The key to a successful deer program is to keep the habitat productive for deer throughout the entire year, not just during the hunting season. In fact, when the hunting season comes around, deer growth and development is over, and it is now harvest time.[…]
A Pineville bass fisherman was an unhappy camper one afternoon the first week of October while fishing Toledo Bend.[…]
The recent passing of Steve Jobs, co-creator of the first personal computer, gave this columnist reason to think of all the contributions that computers have made in our lives.[…]
Dear Capt. Paul:
I have some coordinates directly from a buddy’s GPS, but they are not bringing me to the same location as his GPS?[…]
Scientists, I am convinced, have a droll sense of humor. It is most evident in the scientific names that they conjure up to hang on some poor creature. Take, for example, the king mackerel, Scomberomorus cavalla.[…]
It happened again at an afternoon barbecue a few months ago. A new acquaintance commented he was looking at buying a new pistol.[…]
Fall is the time of year when trout begin their transition from the outer bays and journey into the interior marshes. This is great news for kayakers, as limits of trout will be within easy reach of these people-powered craft.[…]
Coastal restoration sucks.
It really does.[…]
Here is a simple and effective method for making a blind that does not take much time: Cut a piece of 1/2- or 3/4-inch plywood about 3 feet by 6 feet, and lay it on some solid marsh.[…]
Howard Callahan believes in fast shot as the most effective method of bringing down ducks.[…]
The Good Lord gave us a glorious sunrise, the glowing orb back-lighting a cloud in the eastern sky that looked for all the world like an angel in flight. I snapped a few photos as the sun slowly nibbled away the cloud bank.[…]
The fish causing all the excitement are really not striped bass; they’re hybrid stripers, incapable of reproduction save for the intervention of man.[…]
Every Louisiana sportsman has heard of Catahoula Lake, the duck hunting mecca in east-central Louisiana, but they might not know what a rich and sometimes violent history it has.[…]
Kevin Beasley of Ruston was reared in Slidell down in redfish country. He loved to catch redfish, and he also loved them on the table.[…]
One thing that makes the Delta Young Guns so successful is not only their youthful zeal and hardcore tactics, but also their knowledge of duck food.[…]
At 38 years old, Donavon Hinton has been around Lafitte fishermen long enough to have picked up a few tricks of the trade. He gained most of his insight when fishermen would return with their catches to his parents’ C-Way Marina.[…]