Louisiana Sportsman

Dazed and Confused

February 25, 2009 Chris Ginn

My first experience fishing the Tchefuncte River in St. Tammany Parish was the trolling motor going out on my brand-new Bass Tracker TX-17.[…]

Cover: March 2009

February 25, 2009 Louisiana Sportsman

Bass pro Jason Pittman knows there’s no better month for catching bass than March.[…]

Fantastic Four

February 25, 2009 Chris Ginn

Capt. Papa Joe Bush maneuvered his bay boat through the Pen and down toward the Texaco Canals as an approaching cold front hung ominously low in the sky just behind us.[…]

Election drives gun sales, carry applications

February 25, 2009 Gordon Hutchinson

Since the recent presidential election, sales of AR-15-style rifles have gone off the charts, and some manufacturers now report backlog orders for their rifles to number in the thousands.[…]

Flushing will save you big bucks

February 25, 2009 Hank Johnston

I have asked many customers how often they flush out their engines, and the answer is almost always the same. They tell me they flush their engines every time they use them.[…]

Mr. Crappie

February 25, 2009 Glynn Harris

For most of the past decade, I’ve talked with 65-year-old Bobby Phillips on a weekly basis, picking his brain for a fishing report I put together for newspapers, magazines and radio.[…]

5 Spinnerbait Secrets

February 25, 2009 Chris Ginn

Outside the occasional marsh bass that falls for my redfish spinnerbait, I can’t tell you the last time I had a really good spinnerbait bite in a lake or river.[…]

Your owner’s manual is your friend

February 25, 2009 Allan Tarvid

If there is anything worse than a complicated sounder or chart plotter, it’s an owner’s manual that doesn’t give you the traction to climb the unit’s learning curve. My[…]

Stay warm, catch fish in March

February 25, 2009 Greg Hackney

This month, I’ll be fishing the Delacroix area, near the east side of New Orleans, and trying to stay warm. The Caernarvon Diversion there lets Mississippi River water run out through the marsh, which has helped rebuild the marsh and caused a big boom to the bass fishing.[…]

Helping Mother Nature

February 25, 2009 Jerald Horst

Television viewers from the 1970s will easily remember the irate words, “It’s not nice to fool Mother Nature,” followed by a peal of thunder and a bolt of lightning.[…]

Deer of the Year, Part II

February 25, 2009 Andy Crawford

Up-and-down temperatures drove some deer hunters crazy, but the weather didn’t seem to affect the big-buck kill. Here are the stories about how some hunters scored big.[…]