Fishing for saltwater fish isn’t a highly technical endeavor. Throw a few plastic cocahoes, a handful of jigheads and a couple popping corks in your box, and you’ll be ready to catch just about anything that swims.[…]
The story begins way back in my early turkey hunting years. I was turkey hunting before turkey hunting, like country music, was cool. Come to think of it, is listening to country music, if real country music exists anymore, now uncool?[…]
Stretching from Jefferson Parish on the south shore to St. Tammany on the north, the 24-mile-long double spans constitute the longest bridge in the world.[…]
The high tide wasn’t until 11 a.m., so there was no rush.[…]
After Amy grabbed her door prize from Masson, he stuck his hand back in the box and pulled another ticket and called the name. “Amy Weaver,” he repeated.[…]
Webster defines “advantage” as a more favorable position or superiority.[…]
Last year, specked trout along most of the coast almost jumped in anglers’ boats. Catching limits was simply assumed.[…]
Zack Gagnard has had more success fishing bass tournaments than many men triple his age.[…]
Hunting shed antlers has become a popular activity in the South over the last few years.Practiced by hunters and non-hunters alike, this newfound sport produces many rewards beyond simply adding another big shed to a growing collection of deer antlers.[…]
The uproar from Bourbon Street was deafening. A sea of flushed faces, buggy eyes and wildly waving arms clamored for Mardi Gras treats.[…]
We all like to think our success in fishing is due to great technical skill and vast knowledge of the aquatic species, but to be truthful, luck has often played a large role in my outdoor career.[…]
In the 1960s, the only jobs available in the Bayou Lafourche area related to either fishing, sugar cane or oil. But the development of the Frasch process — a mining technique that recovers up to 92 percent of a salt dome’s recoverable sulphur — made it possible for companies to exploit the vast underground sulphur deposits under Louisiana’s marshes.[…]
Tumultuous seas rocked the 26-foot boat as Craig Monroe and John Swincinski surveyed the churning waters near the jagged legs of the Seven Mile rigs south of Venice.[…]
“There he is, just to the right of the blind. See him?”
“Yeah.”[…]
Maybe now, I thought, he’ll believe me. He never believed me. Even when we were teenagers, he always thought I was trying to put one over on him. And now that I think about it, a lot of times that’s exactly what I was doing.[…]
Louisiana Sportsman asked Bobby Phillips of West Monroe, owner of the Honey Hole Tackle Shop for 16 years, who recently retired to have more time for his favorite sport, crappie fishing, where to find the biggest crappie in Louisiana and how to catch them.[…]