Louisiana Sportsman

Jerkbait enhancement

January 1, 2013 David A. Brown

With any jerkbait, a suspending posture at rest is usually what you want, but some days find the fish most interested in falling baits.[…]

Everybody’s working for the weekend

January 1, 2013 Todd Masson

Delacroix is less than an hour from New Orleans, and about two hours from Baton Rouge, so day trips there are easy.[…]

Suspend in the salt

January 1, 2013 David A. Brown

When winter pushes trout and redfish into deeper canals and inner marsh arteries, suspending baits often earn the attention denied to sinking and faster-moving baits.[…]

Bark up the right tree – How to make the most of squirrel hunting with dogs

January 1, 2013 John Flores

Somewhere inside the small patch of woods surrounded by sugarcane fields, Hoke hunted. Maybe no more than 20 acres in size, if you flew over it the woodland would resemble a postage stamp stuck in the middle of an envelope.

A mix of hackberry, swamp maple, water and pin oaks, the isolated habitat wasn’t large enough to support a deer population, but it’s perfect for big red fox squirrels.

Hoke was used to the terrain, having hunted it before. There’d be no surprises on the afternoon. The goal was simply to spend a couple of hours hunting on a day already short because of winter, and if all went well the day would culminate with shooting a couple of the tree dwellers for the pot.[…]

Z-Man offers something truly different

January 1, 2013 Todd Masson

Louisiana anglers, by and large, hate soft-plastic baits that tear up quicker than wet toilet paper.[…]

Tackle up

January 1, 2013 David A. Brown

West Monroe’s Jim Dillard throws his jerkbaits on a long rod of 6-foot-10 to 7-2, but nothing too heavy.[…]

Binoculars are essential equipment

January 1, 2013 John Flores

Essential equipment for squirrel hunters who may or may not use a dog includes a good, quality pair of binoculars.[…]

Tracking a Booner — One DeSoto Parish deer became a Boone & Crockett buck

January 1, 2013 David Moreland

Wildlife research is conducted to learn information about a particular species. Where does it live? What does it eat? What is its breeding chronology? What are its habits?[…]

East Bay C&B — Load the boat with ducks and a variety of fish

January 1, 2013 Humberto Fontova

After the stomping the Saints put on Detroit in the Dome, we were seriously pumped for the match in San Francisco the following week. For the occasion, Doc even installed an even wider screen TV in his Venice houseboat.[…]

Choosing the right load

January 1, 2013 John Flores

Squirrels are abundant statewide and found in every terrain, from piney woods to bottomland hardwoods to coastal marshes.[…]

The more things change — Fishing for trout, bass, redfish at The Pen

January 1, 2013 Chris Ginn

Change is inevitable in coastal marsh.

The tide gives when it rises and takes away when it falls.

Land piles up in some places while washing away in others.

Fish that you couldn’t stop from biting one day cease to exist the next.

Nowhere is this change more evident than in The Pen. One of the most-famous fishing holes in all of Southeast Louisiana, this Lafitte hotspot once wasn’t even a lake.[…]