I’d never heard the term “small ball” until I started watching the LSU Tigers baseball team in recent years.For the uninformed, small ball involves getting on base any way you can — scratch singles, bunts, walks, base stealing, getting hit by a pitch.[…]
Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries (LDWF) Secretary Robert Barham has signed a declaration of emergency to extend the 2008 wild alligator season to official sunset on Oct. 19, in both zones, due to Hurricanes Gustav and Ike.[…]
The Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries (LDWF) Licensing Section advises all commercial and recreational fishing boat owners that Act 35 of the 2008 Legislature requires certain owners to register their boats.[…]
Which WMAs hold the keys to your 2008-09 hunting success? Find out in this issue.[…]
A deer walks into range. Quietly, the hunter takes aim through his scope. At just the right moment, the safety is clicked off and the hunter gently squeezes the trigger to send an arrow through the broadside buck.[…]
With teal season beginning this month, and the full-fledged duck season only a little while behind it, the annual trek to the salt marshes of our coastline will begin.[…]
Dear Capt. Paul:
Can you give me any coordinates for reefs in Big Lake? I’ve only been fishing there a short amount of time and I only seem to catch trout when the birds are working. I would like to be able to catch trout anytime.[…]
Everybody was baking before and just after a mid-July weigh-in for a major-money bass tournament on a hot day at Lake Neely-Henry in Alabama.[…]
Each year when duck season closes in January, most hunters simply park their mud boats and forget about them. We usually have other things such as fishing, cruising and water skiing on our minds.[…]
Here’s a question I’m often asked: Why tie flies when you can buy them online so cheaply? One reason is, trite but true, nothing is as rewarding as catching a fish on a fly you tied yourself.[…]
My pick for September as the best place to catch bass is Venice. I like bass fishing out of Venice then because of the very hot weather, and this area has plenty of moving water.[…]
Paddlefish, or spoonbill catfish as they are often called by freshwater fishermen, are a primitive fish species found in almost all of Louisiana’s natural water bodies.[…]
Having been involved with deer management work for 30+ years, it is my opinion that hunting white-tailed deer in the South is more challenging than in any other region of the United States.[…]
Many fishermen and boaters call any sealed, maintenance-free marine battery a gel battery, and that isn’t correct. We discovered in the charging column the differences between types become more than just semantics if you destroy a battery by using the wrong charger on it.[…]
When I’m hungry for fish, I don’t care if the fish are hungry,” proclaimed John Supan with a puckish grin. “I love to hook-and-line fish sometimes, but throwing a recreational cast net is much more efficient. It’s fun, too.”[…]
Over four decades of rolling down Louisiana Highway 1 to Grand Isle, I’ve whizzed by hundreds of them — those stalwart souls fishing off the shoulder of the road or its bridges.[…]