January 2012

Deer Hunting

Permanent Plots

January 11, 2013 Rob Heflin

In my lifetime, I have only known the Delta to be an expanse of rowed-up dirt that is planted annually with various crops that feed and clothe the world. Deltans can look across a field that continues for miles with no apparent end.[…]

Inshore Fishing

The Gold Mine

January 8, 2013 Chris Holmes

If you fish the famed Sulfur Mine in Galliano, you likely won’t find any gold, but you will find lots of silver and bronze. This old industrial mine site is a perfect place to take your kayak for limits of wintertime specks and reds.[…]

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Permanent Plots

January 1, 2012 Rob Heflin

In my lifetime, I have only known the Delta to be an expanse of rowed-up dirt that is planted annually with various crops that feed and clothe the world. Deltans can look across a field that continues for miles with no apparent end.[…]

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Hunting with Your Mouth Full

January 1, 2012 Jerald Horst

With the exception of what comes from wildlife and wild fisheries, almost everything the Earth’s peoples eat and wear comes from agriculture. The United States is truly a land of plenty, where real hunger isn’t felt. Hunters, like other Americans, have full mouths and bellies.[…]

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Belated Bucks

January 1, 2012 Chris Ginn

In the northwest corner of Louisiana, Red River bass fishing guide Russ McVey sits in a box stand overlooking a pipeline with his daughter Madison about to run out of iPod battery. They hope a buck trying to recover from the rut wants to grab a few kernels of corn.[…]