The sounds are unmistakable. SSSLURP! POP! SMACK!
When bluegill rise to grab surface meals, they know they’re vulnerable to bass, ospreys, herons and other predators. Therefore, they have to be sure of a worthwhile payoff, and nature provides plenty in the way of aquatic insects and other bugs that fall to the water’s surface.[…]
Designed for extreme sighting speed and superior accuracy, Nikon’s new P-22 riflescopes are the rimfire-optimized variant of Nikon’s growing line of precision optics for AR rifles.[…]
Capt. Zutie Auenson has two fishing seasons. From sometime in September until late April, he charters from his permanent home in Golden Meadow.[…]
My colleague and accomplished fly tier, Reb Stewart recently gave me a box of foam-bodied poppers and various insect patterns. The colors looked good, the legs and antennae, etc. all set just right.[…]
Earning Suzuki its seventh NMMA Innovation Award, the DF300AP 4-stroke outboard motor has great new features, including Suzuki Selective Rotation.[…]
A person can’t successfully charter fish for 28 years without accumulating a bag of tricks. Zutie Auenson is no exception. Here are some of his.[…]
Cast farther and more accurately than ever before with the Captain CatchEmAll Baitkeeper Cup.[…]
Following my GPS, I tentatively nosed my truck through the fortress-like gates of Mariners Cove in Slidell. When the man invited me to hunt alligator gar in the canal behind his house, I had just kind of assumed that the trail would lead me to a rural backwater retreat in the salt marshes between Slidell and Lake Pontchartrain.[…]
With patented all-aluminum interlocking floors; all-welded, wood-free deck construction; and a patented, integrated performance wave shield, Veranda pontoons are built to last a lifetime.[…]
The anchor hadn’t settled on the bottom good before my wife made her first cast toward the trees along a stretch of Bear Bayou we regularly fish. As normal, she wasn’t playing around.[…]
Louisiana Sportsman is of course the best outdoor publication around, but I do read a few others. So when the March 2012 issue of Petersen’s Hunting hit the mailbox I took a quick look at the petersenshunting.com page for the monthly highlights.[…]
In February, the Wyoming state legislature considered an amendment to a bill requiring that state to purchase an aircraft carrier. Even though it failed, there were 22 legislators who voted for the amendment.[…]
A recent concealed carry class included a newlywed couple. The young woman was an attractive emergency room nurse with a winning smile, long brown hair and a dad who was a retired federal law enforcement officer.[…]
This is my son’s first year of playing kid-pitch baseball.
After looking like an all-star in the batting cages during his first practice, he stood on deck and watched the batter before him take a hardball to the lower back in his team’s first attempt to hit off of an inconsistent 9-year-old pitcher.[…]
For a man who has been making some of the finest artificial lures in the country for 31 years, Texan Lonnie Stanley sure was talking excitedly — gushing, actually — at length a few weeks ago about his newest baby: a Wedgetail Mini Wedge Runner.[…]
The late Ken Morgan believed that turkey hunting was a one-man game. In fact, he wrote a book titled “Turkey Hunting: A One Man Game.”[…]