Fishing
Trolling, Traps & Trout
I’m not sure where the black cloud that perennially floats over my head came from, but it has figured out how to stick tight despite my best attempts to try to outrun it in a boat.[…]
Statewide LA
Inshore Fishing
X-2 Deep-Diving Crankbait
Designed to help you catch more bass, ABT Lure Company’s “Next Generation” X-2 lure also significantly reduces resistance upon retrieve, eliminating the normal fatigue associated with fishing a deep-diver for a long period of time.[…]
Contents
2012 Turkey Season Forecast
Nov. 19 was the opening day of the deer gun season in Area 1, and I was sitting in my big ladder stand overlooking a long planted strip at Camp David that I have named the Wildlife Tram.[…]
Columns
Trail camera scouting
This is my inaugural column in Mississippi Sportsman based around the general topic of trail-camera scouting. Each month I will share advice, tips, tactics, strategies and techniques regarding the use of digital scouting cameras that have proven useful to me over time in the successful pursuit of whitetail deer on my farm in west-central Mississippi.[…]
Freshwater Fishing
Hyper Lizard
Lake Fork Trophy Lures’ 9-inch Hyper Lizard is as innovative as it is productive.[…]
Sidebars
Check those pockets
Portable hunting blinds are a great asset to turkey hunters. They hide a hunter’s movement which very much helps when that gobbler hangs up and surveys the situation. I use them all the time for both turkey hunting and deer hunting.[…]
General
Beretta Nano
A great compact carry pistol, the Beretta Nano’s modularity provides for simple disassembly, easy cleaning and the option of customization, which extends beyond the frame to its interchangeable sights and ambidextrous magazine release button.[…]
Sidebars
Should we shoot Jakes?
In Louisiana it is legal to shoot Jakes, the one-year-old gobblers. Some states do not allow this and regulate the harvest with a minimum beard length.[…]
Apex Predator
Quick Freeze: Tips for cleaning your deer and hogs
After wasting too many hours of my life deboning meat and killing too many animals to afford a butcher, I came up with a deboning solution that works like a charm.[…]
Events & Announcements
February issue of Louisiana Sportsman on its way
The staff of Louisiana Sportsman is putting the finishing touches on the February issue, and sending it to the off-site printer today (Jan. 19). It’s 260 pages thick, and it’s loaded with everything you need to know to have success in the field and on the water next month.
Look for it in your mailbox and on newsstands beginning early next week.[…]
Apex Predator
Smokepole stalking success: Follow the bubbles
The last few weekends have netted me a bunch of meat.[…]
Deer Hunting
MIKE GOLDEN, BassHunter520, LETUMGROW win monthly user contests
Users MIKE GOLDEN and BassHunter520 won this month’s photo contests, while longtime member LETUMGROW earned the top spot in the Deer Hunting Video Contest.[…]
Events & Announcements
LWFC ends monthly meeting in executive session
The Louisiana Wildlife and Fisheries Commission took care of some minor housekeeping issues at Thursday’s meeting before reconvening in executive session to discuss details of possible litigation against the state for raiding the Artificial Reef Program fund.[…]
Deer Hunting
Voting begins in Nikon Big Buck Photo, Trail Cam contests
Voting has begun to determine the winners of the December edition of the Nikon Big Buck Photo and Trail Cam contests.[…]
Bass Fishing
Don’t lose your cool — or your lure
About the only thing on a lake’s bottom that never gets tired of biting is the bottom itself. Particularly with moving “reaction” lures like crankbaits, snags are practically an assumption.[…]
Contents
Permanent Plots
In my lifetime, I have only known the Delta to be an expanse of rowed-up dirt that is planted annually with various crops that feed and clothe the world. Deltans can look across a field that continues for miles with no apparent end.[…]