Columns
Lafayette exec cooks from his roots
Lafayette’s Pat Attaway shares with Louisiana Sportsman his Cajun recipes for Mother’s Courtbouillon and Shrimp and Avocado Dip.[…]
October 2016
Fishing
Getting wired – Proper wiring for your boat
Wires are the blood vessels of your boat’s electrical system. If they aren’t right, everything that runs on amps and volts is at risk.[…]
Columns
Feral hogs on the loose
On July 28, the Louisiana Departments of Agriculture and Forestry and Wildlife and Fisheries hosted a meeting in Mansura.[…]
Columns
Get out and scout
When it comes to early season scouting for bucks with trail cameras, monitoring rubs and rub lines can be a very effective technique.[…]
Columns
Kayak snapper
A chunk of dead bait swirls through clear blue water toward the bottom. Before it lands, it’s inhaled by a fat red snapper.[…]
Inshore Fishing
Pro bowfishing tips
With a little coaching, bowfishing techniques are easy to learn, even for the most inexperienced.[…]
Deer Hunting
Deer hunting is a family affair
Not many second-graders would be excited to move from one end of the state to the other, but it was OK with Brad Smith.[…]
Inshore Fishing
Top bowfishing tools
Early in the evening, Roy Lally IV explained the tools of the trade to me, starting with the most obvious: bows.[…]
Deer Hunting
Smith’s favorite big-buck gear
A climbing stand, a bow and arrow, and a bag of buck treasures is all Brad Smith needs in his quest of one more trophy deer.[…]
Inshore Fishing
Best times to go bowfishing
By the very laws of nature, much fishing and hunting is cyclical and seasonal. Not so with marsh bowfishing, Capt. Graylin Schultheis said.[…]
Deer Hunting
Keys to early season bachelor party
Early in the season, bucks still run pretty much together, and it’s not uncommon to see eight to 10 bucks in the same group.[…]
Deer Hunting
Stick bows growing in popularity
The amount of dedication traditional archery requires and the patience it takes to harvest an animal might dissuade some from trying a stick bow. It’s likely the reason the number of traditional hunters is relatively small.[…]
Deer Hunting
Organizations promote traditional archery
The Southern Traditional Archery Association is committed to the preservation of traditional archery in Mississippi.[…]
Deer Hunting
Longbow or recurve?
For thousands of years the longbow design hasn’t changed much. It’s quite simply a single piece of wood with a string attached at both ends.[…]
Inshore Fishing
Tippets
Down on the coast, it’s prime time for speckled trout. Whether it’s over reefs, in tidal bayous, or dead-end canals, you can’t go wrong casting a weighted Clouser or shrimp pattern set about 30 inches below a VOSI, the flyrodders’ popping cork. […]
Inshore Fishing
How oak cheniers were formed
Most waterfowl hunters and fishermen are vaguely aware that Highway 82, which runs the length of Cameron and Vermilion parishes, follows lines of live oak trees, while much of the surrounding countryside is wide open marsh.[…]