Columns
The Daisy BB gun
I have no idea what happened to it, but the first honest-to-gosh gun I ever handled was a Daisy BB gun given to me by my dad on my sixth birthday.[…]
August 2014
General
Old tech to the rescue
My town doesn’t allow people to talk on a hand-held cell phone while driving, but hands-free talking is OK so I keep our phones paired through Bluetooth to our two vehicles.[…]
Columns
On offshore patrol
Louisiana’s wildlife enforcement agents patrol some very diverse land and water habitat in the sportsman’s paradise. From hills and creek bottoms to river and coastal plains, from freshwater lakes and streams to fresh and brackish water marshes wildlife agents cover it all.[…]
Columns
Plan ahead like a pro
There are many things that hunters can do ahead of time to ensure they get the most out of their trail camera efforts during the upcoming hunting season.[…]
Columns
Getting juggy with it
Kayak fishing with a rod and reel is certainly popular, but there are other ways to catch fish that work well in a ’yak.[…]
Freshwater Fishing
Eat, sleep, fish
Whoever came up with the “Eat, Sleep, Fish” T-shirt must have been from Louisiana. That’s because usually everywhere you find good fishing, good food can’t be far away.[…]
Inshore Fishing
Vidrine’s speck calendar
Tommy Vidrine’s speckled trout fishing calendar is broken into three segments, and how and where he fishes is different for each period.[…]
Freshwater Fishing
History of Claiborne stripers
Lake Claiborne was completed in 1967. Even before that time, Hood’s father had property on the lake, and the two of them have actually walked all the way across what he calls the Little Lake area of Claiborne, which is the large open area north of the Big Lake but still south of the two large arms that extend far to the north of the spillway almost all the way to downtown Homer in Claiborne Parish.[…]
Inshore Fishing
Philosophy of a predator
“I try to think like a fish,” said Tommy Vidrine, dark eyes burning fiercely. “A predator like a trout is different than a redfish. They will be a predator and a scavenger. Speckled trout are always predators.[…]
Freshwater Fishing
Find your catfish
Sonar expert Doug Vahrenberg offered a few tips for leveraging the perspective of subsurface imaging for effective catfish targeting.[…]
Offshore Fishing
Action and appetizers to catch more amberjack
An interested amberjack needs no coaxing. If they see it, they’ll eat it.[…]
Freshwater Fishing
Tippets
Ask any veteran fly angler and they’ll tell you that August is perhaps the toughest month of the year for fly fishing in Louisiana — with three very notable exceptions.[…]
Offshore Fishing
Amberjack’s family tree
Dark-brown backs, white bellies, a faint golden stripe running nose to tail and a distinctive dark line that reaches from the eye to the anterior (front) dorsal fin are some of the defining marks of a greater amberjack (Seriola dumerili).[…]
Offshore Fishing
Best amberjack fishing gear
Capt. Hunter Caballero’s amberjack gear is no joke: stout, 7 ½-foot rods with Penn 30-wide reels carrying 200-pound braided line.[…]
Freshwater Fishing
Swamp studz?
The lean and tanned 24-year-old had just graduated college with a degree in engineering technology, but you would have to talk to him a long time before that turned up in the conversation.[…]
Freshwater Fishing
Lake Maurepas is a big, little-known lake
Lake Maurepas is a big lake — actually the second-largest lake fully in Louisiana after its big brother Lake Pontchartrain, which lies immediately to the east of Maurepas.[…]