Marsh bass have a rough life. Unlike their fat kin that bide their time lazily lounging under logs in lakes, marsh bass spend their days battling tidal current, searching for something to eat and evading schools of roaming redfish.[…]
You know what they say in baseball — three strikes and you’re out. Well, I’m mighty close to strike three.[…]
It’s hard to know what all the hurry is about, but you would think running to a place called Turtle Bayou, by name alone, there wouldn’t be any rush.[…]
I wonder if Iberville would have ever made it back to Ship Island had he carried sliding corks with him in his pirogue as he passed through the waters he named Maurapas and Pontchartrain.[…]
I remember watching Hank Parker fishing with a spincast rod and reel on his television show several years ago. He was fishing for crappie, and he claimed that using the push-button reel and limber rod allowed him to present his jig to fish that were virtually unmolested right in the middle of a bustling lake.[…]
When it comes to Louisiana, I’m more biased than an NBA ref with a dozen Benjamins riding on the game he’s officiating.[…]
As the days become longer, the process of “photoperiod” takes hold — stimulating more hormonal growth for bucks. More available sunlight allows changes to unfold with a buck’s pituitary gland, producing hormones that significantly contribute to bone and tissue growth.[…]
I wouldn’t think twice about eating a fish, crab, oyster or shrimp harvested from anywhere along Louisiana’s coast right now. The harmful elements of crude oil evaporate quickly.[…]
Shooting docks for crappie has definitely caught on quicker outside Louisiana than it has within the borders of the Bayou State.[…]
LouisianaSportsman.com users have crowned Annette Ducote and Brad Thibodaux as the winners of the 2010 turkey photo and video contest, and the hunters will be mailed Official Sportsman Gear and Primos Hunting Calls prize packs.[…]
The new 50 quart YETI Tundra from YETI Coolers has a deeper, cube-shaped design which takes up less valuable deck space and makes for an ideal casting platform, seat and food and drink cooler.[…]
Tend the food plots, manage the timber, check the pH and get rid of the weeds. We’ve all heard and know it.[…]
David George DeMersseman was 54 years old, an insurance executive and on a road trip. He was sitting in a Waffle House on a major thoroughfare next to an entrance/exit off Interstate 12 in my town, having an early breakfast or a late dinner — the newspapers didn’t specify.[…]
I remember looking through some old photographs that my mother had when I found one of my mother and dad sitting in one of dad’s race boats. The third person in the boat was me.[…]
Weather can kill people in boats and be downright sneaky while doing it. When fishing Lake Tawakoni in East Texas, for instance, I remember how blue northers would slide by just clear of the west side of the lake, like they were going to miss us, and then circle around to come north right over the dam and hit the lake.[…]
The 4-inch ItzaBug by Stanley Lures just might represent the pinnacle of the creative artificial lure manufacturing prowess of John Dean.[…]