Ask Captain Paul
Use caution when buying map programs
Dear Capt. Paul:
I recently bought a Humminbird 898c SI fishfinder, and am looking to buy a chip to upgrade the maps.[…]
Year: 2010
Currents
No better month than the 10th one
If I ever find a lamp, rub it and a genie pops out, one of my wishes will be to rip June, July and August off the calendar. What do the three months have to offer?[…]
Columns
Is it a reptile, or is it a fish?
Most fish-identification books (except mine, of course) list the value of lizardfish to anglers as either a “nuisance” or “useless.” I happen to think that they are a pretty interesting critter. It could be the biologist in me.[…]
Fishing
MirrOdine Mini
The MirrOdine Mini Suspending Twitchbait is the newest addition to the MirrOdine family. At 2 ¼ inches, the new size is perfect when trout, redfish, tarpon, striped bass and snook are feeding on smaller size baitfish.[…]
Hunting
Hunt Zone Signs
Developed for hunter safety, Hunt Zone Signs are a great way to inform other hunters, hikers, bikers, horseback riders, or anyone else sharing the woods, that you are hunting in the area.[…]
Fishing
Roscoe Jig
Blue Water Candy Lures recently introduced a new vertical jig that is less labor intensive than traditional jigs because it requires less action to be effective.[…]
Hunting
God’A Grip
God’A Grip’s self-customizing gun grips enhance the comfort and feel of your favorite firearm or crossbow.[…]
Fishing
Berkley Classics Turboglide
The Berkley Classics TurboGlide Lithium-ion Cordless Electric Fillet System features the smooth, lightweight and powerful Classics TurboGlide fillet knife, with non-slip SofTorx finish grip and a 7 ½-inch serrated blade, perfect for precision cuts or large fillets.[…]
Columns
Sighting in doesn’t have to be hard
Buck drove me crazy.
As anal as I am about my rifles, his idea of sighting in before deer season was to drive out on the pipeline at our lease, throw a gallon cooking oil can out, back off 60-75 yards, take a rest on his elbows, squint through his cheap scope and touch off a .30-06 round from his immensely popular (and notoriously inaccurate) semi-automatic rifle (he even had see-through mounts on the thing!) and bounce the can about 5 feet.[…]
Fishing
Talon holds anglers in shallow water
The word “anchor” starts visions dancing in my head of handling a heavy, muck- and weed-coated chunk of metal connected to a slimy wet rope by a length of rusty chain.[…]
Columns
Bass love Bomber’s Model B
When Oklahoman Edwin Evers needs to put bass in the boat in one of the many high-pressure bass tournaments he fishes, including the recent Bassmaster Elite Series, he goes “hunting” with his favorite balsa wood crankbait — the Bomber Model B.[…]
Columns
It’s time to hit the cooling oxbows
In North Louisiana during October, the weather will start to cool off. The bass will get into their fall mode more quickly than they do in South Louisiana because they’ll start to feel winter approaching.[…]
Columns
Try to beat the odds in 2010
It’s all about the antlers’ was a statement made at the 2006 Southeast Deer Study Group Meeting in Baton Rouge. The evening’s discussion was on the use of antler restrictions (ARs) to produce older and bigger bucks.[…]
Bass Fishing
The haunt for reds in October
For most fly anglers in our state, it’s not the waters that torment us, but what swims in them. As we count down to All Hallow’s Eve, and the invasion of predatory species into our estuaries, the fly fishing can be so good it’s frightening.[…]
Offshore Fishing
Thousands of square miles of Gulf reopened for fishing as special red snapper season begins
Federal authorities opened 5,628 square miles of water in the Gulf of Mexico today (Oct. 1) to all fishing to coincide with the opening of the special red snapper season that began today, the Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries reported.[…]
Contents
Deer Dynamics: Communication
Scent pheromones and their distinct odors are instinctively utilized by whitetails to convey a realm of communication related to dominant hierarchy and sexual interactions. […]