Columns
Lafayette exec cooks from his roots
Lafayette’s Pat Attaway shares with Louisiana Sportsman his Cajun recipes for Mother’s Courtbouillon and Shrimp and Avocado Dip.[…]
October 2016
Columns
Feral hogs on the loose
On July 28, the Louisiana Departments of Agriculture and Forestry and Wildlife and Fisheries hosted a meeting in Mansura.[…]
Fishing
Getting wired – Proper wiring for your boat
Wires are the blood vessels of your boat’s electrical system. If they aren’t right, everything that runs on amps and volts is at risk.[…]
Columns
Get out and scout
When it comes to early season scouting for bucks with trail cameras, monitoring rubs and rub lines can be a very effective technique.[…]
Columns
Kayak snapper
A chunk of dead bait swirls through clear blue water toward the bottom. Before it lands, it’s inhaled by a fat red snapper.[…]
Inshore Fishing
Best bets for October specks
Capt. John Pounders said October also is a great month to target specks in Lafitte — but it can also be a tricky time.[…]
Other Hunting
Top squirrel-hunting tactics
Consistently killing limits of squirrels is no accident, and avid hunter Joe Speyrer puts in a lot of work to ensure he and his sons don’t come home empty handed.[…]
Other Hunting
Taxonomy of Louisiana’s squirrels
There is perhaps no greater source of discussion concerning Louisiana squirrels than identification of species and subspecies ,and their respective color phases.[…]
Bass Fishing
Tips for jerkbait tinkering
Winter through early spring finds jerkbait anglers fine-tuning their lures for perfect suspension or varying sink rates because everything’s moving much slower and fish often hold at a specific depth, with little interest in chasing even a vulnerable bait.[…]
Inshore Fishing
Bowfishing ‘black eye’ undeserved, bowfishermen say
After the hunt, while floating quietly in the black night and enjoying a soda, I found out why David Lastrapes asked me before the hunt what I expected.[…]
Deer Hunting
Smith’s deer-hunting mentor
In addition to his family, Brad Smith was blessed with a mentor who taught him something about deer hunting more important than any trophy deer. […]
Inshore Fishing
Pro bowfishing tips
With a little coaching, bowfishing techniques are easy to learn, even for the most inexperienced.[…]
Deer Hunting
Deer hunting is a family affair
Not many second-graders would be excited to move from one end of the state to the other, but it was OK with Brad Smith.[…]
Inshore Fishing
Top bowfishing tools
Early in the evening, Roy Lally IV explained the tools of the trade to me, starting with the most obvious: bows.[…]
Deer Hunting
Smith’s favorite big-buck gear
A climbing stand, a bow and arrow, and a bag of buck treasures is all Brad Smith needs in his quest of one more trophy deer.[…]
Inshore Fishing
Best times to go bowfishing
By the very laws of nature, much fishing and hunting is cyclical and seasonal. Not so with marsh bowfishing, Capt. Graylin Schultheis said.[…]