Contents
Sweet Treats – Find better deer hunting on oak flats
Acorns crunched under my boots as my buddy and I pressed farther into the heart of Bogue Chitto National Wildlife Refuge.[…]
Year: 2012
Freshwater Fishing
The Sinkhole
Since mid-summer, Bayou Corne has received plenty of not-so-welcome publicity because of what the media has dubbed the “Bayou Corne Sinkhole.”[…]
Freshwater Fishing
An author too!
Besides being a fanatical angler, Jim Looney is the author of 12 fishing booklets focused on how to catch bass, bream and sac-a-lait in the Grand Bayou-Bayou Corne areas, as well as the Atchafalaya Basin. He also covers redfish and speckled trout in Pointe au Chien.[…]
Fishing
Latest Lowrance fish finder has more user-friendly touchscreen
Lowrance introduced the HDS Gen2 line of fishfinders and fishfinder/GPS combination units during the spring of 2012 and in October introduced the latest expansion of the top-selling multifunction display units, HDS Gen2 Touch.[…]
Inshore Fishing
Stick, Move and Communicate — Catch more redfish on tough fishing days
As a soldier in a field-artillery unit based in Baumholder, Germany, three words drilled into my government-issue brain were shoot, move and communicate.[…]
Inshore Fishing
Lake Salvador offers easy access to trout, other species
Late last week an east wind howled over Lake Salvador, but that did not stop Luling angler Bruce McDonald, his fishing buddy Andre Cambre and I from landing multiple species of fish – including more than 50 speckled trout – on an afternoon fishing trip.[…]
Deer of the Year
Opelousas hunter walks up on 140-inch buck
What’s in a name?
Well, if you’re Hunter Simoneaux, quite a bit, apparently. He’s been hunting deer since he was 6 years old. And now, as part of a group of friends and family that hunts on 1,100 acres just north of Alexandria, he prides himself on doing everything by the book, and then some.[…]
Deer of the Year
Ruston insurance agent kills Union Parish buck scoring nearly 150 inches
Ruston insurance agent, Dan Preaus, is serious about his deer hunting. This time last year, Preaus was featured in Louisiana Sportsman with a story about his conquest of a 12-point buck he arrowed on family property on October 23. That buck scored 147 4/8 inches.[…]
Deer of the Year
Leesville meat hunter takes 147-inch trophy
They say a picture is worth a thousand words.
That’s definitely the case for Johnny Gallion, who for the better part of two months, had been spotting a 10-point buck on a trail camera he set up on a small tract of land he hunts near Leesville.[…]
Inshore Fishing
Cocodrie trout, reds move to deeper water
This fall has gotten off to a tremendous start, with anglers all over the marshes of South Louisiana filling their ice chests with limits of specks and reds.[…]
Deer of the Year
‘Work weekend’ traded in for 145-inch Tunica Hills trophy
We all should have camp work weekends like Justin Moran.[…]
News Breaker
CORRECTION: Youth waterfowl hunters must be 15 years or younger
A story on the benefits of youth waterfowl hunting in the November 2012 issue of Louisiana Sportsman contained erroneous regulations for the ages of hunters eligible for youth hunts.[…]
Inshore Fishing
Big Lake reds schooling up, making for easy fishing
These were rather big “school” reds. Slot reds in the upper limits, really![…]
Deer of the Year
East Baton Rouge doe hunt ends with 160-inch buck
Sometimes nothing goes your way when you hit the woods, but then there are the times when everything just falls into place.[…]
Columns
Smith & Wesson hits the ‘sweet spot’ with their new Shield
One of my favorite “working” handguns has become my Smith & Wesson Military & Police Pro series pistol in 9 mm. This gun has a factory 4 1/2-pound trigger pull, and I recently purchased a Level III retention holster.[…]
Fishing
The most important electrical impulses are between your ears
Floating around for three hours with nothing but a Coleman cooler between you and drowning is enough to make a guy and his friends renew the commonsense boating habits they’ve let slide.[…]