Field Notes
How to choose the right jighead
Choosing the right jighead to match water depth and current can be much more important than the color, size or shape of the artificial lure you’re fishing.[…]
Statewide LA
NEW PRODUCTS
Roomy 55-inch case from Gator Outfitters accommodates today’s largest gun/choke combos
With today’s long choke tubes extending the length of many shotguns beyond 50 inches, sometimes it’s a tight squeeze using an old gun case.[…]
Columns
Lethal Lace
Buying a good quality handgun to carry for self-defense is only part of the equation. You simply have to buy and practice with a suitable holster that will comfortably and securely carry your handgun so you can get at it easily and quickly.[…]
Deer of the Year
‘Scrabble Buck’ goes down in DeSoto Parish
It’s not too often that a heavy-horned 8-point interrupts a rousing game of smartphone Scrabble, but that’s pretty much what happened to Jim and Christy Hay Saturday morning.[…]
Bass Fishing
Final cast of the day yields 11-pound Toledo Bend lunker
Linda Smith and her boyfriend, Jimmy Bosarte, had a routine workday planned for Oct. 18 at their boathouse near McGee’s Landing on Toledo Bend.[…]
Fishing Tournaments
Florida team wins IFA Redfish Tour Championship in Houma
Geoff Page and Rick Murphy gambled on making the 108-mile run run to Venice each day of the IFA Redfish Tour Championship, and their decision won them the title.[…]
Deer Hunting
Kids experience hunting, outdoors during Dream Hunt Weekend
Jeff Warren recalled his love of fishing, hunting and the outdoors being instilled in him at a very young age by his father.[…]
Fishing
How to keep your electronics from hurting you
“Garbage in, garbage out” was a watchword with computers long before they were integrated into marine electronics. We rarely enter full-blown garbage into our stuff out on the water but expensive problems can stem from not giving some “minor” details the attention they deserve.[…]
Fishing
Court throws out suit seeking prominent E15 warning labels
The U.S. Court of Appeals of the District of Columbia on Oct. 21 threw out the most-recent case involving ethanol fuel labeling, reasoning that the groups bringing the complaint – including the recreational boating industry – don’t have standing because they “cannot show members have suffered or are suffering with an injury that is traceable to the misfueling regulations.”[…]
Columns
Mistaken identity
I was a young officer working my first year on the job when I walked into a little country store in Avoyelles Parish near Bordelonville one day. Being new to the area and not knowing anyone, a lot of time was spent meeting local folks and learning my way around.[…]
News Breaker
Top 6 squirrel-hunting tips
Keith LaCaze is a lifelong hunter, and he chases pretty much everything that lives in the wild. Deer, hogs, rabbits, squirrels and wood ducks — they’re all on his hit list.[…]
Bass Fishing
Texas angler catches 10.27-pounder at Toledo Bend
Colby Ogden knew conditions were right for flipping a jig.[…]
Deer Hunting
Hackney returns home to bowhunt in Arkansas
Greg Hackney and the crew took a road trip from Gonzales to Star City, Ark. for a little early-season bowhunting in the latest episode of Sportsman TV.[…]
Deer of the Year
Webster Parish youth drops elusive 174-inch buck
It’s commonly said in Louisiana if you don’t like the weather just wait a while, and it’ll change. […]
General
LDWF: Beauregard Parish trail cam photo just a bobcat
“After further review, the ruling on the field is overturned.”[…]
Columns
Early-season camera sites
As we move into the month of October, the transition period between late summer and fall here in the deep-south, let’s examine some of the criteria that can be used to select the best sites for trail camera surveillance.[…]