May 2013

Columns

Shotgunning fun

May 29, 2013 Gordon Hutchinson

An attorney friend who knows a little more about guns than I do about the dark side of the moon — but not much more — was wandering around a regional gun show, looking for I’m not sure what.

I think he had been caught up in all the furor and hype and just figured he needed another gun to go with his one revolver.[…]

Fishing

You dropped WHAT overboard?

May 27, 2013 Allan Tarvid

Shortly after handheld GPS units became small enough to fit in a pocket, I remember a fellow outdoor writer lamenting about losing his. He somehow dropped it as he stepped from a boat to a dock over water 30 feet deep.[…]

Columns

Boating blunders

May 24, 2013 Keith LaCaze

Wildlife enforcement agents in Louisiana are provided with an abundance of training related to boating. Instruction in boat operation, safety equipment, accident prevention and investigation will begin in the academy and continue throughout an agent’s career.[…]

Columns

Lessons learned

May 22, 2013 Bill Garbo

As this article goes to press, the 2012-13 deer season is about three months in the rear view mirror. As they say, “It is time to re-load and re-mount.”[…]

Columns

Make mine live

May 20, 2013 Chris Holmes

For most power boats, the use of live bait is such a given that livewells almost always come as standard equipment. Many don’t think that taking live bait along in a kayak is a viable option.[…]

Freshwater Fishing

The bream of Louisiana

May 15, 2013 Jerald Horst

The word “bream” (pronounced “brim”) is a Southernism. Our northern friends call them by their proper species name, or they lump them all together as sunfish — which sounds altogether too sissy-like. In the South, we talk about bull bream.[…]

Freshwater Fishing

Bluegills

May 15, 2013 Jerald Horst

This feisty species is definitely the backbone of the bream fishery. It gets big — for a bream —at 10 inches, and during its summer-long spawning season forms dense beds of nests.[…]