Spring is full speed ahead on the bayou with summer quickly approaching. With so many other obligations, both paying and non-paying, it seems that my blog posts have been few and far between. Sometimes I put too much pressure on myself to come up with something witty and entertaining, when maybe you are content just to read about what’s going on in everyday bayou life. Like good friends do, we should just share what’s happening on a regular basis, right?

Strange title but hopefully just strange enough to lure you into reading this little fishing report from last Friday. Since late October, the trout have been elusive in Lake Decade, and while everyone I talk to has their own theory as to why, none of us really knows why for sure.  Somehow, though, since Thanksgiving,…

A recent phone call from my fishing buddy, Lyle Johnson, resulted in plans for filming a little fishing trip for the recently reinstated outdoors show “Ascension Outdoors”, co-hosted by Lyle and his brother-in-law, Goosie Guice. I’m not sure why they call him Goosie, but it might have something to do with the fact that he was a championship duck caller at one time. Heck, he might still be for all I know.

It was a long time coming, but Mrs. Coach’s family and another guest family finally arrived Wednesday evening after a couple days of traveling down from Oklahoma. I felt like I was not meeting a new friend, but seeing an old friend again for the first time in a long time. Does that make sense?

The World Wide Web has blasted open the doors and windows of opportunity for finding those out-of-the-way people and places. The variety of folks who have managed to find this little bayou down in coastal Louisiana amazes me weekly. Such was the case several months ago when a resident of North Carolina contacted me through this Bayou Woman blog.