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Big Bucks on Small Tracts
Having been involved with deer management work for 30+ years, it is my opinion that hunting white-tailed deer in the South is more challenging than in any other region of the United States.[…]
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Rock’N Reds
Art Cosby Jr. is one of my favorite people to fish with. Really, he is. But on this fall day, the man wanted to go catch bulls in Southwest Pass.[…]
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Redfish Workout
Bayou La Loutre, I think most will agree, is among our narrower thoroughfares for accessing honeyholes. Compared to the Barataria Seaway, the Houma Navigation Canal and what used to be the Empire and Buras canals, it’s a ditch.[…]
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Makin’ Bacon
When I’m hungry for fish, I don’t care if the fish are hungry,” proclaimed John Supan with a puckish grin. “I love to hook-and-line fish sometimes, but throwing a recreational cast net is much more efficient. It’s fun, too.”[…]
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Kings of the Road
Over four decades of rolling down Louisiana Highway 1 to Grand Isle, I’ve whizzed by hundreds of them — those stalwart souls fishing off the shoulder of the road or its bridges.[…]
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7-Mile Itch
Craig Monroe eased his 22-foot Triton SeaFlight up to the fish-cleaning dock at Venice Marina.[…]
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Breakfast Beaters
“How hard could this be?” I asked myself as my eyes darted from one flock of teal to another. “Don’t know about the rest off these guys, but I’ll be heading back for breakfast before there’s even the slightest sliver of sky between the sun and the horizon.”[…]
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Day-After Doves
A hangover descends over Louisiana dove hunters the Monday after opening weekend. Getting to shoot our guns for two days after we haven’t been able to shoot them for almost six months is on the same level as tossing back two Hurricanes after six months of staying sober.[…]
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2008-09 WMA Forecast
Dramatic changes in the “muzzleloader” deer hunting season, now known as the “primitive weapons” season, high gas prices and extensive flooding in one region of the state are among the headlines before hunters pick up their shotguns, rifles, compound bows and crossbows to hunt their favorite game — big or small — in 2008-09.[…]
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Behind the Line
When Chris Paul pulls up from beyond the three-point line to drain a shot, his effort is rewarded with one more point than he would have made had his feet been in front of the line.[…]
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Yellow Fever
Most people shudder at the though of catching yellow fever. The dreaded disease, which is contracted from infected mosquitos, was last recorded in New Orleans in 1905.[…]
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123 Big Buck Lane
Keith Barre watched a couple of 8-points on his Washington Parish lease grow, consistently collecting pictures of them from trail cameras.[…]
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Cover: August 2008-Hunting
LSU’s telemetry study is discovering some amazing facts about Louisiana’s bucks.[…]
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Cover: August 2008-Fishing
Speckled trout action couldn’t be much better right now. Just ask Renee Brazzel, who caught this 7-pounder during a recent trip out of Venice with Capt. Brandon Carter.[…]
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Scratching that Redfish Itch
In one fluid motion, I made a cast toward the little trenasse that emptied into the canal we were fishing, located just past the mouth of Mosquito Bayou on the northeast side of Mosquito Bay.
Also in fluid motion, I raised my leg in crane-like fashion, and used the top of my foot to itch whatever decided to bite the back of my calf while I wasn’t looking. […]
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Window of Opportunity
It’s amazing the number of infomercials on television now that promise the impossible on an installment plan.[…]