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Phishing like Phelps
We were working a large cove off Delacroix’s Bay Shallow, when the redfish gave its location away with a swirling turn much too large to be a mullet.[…]
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Locust Liars
What is it about a place where lots of anglers go to catch fish, and none of them want to admit where they’ve been going? By lots of anglers, I mean so many going there that it looks like a four-lane bank drive-thru on payday afternoon.[…]
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7 Deadly Spots
Here in the Gulf South, August is traditionally the hottest month of the year. We’re all hoping this year will be the exception because our summer heat has been blistering and record-setting so far. The[…]
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Cat and Mouse
Put some whiskers on a cobia, and there’s no doubt it would be more like a cat than a catfish. I mean, toss a string without a hunk of stink-bait on it in front of a catfish, and watch what happens.[…]
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Dollar Pitcher Days
Catching redfish out of Lafitte during the summer is a little like dancing the Cotton-Eyed Joe during dollar-pitcher night. You’ve got to be able to go forward. You’ve got to be able to go backward.[…]
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Low Lake, High Dividends
It was one of those perfect days for catching white perch — cold, overcast and a light wind. […]
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Postage Stamp Plots
Last deer season, I learned that the thrill of the hunt for me is more in the preparation and the chase than the kill.[…]
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Cover: August 2009-Fishing
In August, seas are flat, bait is everywhere and cobia move in close for the feast. On terra fima, seer hunters start to make serious plans for rapidly approaching seasons.[…]
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Cover: August 2009-Hunting
In August, seas are flat, bait is everywhere and cobia move in close for the feast. On terra fima, seer hunters start to make serious plans for rapidly approaching seasons.[…]
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Herk’s Half-Dozen
Grand Isle is a seven-square-mile barrier island connected to the rest of Louisiana by a narrow causeway.[…]
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Life in the Fast Lane
At the expense of small towns all across America, the Interstate system became a traveler’s best friend as Americans realized they could speed from one side of the country to the other without anything in their way.[…]
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Alligator Ambush
For most hunters, the traditional fall and winter hunting season begins the first Saturday in September when dove season opens.[…]
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Great 8
Taking a topwater to the crotch doesn’t sound like something a speckled trout angler would have to worry about. Sling a trout in the boat, let him flop around on the floor, grab him and unhook him.[…]
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Heavy Hitters in Trout Ball
When does a speckled trout cross over from the indignity of school-trout status into the glory realm of trophy trout?[…]
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The Lady and the Kid
“Well, at least the pork chop sandwich is good.” A half hour earlier, at 5 a.m., I stepped out of my truck under the Seabrook Bridge and a 20-mph wind hit me in the face like I had been smacked with a cast-iron frying pan.[…]
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River Wild, Part I
Today, the Red River is a fishing mecca. Both largemouth and white bass prowl around its rock jetties, huge catfish lurk in the deep holes and crappie school up on the oxbow lakes.[…]