A friend just installed a new 24-volt trolling motor and was disappointed when it ran only about three hours before the batteries died. He asked me to look at his new system, and I found several common ailments.[…]
More often than not, though, anglers launching at Bayou Segnette stick to the west side of the Mississippi River. From the launch, anglers can reach the top end of the Wagon Wheel in Venice in just over an hour.[…]
Death is inevitable. Like a cloud, it hangs ever on the horizon. On this sea of life, all living things are like little boats being swept along by a great current, its force irresistible and its flow unimpeded.[…]
Marck “Doc” Smythe was sitting in a tallow tree in the Cameron Parish marsh, waiting on the sun to push past the horizon and, hopefully, for a deer to walk by. He was psyched at the thought of sticking a deer.[…]
Each year, as club president of a hunting lease I share with several friends, I am required to record and report to the land company we lease from deer harvest information.[…]
OK, I admit it. It’s not like I’m embarrassed about it or anything, but I just don’t eat a lot of fish. I eat some kinds of fish, but not all kinds, and almost never in a restaurant.[…]
For all but a few lucky hunters, last year’s duck season along coastal Louisiana can only be described as “the season that wasn’t.”[…]
Hunters who go after deer with bow and arrow agree there is nothing like it. A gun hunter can sit comfortably in a padded swivel chair out of the weather in a covered box stand wearing jeans and sneakers, snacking on chips and soda pop, listening to a football game on his portable radio — and he has a legitimate chance of putting the crosshairs on a buck at 200 yards.[…]
Dear Capt. Paul:
I’m looking for waypoints for all the rigs out of Hopedale such as the Central Rig, the Dope Boat, etc.[…]
There is an old saying in fishing circles that 10 percent of the anglers catch 90 percent of the fish. In other words, one out of 10 anglers catch nine out of 10 fish.[…]
One year after a hurricane hit each coastal corner of Louisiana like a blast from a double-barreled shotgun fired from the Gulf of Mexico, habitat and the wildlife that use it are the focus of biologists and hunters, particularly on areas that are open to the public.[…]
My wife has always said I have brain damage.
Now she may have actual physical evidence.[…]
You wouldn’t think country music star Mark Chestnutt and 1980s rap group Whodini would have anything in common.[…]
A little planning now goes a long way during hunting season.[…]
Robert Lindley, Greg Webb, Otis Taylor and Jay Forrest caught easy limits in Louisiana’s Wadefishing Wonderland.[…]
It was 5:30 in the morning, but John Engelsman was climbing off his bicycle after riding to the Grand Isle beach to check out the conditions as the sun’s first light leaked over the horizon and buddy Larry Langlois cooked bacon and eggs for breakfast.[…]