What constitutes a trophy? If you ask my 4-year-old son, it’s the Piston Cup from the movie Cars. He knows the movie by heart, and every time he sees a car on TV now, he asks if they’re trying to win the make-believe trophy. In his eyes, the Piston Cup is a trophy.[…]
One of the reasons Bill McCarty has been successful on the bass tournament trail is the same reason he catches bass more often than not in the Atchafalaya Basin in March, a time when the nation’s last great overflow swamp is high and some anglers go elsewhere.[…]
The rod butt displayed a sharp set of graphics with detailed images of a speckled trout and a redfish flanking the model name “Marsh Master.”[…]
When Kentucky Derby winner Barbaro went down with a shattered leg just out of the gate at the Preakness, even those who don’t follow thoroughbred racing were saddened.[…]
Have you ever seen those guys on TV trying to catch a bedding bass during some big-money tournament? Man, they have it made. Crystal clear water, big shiny beds, hardly any wind … and then they prance around and kiss the fish or yell at the poor thing after they yank it over the side of their boat.[…]
South: Can’t catch specks in February? You can in two spots featured in this issue.[…]
North: You won’t believe the quality of the bucks killed this season.[…]
Video games and baseball are too boring for Mason Griffin. His favorite hours of the year are when he’s stalking, calling, listening and aiming.[…]
When I woke up this morning, I immediately noticed something was different. It was just starting to break daylight, and I hadn’t heard the first vehicle come down the old gravel road.[…]
This is a Louisiana Sportsman classic. It first appeared in the magazine in February 2002. The information contained in it is as useful today as it was when it first ran.[…]
A solitary loon swam gracefully across the surface of one of the narrow cuts that intersected the Wilkinson Canal. Darkness obscured the hoist at the nearby Myrtle Grove marina as a steady stream of boats idled slowly down the long canal.[…]
Don’t read any further unless you want to eliminate all your reasons for not achieving greatness. Clay Dyer’s motto, “If I can, you can,” will do away with your excuses for not becoming whatever you desire in life.[…]
A thick layer of fog hugged the ground as I wound my way east on Highway 90 through the Rigolets and north toward the East Pearl Launch at the base of the Pearlington Bridge.[…]
I couldn’t help but note the irony. It was a classic show-and-tell. Three clear and plaintive “bobwhite” calls drifted through the pines to the ears of our crew — calls made by three different birds.[…]
I knew it was going to be a different kind of day when Scottie Holland with Louisiana Hog Hunters in Natalbany handed me a clipboard and asked me to sign a release.[…]
Cockroaches get hip to our methods of massacring them and develop defenses. Bacteria do the same. Then brilliant folks in lab coats get their dander up, spit on their hands and spend months of painstaking labor in laboratories peering into microscopes, mixing deadly concoctions and checking results.[…]