Last month, a reader emailed to say he has a 1985 model 40-horsepower motor, and is having trouble with the water system. He replaced the impeller and the gaskets with an impeller kit, but the engine tell tale is still not as strong as it is supposed to be.[…]
Boaters and anglers often assume that any old sonar unit will find the bottom and track it reliably as they cruise and fish, but that’s not necessarily true.[…]
You know he’s out there. You’ve seen the signs he’s left behind: large tracks, rubs on trees the size of your leg, scrapes the size of a wash tub.[…]
It’s as real to me today as it was when it happened more than half a century ago. When my dad told me to pull on my boots, grab my jacket and come with him, I knew what that meant, especially if it happened on a Saturday morning in October.[…]
Hunt deer in Southeast Louisiana’s piney woods, and you hunt the most thoroughly abominable deer hunting terrain on the continent. The abominations are many and varied.First off, low deer numbers per acre.[…]
Bobby Taylor gave up hunting in the 1980s when all of the land on which he had chased deer for years was leased out. “We used to be able to hunt wherever we wanted,” the Haughton hunter said.[…]
Toward the end of our most recent summer, sleepy-eyed residents lying in bed watching the 10 o’clock news perked up their ears at the mention of four words seldom uttered in the Bayou State: “late August cold front.”[…]
For many outdoor enthusiasts, deer hunting is a hobby.[…]
Have you ever seen a comb over? You know what I’m talking about — a man in his 50s or 60s starts losing hair on top of his head, so he combs the hair on the side over the top.[…]
Purple martins skimmed just above the water slurping tiny insects from mid air above the cypress-laden banks of Grand Pass as Capt. Cade Thomas’ 24-foot Skeeter sliced through the emerald green water.[…]
October begins the best yellowfin tuna fishing of the year — as close as 5 miles south of South Pass. Big tuna move in to feast on the schools of spawning mullet as they migrate into the Gulf of Mexico.[…]
Reading a Louisiana Sportsman article about kayak fishing on Lake Pontchartrain made me curious about how anyone fishes from one of those.[…]
It happens to me all the time. Somebody begins relating the account of some event or occurrence, and in telling the story their account is filled with unrelated and unnecessary details.[…]
Jefferson was just one of several founding fathers who argued in the Federalist Papers and elsewhere that the Judiciary Branch should be, by design, the weakest element of our three-pronged system of government.[…]
The sound of gunfire could be heard from Grand Cheniere to Roanoke Friday morning as hunters took aim at more teal than any could ever remember seeing. […]
In addition to opportunities on several wildlife management areas, the Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries is making three private fields available to dove hunters on opening day.[…]