Inshore Fishing
Try this popping cork in windy conditions
While many anglers like light, subtle presentations in all aspects of their fishing, throwing unweighted popping corks in a windy month like April just isn’t going to cut it.[…]
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Inshore Fishing
Coastal areas heat up for Dularge trout
One of the major keys to being a successful angler is being mobile and following the fish around with the changing season.[…]
Freshwater Fishing
Top 5 crappie fishing tips for West Pearl River
Since he spends a lot of time chasing white perch on the West Pearl River, Brian Baldwin has compiled a laundry list of tips that helps him put together a nice box of fish just about every time he goes.[…]
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How to clean tuna
Yellowfin tuna are delectable table fare, but only if properly cleaned and handled.[…]
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Best live-bait tuna rigs
Will Wall builds his tuna live-bait rigs around bent-butt rods constructed on 60-80 blanks by JPR Custom Rods of Morton, Penn.[…]
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The best tuna chumming tool
Tuna fishing off the Louisiana coast can demand lots of chumming, especially on low-current days when the fish can only be called picky.[…]
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Venice is tuna heaven
Venice offers more access to good tuna grounds than any other port, according to Wall.[…]
Offshore Fishing
Yes, courtesy!
It can get very crowded at some of the rigs that tuna like to haunt. On the day that Wall and Ballavares put Pelas and Bruce on their fish, eight boats were working the same fish at the same rig.[…]
Offshore Fishing
What is the new Port Eads?
For one thing, the modern and comfortable facility set in the middle of the world’s most fertile fishing grounds is not simply Port Eads. It’s now called the Port Eads Marina.[…]
Bass Fishing
Keys to North Louisiana lunker bass
Would you like to get Sontus Mitchell’s top tips for catching lunker largemouths on five popular North Louisiana lakes and rivers?[…]
Bass Fishing
Top big-bass gear
Sontus Mitchell has a big 20-foot Triton fiberglass bass rig with plenty of storage compartments. Good thing: He’s armed like a big-bass SWAT team member, with bags of fishing tricks stowed here and there in every corner of the rig.[…]
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Sometimes turkey hunting is a marathon
Jerry Antley can’t count the times he’s been turkey hunting nor the number of turkeys he’s taken in the past 40 to 50 years.[…]
Fishing
Tippets
Spawning bass will be the top fly target this month.
Cast a woolybugger, leech pattern, Bass Bully, Sqwirm Worm, Grim Reaper or Y2K Bugger slightly past the fish, and then twitch it slowly across the bed.[…]
Other Hunting
Musking is important
Raccoon is a mystery meat to most game cooks. Much of it has to do with the mumbo jumbo associated with removing the musk glands from the animal.[…]
Other Hunting
How to cook raccoon
There was something primal about it — grown men imbibing beverages around a fire, watching meat sizzle and talking about politics, cooking, hunting and trapping.[…]
Other Hunting
The coon dog man
The people in the little hamlet of Tangipahoa call George Ricks “The Dog Man.” Everywhere he goes, Claire Bell, his retired-from-hunting treeing walker hound, rides with him. […]