When the press release about Garmin’s new marine-oriented Quatix sport watch hit my inbox, I opened it with lukewarm enthusiasm — but the more I read about it the more excited I got.
Two basic advantages of a watch with built-in GPS are that you don’t have to set it manually when you cross into another time zone and it can be accurate to within about a billionth of a second or, say, within one second every 30,000 years.[…]
The 2013 red snapper fishing season opens Saturday off the coast of Louisiana, with state wildlife enforcement agents enforcing only state regulations out to just past 10 miles.
And reports from fishing guides indicate there are plenty of fish around the rigs.
“The snapper are so thick, they’ll pretty much bite on anything.” Tommy Pellegrin with Custom Charters said.[…]
On Monday, Cap. Kade Shaw was fighting fog and high winds on Calcasieu Lake after launching from Hebert’s Landing.[…]
Life is ever changing, and that’s never more true than in tournament bass fishing. And the 2013 Louisiana Sportsman Bass Championship is a prime example of just how much of a difference the turning of the heavens can make.[…]
We all know the importance of introducing kids to fishing. Getting them “hooked” early will teach them a wide range of skills and help create memories that will last a lifetime.[…]
“We were a little concerned that he might not like it and we made that two hour drive for nothing, but that was definitely not the case,” Jayson Poucher said of his son Braydon’s first kayak fishing trip.[…]
Conditions were clear and calm for the first couple of hours of the Skeeter-Yamaha Louisiana Sportsman Bass Championship, and then the wind began wailing out of the south.[…]
Saturday morning, Dean Rojas felt like his game was dying, that perhaps his chance of victory in the Sabine River Challenge presented by STARK Cultural Venues was slipping through his fingers.[…]
It was a short workday for Todd Faircloth on Friday.[…]
Capt. Chris Pike with Cast and Blast Charters has been smashing the trout in Delacroix for the past few days. The key is understanding where to fish on any given day, he said.[…]
Dean Rojas of Lake Havasu City, Ariz., with a history of wins on Toledo Bend Reservoir, shone equally bright Thursday on the Sabine, the big lake straddling the river to the north.[…]
In addition to its trademark spinnerbait, Slam Dunk also has resurrected the Thumper jig.[…]
A machinist’s touch has made all the difference in the world to a spinnerbait made in the Sportsman’s Paradise. Just ask some bass anglers by the name of Shaw Grigsby and Kevin Van Dam, who make sure they get their hands on the lure any time they get to Louisiana. Or ask accomplished Louisiana bass angler Jamie Laiche of Gonzales.[…]
Personal flotation devices are required for each person aboard a boat, but not just any old PFD will pass muster: Only those models of life jackets approved by the U.S. Coast Guard are acceptable.
And that’s becoming an issue, the Louisiana Department of Wildlife & Fisheries announced today.[…]
Standard Mapping maps have been the golden standard for Louisiana anglers for years, but now the same high-definition imaging that makes their printed products so useful are now available for Lowrance’s HDS system.[…]
One of the top movies of 2012 was “Life of Pi.” It’s the story of a young Indian boy named Pi, victim of a shipwreck who spends over 200 days aboard a small boat with a Bengal tiger. He survives by catching fish.[…]