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.[…]
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?”[…]
While archery hunting began Oct. 1, there is still a lot of deer hunting remaing for this season.[…]
In May 2011, historic flooding once again swamped the Atchafalaya Basin when the Morganza Spillway was opened.[…]
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.[…]
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.[…]
The 2012-13 duck season should be great, even though Hurricane Isaac blasted Southeast Louisiana’s habitat.[…]
Pike said he mostly fishes Bomber mud minnows in glow/chartreuse, electric chicken, all chartreuse or purple/chartreuse, but any color with a chartreuse tail will be effective.[…]
Because he fishes every day, Dr. Bob Weiss has more fishing partners than a bass pro wannabe on the co-angler circuit.[…]
From the season being totally closed in the early part of the 20th century to a limit of two birds in 1962, after 20 years where hunters could harvest just one, in the 2008-09 duck season the daily bag limit for wood ducks went to three.[…]
Nash Roberts IV is a big fan of artificial lures, only turning to live bait during the hot days of June, July and August.[…]
Wood ducks differ and share some characteristics of other species ducks. Several things should be considered when targeting wood ducks:[…]
A guide does not make a living by lures alone. He needs other stuff — reels, rods and line.[…]
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.[…]
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.[…]
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.[…]