Currents
2012 will be different — really, it will
Up until a couple of years ago, I did all of my exercising at a popular health club that was frustratingly crowded every day of the week.[…]
Statewide LA
General
Midnight at the marina
It is midnight at the marina where your boat is moored, and water is slowly rising in its bilge. The float switch turns on your automatic bilge pump, but it can’t stay ahead of the leak and the water level creeps upward.[…]
Apex Predator
The trick to scent-free boots
I find most hunters take good care of their clothes with scent-prevention tactics, but they give little notice to their boots. Just because they are rubber doesn’t mean your aren’t putting scent down. While you might not be leaving your scent on the earth where you step, any odor will be released in the air along the path traveled.
It’s the item you wear the most but wash the least, so I’m going to share my tricks to eliminating odor in boots.[…]
News Breaker
Ducks flock to Louisiana for second split of hunting season
An estimated 2.42 million ducks had made their way to Louisiana by mid December, which is slightly higher than the most-recent five year average, the Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries has said.
“The estimated 2.42 million ducks on this survey is a 31-percent increase over the 1.84 (million birds) estimated in November, is 11 percent higher than last December’s estimate of 2.17 million (ducks) and is slightly higher than the most-recent five-year average of 2.25 million (birds),” the LDWF report reveals.[…]
Events & Announcements
LDWF announces $2.2 million in budget cuts
The Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries will slash its budget by $2.2 million, the agency announced today.[…]
Waterfowl & Duck Hunting
First split great for those with water
With the East Zone wrapping up the first split last weekend and the West Zone set to close this weekend, hunters around the Bayou State are enjoying a great start to the duck season.[…]
Bass Fishing
Yellow Magic
Sixty-year-old Texan Butch Ray can relate to the buzz heard for months this year around Toledo Bend and on Southwest Louisiana waters about a high-end topwater bait with a beautiful body and a seductive sound.[…]
General
Off-season battery care
Fishing and boating tend to slow down during the winter months, but letting your battery maintenance slow down can be expensive.[…]
Columns
This perch is a hussy
Sometimes we can’t help but assign human traits to other creatures, no matter how scientifically incorrect it is. So it is with the green sunfish, Lepomis cyanellus.[…]
Currents
Artificial Intelligence
A decade from now, when coastal anglers are fishing over artificial reefs loaded with speckled trout and redfish, they may have Mike Voisin to thank.[…]
Columns
Winter yak fishing
Wintertime fishing in South Louisiana can be fantastic. The cold weather brings less fishing pressure and concentrates the fish in many areas that are easily accessible to kayak anglers.[…]
Columns
Breaking in the .22-250
I was more than a little frustrated, and embarrassed to boot.[…]
Columns
Success is all about timing
If you like baseball, then you probably watched the World Series games between the Rangers and the Cardinals. If you did, you saw some excellent hitting — Albert Pujols hitting three homers in a game, Josh Hamilton hitting what Ranger fans thought was the Series winner in Game 6.[…]
Contents
Back Off
I’m not sure what it means to hunt anymore.
I used to know, when I snuck through the hardwood ridge between my parent’s house and the Bogue Chitto River with my single-shot 20-gauge shotgun crossing my chest at the ready, listening for shaking tree branches.[…]
Deer Hunting
Walk a mile in deer shoes
Not just a deer hunter, Washington Parish resident Karl Casanova travels up north every year to get in a little turkey hunting.[…]
Deer Hunting
Just how stupid are love-struck bucks?
Just this past October, Roanoke based bass tournament pro and avid deer hunter Dennis Tietje shot a 177-pound 7-point buck that was just about as stupid as a worked-up teenager in the backseat of his parents’ car.[…]