Inshore Fishing
Reds also on the menu in Delacroix
What if we want to catch some Delacroix reds this month? No problem, Capt. Chad Dufrene said.[…]
November 2016
Sidebars
Day in the life of a waterfowl guide
It isn’t long after returning from a morning duck hunt that Colby and Davy Daniels are already getting ready for the next day.[…]
Sidebars
How to be a Top Gun
Guided duck hunts are expensive, but often cheaper than doing it on your own.
A day hunt at Top Gun with accommodations, for instance, is $375 per hunter.[…]
Sidebars
Shoot big for more waterfowl hunting success
With all the waterfowl gear available in the sporting goods world today, Davy and Colby Daniels are pretty basic — and old school — in their approach to guiding their 300 to 400 duck hunters each season.[…]
Fishing
Tippets
November is my favorite month for marsh fly fishing, since the interior lakes and bayous are thick with speckled trout. […]
Inshore Fishing
How to catch offshore fish with mullet
Although inshore guide Capt. Cody Obiol prefers engaging mullet from their schools’ perimeters, he has on occasion put a few live ones into service when calm seas allow a nearshore tuna run.[…]
Offshore Fishing
Why Prien Lake is a great kayak-fishing option?
John Williams is a lucky guy.
As owner of Pack & Paddle in Lafayette, one of the largest kayak and outdoor gear dealers in Louisiana, he gets invited by some of the state’s best kayak fishermen to fish in the coolest places.[…]
Offshore Fishing
How to find Prien’s trout
Prien Lake holds few secret spots. It is roughly 6 feet deep in most of its bed, except where the Calcasieu River channel courses through near its western bank.[…]
Columns
Stanley’s Poppn’ Toad
Stanley’s Poppn’ Toad, a hollow body soft-plastic frog with a pronounced cup in the nose, is going places.[…]
Columns
More great stuff from ICAST
In the September 2016 column, we reviewed several of the many new fly rods unveiled at the ICAST trade show held in July. […]
Columns
Louisiana families keep hunting traditions alive
The sport of hunting remains strong in the Bayou State because families make it a priority.[…]
Ask Captain Paul
Use your GPS for marking an SOS location
Naturally, if you get lost or stranded and have a GPS unit with you, it can be used to capture your position and forward it to a rescuer.[…]
Columns
Cutlassfish are common everywhere
We don’t call them cutlassfish.
Most Louisiana sport fishermen call them ribbonfish. Commercial shrimpers dub them silver eels, and consider them a minor nuisance for their habit of getting halfway through the meshes of their trawls’ bags and dying there.[…]
Contents
Delacroix de’ja vu
De’ja vu. We get the expression from the French, and it means “already seen.” It’s the feeling that you’ve been there before, experienced something previously or seen the same thing on some former occasion.[…]
Contents
Cover: November 2016
With the deer season in high gear, it’s time to buckle down and put some meat in the freezer.[…]
Contents
Top Guns — Duck-hunting guides share the secrets to their success
Archer Daniels looked up at the ducks, grabbed the Haydel duck call and blew hard as he could.[…]