Deer Hunting
Leave well enough alone for early season bow hunting
I am a chronic double-checker. That might be a good quality to have as a writer, but as a deer hunter it can be somewhat self destructive.[…]
August 2012
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Calcasieu Heat: Tips for Big Lake speckled trout success
Ten-year-old Phillip Rue was scrunched up on the bow seat of the boat, torquing the handle of the spinning reel ferociously.[…]
Cobia
Don’t love hardheads? Cobia do!
Most Louisiana saltwater anglers hold hardhead catfish in contempt, but tough cobia love gulping down the spiked fish.[…]
Inshore Fishing
Fishing the jetties and other Calcasieu Lake trout options
There are always fish of some type on the jetties in the summer, Capt. Erik Rue said. They might be specks, and they might be redfish.[…]
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Island Invitation: Head to the Chandeleur Islands for great redfish, trout action
It was the eve of Feb. 1 in the year 1700 — a day long celebrated by Europeans as “Candlemas,” a day when their religious clergy blessed the candles that would be used in their religious services for the remainder of the year.
On the eve of that holy day, French explorer Pierre Le Moyne d’Iberville dropped anchor alongside a long chain of uninhabited islands off the border of the Louisiana/Mississippi coast and christened them Les Iles de Chandeleur (Translated in English a “The Chandeleur Islands”) in honor of the event.[…]
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Idle Iron policy should be reversed
If you stand on the beaches lining the Louisiana coastline and look south, it’s pretty much a guarantee that you’re going to see at least one oil rig. Probably several.[…]