The Sporting Life

A Louisiana craftsman keeps a Cajun tradition afloat

Deep in Louisiana duck country, a hunting lodge marries a conservation ethic with creature comforts

Explore one of the South’s ultimate duck hunting destinations

Bring your flies, a pole, and a map

Secrets to betting on the greatest horse race of them all

Learn to do it the Atchafalaya Basin way

The tricks to becoming a good shot

For twelve days each September, racing’s elite arrive in Lexington to bid on yearling Thoroughbreds

An inside look at this prestigious horse sale in Lexington, Kentucky

Meet Bill Green––huntsman, chef, and master of the hounds

After a lifetime in the field, a bad eye forced the author to make a difficult decision: give up the sport he loves or learn to shoot lefty

How Lisa Tomlin turned a childhood obsession with drawing animals into a career as one of the country’s finest gun engravers

An 
innovative plan to restore wild quail populations throughout the South

Hooking a monstrous arapaima in the wilds of southern Guyana is fly fishing’s next great challenge and ecotourism’s new frontier

For our April/May 2012 story on Ted Juracsik (The Man Who Changed Fly Fishing Forever), we sent Los Angeles-based photographer Joe Pugliese to south Florida to photograph Juracsik, his reels, and his favorite fishing spots. Here is his story: I was traveling for other shoots right up to the day before I flew to Florida […]

Take a closer look at Ted Juracsik, his work, and fly fishing in Florida

A newbie goes into the spring woods after a turkey and finds out what it means to take a bird

How a refugee from Hungary invented a reel that would tame the biggest, baddest fish in the sea

Members of the Middleton Hunting Club take to the woods in a century-old ritual

A late-night adventure in Louisiana gives the phrase a whole new meaning