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
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
Feral hogs on the loose
On July 28, the Louisiana Departments of Agriculture and Forestry and Wildlife and Fisheries hosted a meeting in Mansura.[…]
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.[…]
Deer Hunting
Stick bows growing in popularity
The amount of dedication traditional archery requires and the patience it takes to harvest an animal might dissuade some from trying a stick bow. It’s likely the reason the number of traditional hunters is relatively small.[…]
Deer Hunting
Organizations promote traditional archery
The Southern Traditional Archery Association is committed to the preservation of traditional archery in Mississippi.[…]
Deer Hunting
Longbow or recurve?
For thousands of years the longbow design hasn’t changed much. It’s quite simply a single piece of wood with a string attached at both ends.[…]
Inshore Fishing
Tippets
Down on the coast, it’s prime time for speckled trout. Whether it’s over reefs, in tidal bayous, or dead-end canals, you can’t go wrong casting a weighted Clouser or shrimp pattern set about 30 inches below a VOSI, the flyrodders’ popping cork. […]
Inshore Fishing
How oak cheniers were formed
Most waterfowl hunters and fishermen are vaguely aware that Highway 82, which runs the length of Cameron and Vermilion parishes, follows lines of live oak trees, while much of the surrounding countryside is wide open marsh.[…]
Inshore Fishing
History of Chenier au Tigre
One report has Chenier au Tigre being named because of a large cougar killed there many years ago.[…]
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.[…]