Inshore Fishing
Vudu Shrimp
Can an artificial lure — a soft plastic — outfish a natural creature? That day has arrived and it’s like magic, hence lure’s name, thanks to Ken Chaumont of Lacassine. […]
June 2013
Hunting
The building of ‘Beulah Belle’
In the late ’40s and ’50s, the United States was undergoing a boom economy, recovering from restricted materiel supplies that resulted from World War II. […]
General
Keeping it clean
LCD screen brightness, contrast and resolution improve with every new generation of marine electronics. Higher pixel counts, new sonar technologies, more-vibrant colors and improved visibility under adverse light conditions let us see tiny sonar and chart details that would have been invisible a decade ago without zooming to enlarge the screen picture. […]
Deer Hunting
It just didn’t seem right
A couple of years ago one frosty clear morning in early January 2011, as the whitetail rut was rapidly drawing to a close, I still had not closed the deal on a particular 6 ½-year-old buck that had been on our hit list for the better part of two seasons. […]
Inshore Fishing
When to go to the Chandeleur Islands
The best time to fish the Chandeleurs depends on who you ask.
Capt. Bobby Lewis said he prefers April through May and September through October. […]
Bass Fishing
Cooking striped and hybrid bass
One reason why stripers and hybrids have been slow to catch on with more fishermen is that people consider them poor table fare. […]
Freshwater Fishing
Best techniques for stripers and hybrid bass
There are two ways to catch stripers and hybrid bass. Here are the basics. […]
Bass Fishing
Steve Grace’s top Columbia Lake tips, techniques
Vegetation is the key to success on this lake, Steve Grace said. […]
Freshwater Fishing
Freshwater Fishing
Ultra-light fun
Many of the surface schools you find in late May or early June will be the fish stocked the previous year, and they will not have reached the legal size limit of 15 inches. […]
Freshwater Fishing
Size limits
Striped bass and hybrid striped bass are counted together, with an aggregate limit of six per fishermen allowed each day. There is a 15-inch minimum length limit on both. […]
Catfish
Waking up Pickwick’s flathead catish
Since the few anglers who do target catfish on Pickwick are most interested in trophy blues or eating-sized channels, the sleeper within a sleeper species is flathead catfish. […]