Corked! How a popping cork could save your fishing trip
Scrunch, Scrunch, Schrunch! The heavy frost on the vehicle’s windshield wasn’t yielding easily to my efforts.[…]
Scrunch, Scrunch, Schrunch! The heavy frost on the vehicle’s windshield wasn’t yielding easily to my efforts.[…]
Capt. Dave Marino’s other passion is to fish the same areas with a fly rod.[…]
Just 65 pounds and stackable, Kajun Kayak’s 12-foot long, 34-inch-wide model is light enough for one person to handle and load into the bed of a pickup truck.[…]
1. The diameter of braided line is much smaller than that of monofilament. If using braid, it is important to wrap the line around the shaft of the cork’s snaps two or three times on both the top and the bottom of the cork.[…]
We used to say at the deer camp not to shoot the does, now it’s don’t shoot the bucks. My how things have changed![…]
Hypothermia is as much a danger during the winter in Louisiana as it is in northern climates. But, using common sense can make all the difference.[…]
“I started fishing with corks while I was perch fishing in lakes and ponds around my house when I was growing up,” chuckled Kerry Audibert.[…]
It is a given that deer are going to die annually on your property due to factors other than legal deer hunting.[…]
So I asked him, “What’s the best speckled trout spot on the central coast in December?”[…]
Kerry Audibert definitely marches to the beat of his own drummer. Almost the only inshore charter guides who don’t have trolling motors perched on their bow deck are those who specialize in live bait, a much slower way of fishing than with artificials.[…]
Da Saints had just stomped Da Falcons in Da Dome. Da Tigers were scheduled to stomp Bama at the championship the following week. And a perfectly-timed (for hunting) holiday cold-front was barreling through.
So spirits were soaring high at Da Camp as we converged the day after Christmas, with Da owners Eddie and Artie arriving elegantly late, as usual.
Exactly which one of Dem owned and ran the deer-club had never been precisely nailed down. Artie’s uncle more or less “founded” Da Lease back around the time “Bum” Phillips resigned as Saint’s coach in a huff.[…]
Speckled trout show a fairly dependable annual cycle. Most (remember that I said most) spend winters in low-salinity, interior waters — lakes, bayous and canals.[…]
It was a hypnotizingly peaceful afternoon. I shuffled along the banks of Little River, head down, searching intently for a pottery shard, an arrowhead — anything that the area’s first inhabitants might have left behind.
The sun’s rays felt good on my back, but the air still had a cold nip to it from a front that had passed the day before.
The sound of dogs barking in the distance echoed through the bare trees. The occasional cawing of crows seemed especially sharp in the dry air.
Otherwise, there was silence.
I felt rather than heard something behind me on the riverbank. I turned but saw nothing. It happened again. The third time, I barely turned my head and peeked out of one corner of my eye. […]
Mark Huvall had seen a huge deer several times over the past few years, and now the buck was walking right into his lap.[…]
Bryce Michel has so much confidence in the Lake Mechant/Lake de Cade area in November and December that he thinks the biggest mistake a fisherman can make is staying at home instead of going fishing.[…]
We hunted in one of three of Chuck Buckley’s blinds Martin has inherited from him.[…]