Bass Fishing
Old-school color revival
If there is anything that can complicate your fishing it’s color charts. With so many colors to choose nowadays, some anglers are left scratching their heads.[…]
September 2013
Inshore Fishing
Tippets
September is a month of transition. As we approach the fall equinox, shorter days and radiative cooling of water temperatures triggers annual migration and feeding habits.[…]
Other Hunting
Are doves becoming homebodies?
It’s a given that food keeps animals around.
Food plots attract and hold deer.[…]
Bass Fishing
Sabine River regulations
In the Sabine River proper, anglers with Louisiana and Texas fishing licenses must obey a 14-inch minimum length limit and an eight-bass bag limit.[…]
Other Hunting
‘Dove trees’ pull in more doves
One of things I recall most vividly from this particular dove hunt with my brother-in-law was looking way down the field to my right and wondering why one group of hunters seemed to be shooting so much.[…]
Hog Hunting
A hog study
Dr. James LaCour, the state wildlife veterinarian for the Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries, said increasing feral hog numbers are prompting research on the creatures.[…]
Hog Hunting
What’s the stink?
Bill Borges is a deer hunter, and has been one for 40-plus years.[…]
Deer Hunting
Who’s your daddy?
Research studies in the Southeast have found that a doe can be bred by multiple bucks and produce fawns with different fathers.[…]
Hog Hunting
Cooking a tough pig
Let’s face it, like other game (yes, I call feral hogs game), wild pigs are not all feedlot tender and young. Yes, some are, but lots of them are old and tough — like the boar that Falgoust killed.[…]
Deer Hunting
How do you know when a doe was bred?
Determining breeding dates is a matter of normal biological activity for a deer biologist.[…]
Hog Hunting
How to clean a pig
Mark Falgoust and Mike Millé, a hog-cleaning veteran who said he has cleaned or helped clean nearly a thousand hogs in his 65 years, offered some tips to help produce the best-quality meat possible.[…]
Columns
Hey, it’s still good, good, good!
Lately, the Moreland clan has been spending a lot of time at the Baton Rouge Orthopedic Clinic; it started with a surgery on my wife’s shoulder for a torn rotator cuff, followed by surgery on our son Ruffin’s leg, followed by an air cast for me to help heal a bad ankle.[…]
Columns
See spot run
This September marks the 32nd anniversary with the other love of my life — fly fishing.[…]
Ask Captain Paul
The ABCs of GPS configuration, Pt. 1
I know that I have written about configuration settings for a GPS unit in the past, but during my seminars and at least once a month I get a question concerning how a reader’s GPS should be set up.[…]
Columns
Everybody eats pogies
Yes, everybody eats pogies; They just don’t know it.
The sea is a funny place. On land, planting-eating species (herbivores) vastly outnumber meat-eaters (carnivores). That’s because it takes 10 pounds of herbivore flesh to produce 1 pound of carnivore.[…]
Columns
Never give up
When my kids were young, I was determined they would be as eaten up with hunting and fishing as I was. They were dragged along on trips as often as possible, and the lessons stuck — at least with my son.[…]