Deer Hunting

Native plants make good summer food plots

The Southeastern United States has long been the envy of the rest of the country for our warm temperatures and sunshine. Winter temperatures may drop even into single digits occasionally in some areas of the South, but typically only for a very short time before it is back near 70.[…]

Columns

Smithwick Elite 8 Suspending Rogue

It wasn’t too long ago that the Elite 8, the eight best college basketball teams in the country playing in the NCAA’s “Big Dance,” were thrilling fans and television audiences in a hopeful waltz to the Final Four and, ultimately, to the title game at the center of every bracket in the U.S.[…]

Coastal Projects

The CWPPRA process

February 25 — A task force made up of representatives from federal agencies such at the Environmental Protection Agency, the Army Corps of Engineers, the National Marine Fisheries Service and coastal parish governments met to narrow down over 60 projects to 21 nominees for funding.[…]

Freshwater Fishing

Tippets

Fly fishing on the coast should be speck-tacular this month as the snaggletooths show up in force on the beaches and in the bays.[…]

Bass Fishing

Peg it and Flip it

Denny Brauer, possibly the most-accomplished flipper in all of bass fishing, knows that preventing his sinker from sliding up his line enhances precision by keeping that weight centered over the bait.[…]

Bass Fishing

Two-way conversation

Inevitably, every bait wears out its welcome at some point. But rather than completely shifting to another scenario, chatterbait anglers can often extend their bite — and adapt to changing conditions — by pairing their bladed package with the similar, yet more-subtle swim jig.[…]

Coastal Projects

The Gulf’s sinking stepping stone

A few hours after the sun goes down, if you’re sitting on the dock stretching out into Bayou Lafourche outside of Lisa Cefalu’s camp in Leeville, you’ll see a giant orange light of what looks like a refinery turning on for the night shift begin to glow.[…]