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.[…]
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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.[…]
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.[…]
Inshore Fishing
Upcoming Events
Mar. 3 — 21st annual Red Stick Day Fly Fishing Festival, LDWF Waddill Outdoors Center, 4141 North Flannery Road, Baton Rouge. Time: 8:30 a.m.-4 p.m. Free admission.[…]
Inshore Fishing
High hopes up high
Now, despite the vision advantage, even tower fishing can see its valleys of boredom. Maybe it’s a hot summer day when the fish are holding in deeper, cooler water or hiding under rafts of matted vegetation in the marsh.[…]
General
Scosche: solBAT II
The solBAT II is a solar powered back up battery and charging device that works with almost any handheld USB powered device, including iPod, iPhone, MP3, Blackberry and cellphones.[…]
Bass Fishing
Great Expectations
On the morning of March 10, anglers with great expectations will launch on either side at Doiron’s Landing in Stephensville hoping to land a heavy enough bag of bass to make the top 20 cut to fish the second day of the Louisiana Sportsman Open Bass Championship presented by Skeeter and Yamaha.[…]
Fishing
Mercury Marine’s 150 FourStroke
Mercury Marine’s 150 FourStroke is the new top choice for offshore, inshore bay, flats, aluminum, bass, pontoon, runabout, RIBs and aluminum bass boats.[…]
Bass Fishing
Fish to win on the first day
Most tournaments that launch at Doiron’s Landing are one-day events in which anglers can pound on their fish as hard as necessary to stack up as large a limit of bass as they possibly can.[…]
General
Pure Hydration
Rocky Mountain Survival Gear is now distributing Pure Hydration water purification systems that use no chemicals, have no wait time and can be filled from any natural water source.[…]
Bass Fishing
Keep an eye on Simmesport and Krotz Springs gauges
Undoubtedly, lots of eyes will be on the Atchafalaya River gauge at Morgan City the days preceding the Louisiana Sportsman Open Bass Classic, but anglers Randy Rader and Jason Pittman say it’s might be a little more important to keep watch on the gauges north of Morgan City.[…]