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Cover: January 2013
You won’t believe what Casey Young went through to kill this 205-inch deer. Story on page 12.[…]
January 2013
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Back and Forth — Top winter fishing tips for Delacroix trout
If you live in the northern tier of the United States during the month of January, you’d better really like your wife.[…]
Bass Fishing
Suspended Animation —Jerkbait tips for wintertime bass fishing
Cold water, shallow water, clear water; plenty of situations make it hard to get fish to bite. For largemouth bass, one of the biggest mistakes anglers make in these conditions is fishing too fast and pulling baits through the strike zone with only a brief window of opportunity for predators to make their move. […]
Inshore Fishing
Live shrimp makes things a little easier
Believe it or not, live shrimp are often still available in Delacroix for much of this month.[…]
Bass Fishing
Jerkbait enhancement
With any jerkbait, a suspending posture at rest is usually what you want, but some days find the fish most interested in falling baits.[…]
Inshore Fishing
Everybody’s working for the weekend
Delacroix is less than an hour from New Orleans, and about two hours from Baton Rouge, so day trips there are easy.[…]
Bass Fishing
Suspend in the salt
When winter pushes trout and redfish into deeper canals and inner marsh arteries, suspending baits often earn the attention denied to sinking and faster-moving baits.[…]
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Bark up the right tree – How to make the most of squirrel hunting with dogs
Somewhere inside the small patch of woods surrounded by sugarcane fields, Hoke hunted. Maybe no more than 20 acres in size, if you flew over it the woodland would resemble a postage stamp stuck in the middle of an envelope.
A mix of hackberry, swamp maple, water and pin oaks, the isolated habitat wasn’t large enough to support a deer population, but it’s perfect for big red fox squirrels.
Hoke was used to the terrain, having hunted it before. There’d be no surprises on the afternoon. The goal was simply to spend a couple of hours hunting on a day already short because of winter, and if all went well the day would culminate with shooting a couple of the tree dwellers for the pot.[…]
Inshore Fishing
Z-Man offers something truly different
Louisiana anglers, by and large, hate soft-plastic baits that tear up quicker than wet toilet paper.[…]
Bass Fishing
Tackle up
West Monroe’s Jim Dillard throws his jerkbaits on a long rod of 6-foot-10 to 7-2, but nothing too heavy.[…]
Other Hunting
Binoculars are essential equipment
Essential equipment for squirrel hunters who may or may not use a dog includes a good, quality pair of binoculars.[…]
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Tracking a Booner — One DeSoto Parish deer became a Boone & Crockett buck
Wildlife research is conducted to learn information about a particular species. Where does it live? What does it eat? What is its breeding chronology? What are its habits?[…]
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East Bay C&B — Load the boat with ducks and a variety of fish
After the stomping the Saints put on Detroit in the Dome, we were seriously pumped for the match in San Francisco the following week. For the occasion, Doc even installed an even wider screen TV in his Venice houseboat.[…]
Other Hunting
Choosing the right load
Squirrels are abundant statewide and found in every terrain, from piney woods to bottomland hardwoods to coastal marshes.[…]
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The more things change — Fishing for trout, bass, redfish at The Pen
Change is inevitable in coastal marsh.
The tide gives when it rises and takes away when it falls.
Land piles up in some places while washing away in others.
Fish that you couldn’t stop from biting one day cease to exist the next.
Nowhere is this change more evident than in The Pen. One of the most-famous fishing holes in all of Southeast Louisiana, this Lafitte hotspot once wasn’t even a lake.[…]
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Looking back — Hunting has changed over the past few decades
My butt hurt and my back ached. For several hours I’d been sitting against a small holly tree watching a glade filled with rubs.[…]