Fishing
Angler’s Fish-N-Mate Power Kit
Angler’s Fish-N-Mate Power Kit will turn your Fish-N-Mate or Fish-N-Mate Jr. into a tool for everything from surf and pier fishing to lawn and garden work.[…]
August 2012
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Cranked! Tips for catching summertime marsh bass
“So uhhh — Dad. Why do we have to leave again?” my son Jason asked, while he was setting his crankbait with a solid jerk into another little marsh bass.[…]
Bass Fishing
Size matters
Like most baits, football-heads come in various sizes and styles, with each made to address certain scenarios. For illustrative purposes, Hackney breaks down Strike King’s trio:[…]
General
Camouflage Truck Stencils
Several new products have been released by Camouflage Truck Stencils, including new patterns and sizes of the lightweight, reusable magnetic painting stencils.Several new products have been released by Camouflage Truck Stencils, including new patterns and sizes of the lightweight, reusable magnetic painting stencils.[…]
Freshwater Fishing
Best baits for marsh bass
Marsh bass feed heavily on invertebrates. So anglers should fish trenasses that drain marsh ponds, small bayous that drain into large bayous right at the mouth, pipelines and ditches with water flowing to take advantage of prime ambush areas.[…]
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Goin’ Downstairs: Tips for catching summertime fish deep in the MRGO
The trip looked doomed. It always happens this way. The prospects for the morning’s fishing trip always decrease in direct ratio to the number of wine corks popped and trips to the keg. When Doc cranks up “Shattered” by the Rolling Stones, the plans are seriously tail-spinning.[…]
General
MINOX Nautic Line
The flagship of the expanded Nautic Line of binoculars from MINOX Sport Optics is the BN 7×50 DCM. It features a fully integrated digital compass with automatic tilt compensation, a barometer display with a history recording function, an altitude display, temperature mode and digital stopwatch and time.[…]
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Postage Stamp Plots, Part IV
I pulled my game cam card and anxiously rushed back to the house to see what kind of horn porn awaited me.[…]
Columns
Red Snapper:
Writing about red snapper biology isn’t a lot of fun. In fact, it’s downright depressing. The 40-day recreational season ended in July.[…]
General
Winchester Defender
Winchester Ammunition expands its PDX1 Defender centerfire rifle line with a new 77-grain, .223 Rem cartridge; and for the first time, a .308 Win. round with a revolutionary 120-grain bullet.[…]
Deer Hunting
Third postage-stamp plot results in nephew’s first deer
Several years ago, my grandfather and grandmother planted blueberry bushes and a few assorted pear and apple trees in a spot they used to keep as a garden. They only planted half of that opening, though, and the rest has been allowed to lie fallow.[…]
Hunting
Super Plot
Super Plot from Wildwood Genetics is an economical, three-way blend of wheat, oats and winter peas that allows you to plant a quality plot that will draw wildlife in during the fall and on through the spring.[…]
Deer Hunting
Buck-on-bag seed blends appropriate for small plots
One of the things I love about planting food plots is experimenting with different kinds of seeds. Not only do I like trying out different plants, but I also enjoy comparing feed-store seed with buck-on-bag seed.[…]
Fishing
Rockport Rattler
With its unique rattle chamber, light reflecting eyes that work well in both clear and muddy water and variety of colors and sizes, the Rockport Rattler separates itself from the rest.[…]
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A Grand Plan: Head to the Island for fishing options as varied as your imagination
It was time to put Plan B into action.
Craig Matherne and I had been trying to coax a trout or two to bite on the surf side of Grand Isle, and we were having very little luck.[…]
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A surge of testosterone: One buck’s story
The rut is on. Mature bucks, if not pursuing does, are tending and breeding estrous females.[…]