Largemouth bass are the most popular freshwater recreational fish in America, in spite of the changing face of the fishery. Gone are the days of a bass fisherman being pictured as a grandfather in a rowboat with a grandson or contemplative pipe-puffing angler patiently casting a clunky wooden topwater plug with his old knuckle-buster.[…]
When speckled trout are biting, really in a feeding frenzy, they will bite on anything.[…]
Capt. Paul:
I recently purchased a Garmin 545s. Is there a way to mark spots, tracks and bodies of water on my computer then transfer them to the unit?[…]
The AR-style rifle has come into its own. First designed by Eugene Stoner in .308 caliber when he worked for the Armalite corporation, the aluminum receiver guns were the stuff of science-fiction films, far ahead of their time.[…]
Last month’s column just barely scratched the surface as it pertains to propeller technology. In order to better understand propeller designs and their applications it will be necessary to understand the language of propellers.[…]
Thirty years ago, a state-of-the-art fish finder had a round turntable with a light bulb mounted on its edge spinning behind a clear circular window. There were hash marks and depth scale numbers printed around the window.[…]
Most of the 20 years I’ve spent in outdoors communications has involved writing for Louisiana Sportsman. A quick search of the archives reveals that I’ve written at least 125 stories for the magazine.[…]
Face a firing squad, and you get a blindfold, right? Now I understood why. My doom seemed as imminent — and I was no more eager for a close-up of the grim reaper than a firing-squad victim.[…]
“I was the first person in my family to consider hunting a sport,” said 62-year old Charles Johnson. “People in my family hunted for food — for something to eat.”[…]
My journey into duck hunting has left me with the mixed feelings of an elementary school student who got addicted to soft drinks just weeks before they were banned from the concession stand in favor of healthier alternatives.[…]
This month, most Louisiana outdoorsmen are deer and duck hunting, so the amount of fishing pressure on all the waterways has been reduced drastically.[…]
CORPUS CHRISTI, TX – The National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) continued its bizarre history of biased management regarding Gulf amberjack when it announced this week that the recreational season for the popular offshore species will close on October 24 due to the recreational sector overfishing its quota.[…]
Will you kill as many ducks this year as you could?
Let me be the first to tell you that, no, you absolutely won’t.[…]
Although the summer days are loosely labeled as lazy here in LouisianAlthough the summer days are loosely labeled as lazy here in Louisiana, November is actually the best month to be a lazy bass angler at Lake D’Arbonne.a, November is actually the best month to be a lazy bass angler at Lake D’Arbonne.[…]
Lake Salvador is a huge body of water located due south of New Orleans and southeast of the Salvador Wildlife Management Area in St. Charles Parish.[…]
The buck had spent the dark hours of early morning munching in a wheat field, milling about with other deer and concentrating on filling its belly.[…]