack turkey decoy.[…]
April 2012
Inshore Fishing
Guide targets “green trout” for fun
With largemouth bass taking the place of speckled trout alongside the redfish around Lafitte, it’s no wonder these “green trout” are replacing speckled trout in coolers and on cleaning tables.[…]
Bass Fishing
Boat block
Wind is the sight-fisherman’s enemy, but Craig Graham said there is a way to minimize the waves that break visual contact with bedding bass.[…]
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Offshore Inbox
My transformation to a recreational angler is complete.[…]
Columns
The art of the rifle … 3
The Jeep was almost sliding down the rocky, shale-strewn mountainside at a steep 15-degree angle when Larry Wieshuhn stood on the brake.[…]
Offshore Fishing
Predator fish grow fast
One of the most fascinating aspects of the information I learned from offshore fishing guide Josh Howard was just how quickly predator fish can grow.[…]
Bass Fishing
Optimizing your tube
For those deep jobs with a lead head inserted into your tube, you’ll enhance the bait with a few well-placed snips. First, cut a ¼- to ½-inch slit in the tube’s body along the inside edge of the hook shank.[…]
Bass Fishing
Cover: April 2012
Is there a better month than April? Trout are getting active, and bass are still clobbering anything in the water.[…]
Offshore Fishing
Beat line-shy tuna with fluorocarbon leader
Tuna are notoriously line shy, and Josh Howard says that’s why he uses fluorocarbon leader all year long, but this time of year especially.[…]
Bass Fishing
Titan tubes
Fishing is a spectrum, and just as tiny baits and delicate tactics hold a solid position at one end, the opposite end sees the profound relevance of big and bold.[…]
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Cover: April 2012-Fishing
Is there a better month than April? Trout are getting active, and bass are still clobbering anything in the water.[…]
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D’Arbonne’s Daffy Divers
It was late evening in the early summer. The five men assembled on the back deck of the Petrus family camp, set on a hill slope overlooking Lake D’Arbonne, were engaged in a masculine redneck ritual. Bobby Petrus, a.k.a. “The Claw,” was grilling meat, and all of them were exchanging humorous insults.
The rough-and-tumble humor, mixed with an equal blend of braggadocio and self-deprecation, was delivered with powerful North Louisiana twangs in what a Cajun or a New Orleanian would consider a foreign language.[…]
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Turkey Tornado
If Alaska had a huntable population of turkeys, Franklinton’s Randy Stafford wouldn’t be stuck on having killed a turkey in 49 out of 50 states.[…]
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Puddle Jumping
The early morning sky was grey and overcast, and a cold chill greeted us as we stepped out of the truck at the Sweetwater Marina in Delacroix.[…]
Freshwater Fishing
Why a hole?
Catfish noodlers, grabbers or wrestlers, whatever you call them, take advantage of an important trait in the biology of North American freshwater catfish. They need to spawn in cavities of some kind.[…]
Sidebars
Wild turkeys benefit from NWTF
In all the hunts he has made to complete his goal of killing a turkey in 49 of the 50 states, Randy Stafford has seen firsthand what the National Wild Turkey Federation has done in regards to introducing turkeys to areas where there weren’t any before.[…]