Deer Hunting
Organizations promote traditional archery
The Southern Traditional Archery Association is committed to the preservation of traditional archery in Mississippi.[…]
October 2016
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.[…]
Inshore Fishing
History of Chenier au Tigre
One report has Chenier au Tigre being named because of a large cougar killed there many years ago.[…]
Inshore Fishing
Best bets for October specks
Capt. John Pounders said October also is a great month to target specks in Lafitte — but it can also be a tricky time.[…]
Other Hunting
Top squirrel-hunting tactics
Consistently killing limits of squirrels is no accident, and avid hunter Joe Speyrer puts in a lot of work to ensure he and his sons don’t come home empty handed.[…]
Bass Fishing
Handmade small-profile spinnerbait moves smoothly through grass
A small profile makes a big difference in Southwest Louisiana, where Clint Ward of Lake Charles makes a spinnerbait from scratch to satisfy the needs of both anglers and bass.[…]
Columns
Champion trees and trophy bucks
Records are kept these days of just about everything. As we saw during the 2016 Summer Olympics the old adage “records are made to be broken” is still true.[…]
Ask Captain Paul
Backup, backup, backup
There is hardly a week that goes by that I don’t get asked what can be done to recover lost waypoints, tracks and or routes from a crashed or broken GPS unit or to enter waypoint data into a newer of different brand unit.[…]
Columns
Creature of the Marsh Lagoon
With Halloween coming up, I’ve been looking for a costume resembling one of my favorite science fiction characters: the Gill Man.[…]
Columns
This kind of hind is speckled
Offshore bottom fishermen love groupers, mostly because they are so good to eat.[…]
Bass Fishing
Transitional jerks – Jerkbait fishing tactics
Word association games show us our true perceptions by drawing forth gut responses.[…]
Contents
Outside In — A deer-hunting tactic you never thought of
For about 10 years, I haven’t been able to shake the feeling that I was doing something wrong.[…]
Columns
Hunting tips must fly true
Each year, as bowhunters switch over from shooting their practice tips to broadheads, I see many of come into our archery shop in total states of panic.[…]
Contents
Dark arrows — Top tactics for coastal bowfishing
It wasn’t like shooting fish in a barrel. I thought they would be just kind of sitting there, hovering helplessly in gin-clear water, hypnotized by the boat’s bright lights.[…]