Apex Predator
Picking the pockets
After archery season ends I’m a sad pup. Though after putting the rod in the boat for the first time in months my tail’s a wagging. It’s time to go after those bass and frogs.[…]
Statewide LA
Columns
The house search
Nothing is more terrifying to a homeowner than a “hot” burglary. That’s what detectives call incidents where cold-blooded cretins, crawling out of their skins with drug addictions, creep a house with the occupants home, generally asleep.[…]
Columns
Pimp my ‘yak
An unseasonably warm winter saw many kayak fishermen in Louisiana enjoying an extended season without the need to bundle up and venture out on cold, blustery days.[…]
Columns
Unwelcome transplant
It seems that few people, at least in the United States, have much use for the common carp, Cyprinus carpio. But in its native lands, Europe and Asia, it is loved and esteemed.[…]
Currents
Who should benefit from BP fines?
The bad news: You have cancer.
The good news: It is confined to your left arm, and once surgeons remove the arm, you’ll be completely healthy and able to live an otherwise normal life.[…]
Columns
Managing the data — Part 1
The task of organizing trail camera photos can really be made quite easy by becoming organized and utilizing certain basic procedures.[…]
Columns
The baiting game
The spring gobbler season begins in March and is the last hunting season before agents move almost entirely to the water for enforcement of fishing and boating regulations for spring and summer.[…]
Columns
Fetch a fly tournament
Belle, my faithful collie, often accompanies me to the nearby park for some fishing on the pond. But first she requires we make a stop at the adjacent dog park.[…]
Fishing
When familiarity breeds content
Whoever said that familiarity breeds contempt was not talking about their marine electronics. The plain and simple truth is that the better you know your electronics, the more they can do for you.[…]
Hunting
Burris Eliminator III
The Eliminator III is a sleek, next-generation laser scope that is able to provide more accuracy, more range and a method of windage compensation.[…]
Columns
Lil John new go-to bait
Month after month for the last year or so, Jeff Poe has talked glowingly about a soft plastic that he wasn’t sold on until his son and fellow charter boat captain Nick Poe threw him some one day when the younger Poe was tearing them up while very few, if any, speckled trout were going into the boat skippered by Jeff Poe.[…]
Columns
Put a ribbon on it
The deer hunting is over and it’s time to talk turkey. But before the gobbling and clucking begins, the 33rd Annual Louisiana Sportsmen’s Show & Festival will take place in Gonzales on March 9-11, and it is time to look at some of those deer heads that were featured in the Deer of the Year story in last month’s issue.[…]
Bass Fishing
Cold front grip loosens later in the day
Anglers who make an immediate and necessary change first thing in the morning after a cold front would be wise to not forget about what patterns were working well before the front blew through.[…]
Bass Fishing
Changing rod angle helps trigger reluctant bass
While most anglers believe cold front bass clam up with a long-lasting case of lockjaw, avid tournament angler Kenny Covington has learned the nuances of making bass bite even when they don’t want to. And much of it has to do with his rod position.[…]
Inshore Fishing
Tippets
About this time each year, we get the first invasion of shrimp and crabs into the ponds. With the mild winter, there’s plenty of grass that awaits them. Reds, drum and sheepshead will be rooting them out. Look for tails on calm days.[…]
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Tower of Power
The prominent V wake was unmistakable, even from my camera boat positioned 50 feet from the anglers working a grass line.[…]