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Five tactical considerations
Wood ducks differ and share some characteristics of other species ducks. Several things should be considered when targeting wood ducks:[…]
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Inshore Fishing
Best equipment when fishing for trout
A guide does not make a living by lures alone. He needs other stuff — reels, rods and line.[…]
Inshore Fishing
Hollow Who Dat Spoon three baits in one
The Who Dat chant at Saints games rings a little hollow this year, but for Capt. John Falterman Jr. and other Louisiana anglers throwing the Bomber Who Dat Spoon, they don’t mind a hollow Who Dat.[…]
Deer Hunting
Acorns held on longer during 2011-12 hunting season
If your plots grew tall last year because deer were busy eating acorns in the hardwoods, you’re not alone. Deer were difficult to hunt last season because they had so much hard mast in the woods to eat that they didn’t have to venture too far away from this secluded food source.[…]
Inshore Fishing
High-tech trolling motor a space-age anchor
John Falterman Jr. considers his Minn Kota i-Pilot trolling motor instrumental in his approach to saltwater fishing nowadays, and the feature that he has found most helpful is it’s Spot Lock system.[…]
Deer Hunting
Attract more deer by planting hard mast trees
I got hooked on planting food plots several years ago, but it didn’t take too long for me to figure out that I needed something more than green patches if I hoped to create a property that provided something more than just a spot to shoot deer.[…]
Inshore Fishing
Beat low tide ranges with bottlenecks and windblown banks
Low tidal ranges can be the death knell for saltwater anglers. Simply put, when the water’s not moving, the fish aren’t biting.[…]
Freshwater Fishing
Looney’s Bayou Corne sac-a-lait tackle
Jim Looney is an artificial bait kind of guy. Except when he is targeting bream in the heat of the summer, live bait is never on his hook.[…]
Freshwater Fishing
The Sinkhole
Since mid-summer, Bayou Corne has received plenty of not-so-welcome publicity because of what the media has dubbed the “Bayou Corne Sinkhole.”[…]
Freshwater Fishing
An author too!
Besides being a fanatical angler, Jim Looney is the author of 12 fishing booklets focused on how to catch bass, bream and sac-a-lait in the Grand Bayou-Bayou Corne areas, as well as the Atchafalaya Basin. He also covers redfish and speckled trout in Pointe au Chien.[…]
Freshwater Fishing
Learn It!
Like so much of Louisiana, the Bayou Corne/Grand Bayou area seems to be a maze of canals and bayous. All of them look almost the same, so “what does a poor girl do?”[…]
Deer Hunting
Sherburne complex season dates
While archery hunting began Oct. 1, there is still a lot of deer hunting remaing for this season.[…]
Deer Hunting
Sherburne WMA deer recover from 2011 flooding
In May 2011, historic flooding once again swamped the Atchafalaya Basin when the Morganza Spillway was opened.[…]
Deer Hunting
Indian Bayou Area offers more deer-hunting opportunities
Directly across the Atchafalaya River on its western bank in St. Landry and St. Martin parishes, another 28,500 acres of mixed swamps and hardwood bottomlands provide even more public access to deer hunting.[…]
Bass Fishing
Go identical to trigger more bass strikes
You would be hard pressed to find a spinnerbait at your local tackle shop that featured two blades of the same size. The front one is usually smaller than the rear one because it helps the blades work in harmony with each other.[…]
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Hurricane effect means more ducks this season
The 2012-13 duck season should be great, even though Hurricane Isaac blasted Southeast Louisiana’s habitat.[…]