Louisiana has long captured America’s imagination with its beautiful bayous, delicious cuisine and abundant wildlife. Television shows such as “Swamp People” have only increased that interest — particularly about Louisiana’s famous alligators.[…]
Did you know when mast-producing trees are stressed, as they are in a drought, they produce a bumper crop of acorns?[…]
The key to having a good deer population is to have good reproduction to replace the deer harvested from the previous season and those that die from natural mortality.[…]
September can pose some real challenges for trout fishermen. First, we have weather to contend with and, while that is true in any month, September is the peak of our tropical season — which brings winds and seas to a whole different level.[…]
Jonathan Ryan is an avid speckled-trout angler.
The perfect day for him is finding some new honey hole in what’s left of the Delacroix marsh, and throwing double-rigged Hybrids to specks that are on Jenny Craig’s new plastic-only diet.[…]
My Lucky Craft Sammy topwater landed less than its length from the base of a cypress tree. I mindlessly snapped it back and forth a couple times to impart that lazy walk-the-dog action that big bass just can’t seem to ignore.
At 7:30 in the morning, my shirt was already soaked with sweat, so I diverted my attention away from my Sammy sitting lifelessly on the surface in an effort to see if there was any shade we could get under.
The slurping sound hardly registered in my mind, so when I turned around to walk my Sammy again, I was surprised to find that it was nowhere to be found.[…]
The recoil of the 168 grain Hornady Match A-Max .30-06 rammed the rifle stock backwards, pushing it straight into my shoulder—in line with the prone position I had taken in the gravel shooting pit of the rifle range.[…]
It’s time to plan vacation for the best deer hunting. Also learn the best WMAs to target.[…]
It’s time to start thinking about the upcoming deer season. Also, Capt. Scott Avanzino knows the beaches are full of trout this month.[…]
It’s time to start thinking about the upcoming deer season. Also, Capt. Scott Avanzino knows the beaches are full of trout this month.[…]
The rut is on. Mature bucks, if not pursuing does, are tending and breeding estrous females.[…]
We were actually looking for kingfish, but a different king — this one also robed in silver — came to play, and the day turned interesting in a hurry.[…]
Ten-year-old Phillip Rue was scrunched up on the bow seat of the boat, torquing the handle of the spinning reel ferociously.[…]
“So uhhh — Dad. Why do we have to leave again?” my son Jason asked, while he was setting his crankbait with a solid jerk into another little marsh bass.[…]
I pulled my game cam card and anxiously rushed back to the house to see what kind of horn porn awaited me.[…]
It was time to put Plan B into action.
Craig Matherne and I had been trying to coax a trout or two to bite on the surf side of Grand Isle, and we were having very little luck.[…]