General
Off-season battery care
Fishing and boating tend to slow down during the winter months, but letting your battery maintenance slow down can be expensive.[…]
Statewide LA
Columns
This perch is a hussy
Sometimes we can’t help but assign human traits to other creatures, no matter how scientifically incorrect it is. So it is with the green sunfish, Lepomis cyanellus.[…]
Currents
Artificial Intelligence
A decade from now, when coastal anglers are fishing over artificial reefs loaded with speckled trout and redfish, they may have Mike Voisin to thank.[…]
Columns
Winter yak fishing
Wintertime fishing in South Louisiana can be fantastic. The cold weather brings less fishing pressure and concentrates the fish in many areas that are easily accessible to kayak anglers.[…]
Columns
Breaking in the .22-250
I was more than a little frustrated, and embarrassed to boot.[…]
Columns
Success is all about timing
If you like baseball, then you probably watched the World Series games between the Rangers and the Cardinals. If you did, you saw some excellent hitting — Albert Pujols hitting three homers in a game, Josh Hamilton hitting what Ranger fans thought was the Series winner in Game 6.[…]
Fishing
Mann’s Jointed 20+
Reaching depths of over 20 feet, Mann’s Jointed 20+ runs deeper than any other two piece crankbait out there, plus it has a swimming motion rivaling that of soft plastic swimbaits.[…]
Deer Hunting
Re-Joyce
Ricky Hano was sneaking through his all-time favorite hunting area back in January 2004 when he spooked a buck. As the mature deer made its escape, the hunter could see the huge set of antlers bobbing up and down.[…]
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Back Off
I’m not sure what it means to hunt anymore.
I used to know, when I snuck through the hardwood ridge between my parent’s house and the Bogue Chitto River with my single-shot 20-gauge shotgun crossing my chest at the ready, listening for shaking tree branches.[…]
Deer Hunting
Walk a mile in deer shoes
Not just a deer hunter, Washington Parish resident Karl Casanova travels up north every year to get in a little turkey hunting.[…]
Deer Hunting
Just how stupid are love-struck bucks?
Just this past October, Roanoke based bass tournament pro and avid deer hunter Dennis Tietje shot a 177-pound 7-point buck that was just about as stupid as a worked-up teenager in the backseat of his parents’ car.[…]
Hunting
MOA Shooting Sticks
Browning’s new MOA Shooting Sticks give serious sportsmen the stable rest essential in making accurate rifle shots. Collapsible Bipod and Tripod models will be offered as well as Fixed Leg Bipod and Tripod models to accommodate various hunting situations. […]
Deer Hunting
Custom-fit rifles boost youth confidence
Although food plots may not be the best place to hunt nocturnal deer in Louisiana, they are almost a sure bet to get a young hunter on a little action.[…]
Hunting
MVP Series Varmint rifle
The first rifle in the ground-breaking series of varmint and predator bolt-action rifles from Mossberg & Sons, Inc. is the MVP Series Varmint chambered in .5.56mm NATO (.223 Rem).[…]
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Stealth Attack!
I had spent all morning in my chest waders quietly wading through the backwater on my Winn Parish deer lease.[…]
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Cover: December 2011
Few hunters thing of Joyce WMA as a big-buck producer, and that’s just fine with Ricky Hano.[…]