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Easy breezy
Spring is on its way. The longer, warmer days are certainly welcomed by kayak anglers, but the wind — not so much.[…]
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Bass Fishing
Gary Yamamoto Custom Baits’ YamaFrog
Christmas came early for one of the most-accomplished professional bass anglers in his era.[…]
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Was the 2014 deer season another good one?
The 2014-15 deer season is history and now it is time to clean up the deer camp, take care of deer stands, wash the ATVs and trucks, measure the racks at the upcoming Sportsman Show and evaluate the deer harvest data to see what is right or wrong with your deer management program.[…]
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Bream basics
This month’s topic comes courtesy of Gerald King, an Alexandria resident who enjoys pursuing those pesky sunfish otherwise known to frequent readers of this column as gobbules. […]
Ask Captain Paul
Getting the correct datum is important
Dear Capt. Paul:
In several of your articles I have read, you mentioned that the GPS coordinates were in NAD 27. I have a Garmin mapping program and in the properties are 11 NAD 27 settings. Would you be referring to NAD 27 Central?[…]
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It’s time to give back
I went through a tournament-fishing phase when I was in my 20s and thought I had outgrown my bream-fishing childhood. I fished the old Greenwell Springs Marine Pro-Am as a no-boater and was a member of Sunshine Bass Club.[…]
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If you knew the gou as I do
The freshwater drum, Aplodinotus grunniens, has to be the most disrespected large freshwater fish in Louisiana and probably the whole United States.[…]
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Crawfish are becoming cool
A funny thing has happened to crawfish: They have crept stealth-like into the national seafood consciousness without anybody really noticing it.[…]
Apex Predator
Apex Predator provides ‘headless’ hog’s head cheese recipe
Many people absolutely love hog’s head cheese, but they have no clue exactly what part of the pig they’re eating.[…]
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Picking the right outfitter
Like a lot of other hunters, my first experiences out west were do-it-yourself (DIY) hunts on public land.[…]
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‘Drop Tine’ and its brother
Many readers of Happy Trails no doubt also read my additional article last month in the January issue of Mississippi Sportsman titled Hinds County Hunter Bags Monster Buck. Well, there is a little more to that story than what you read on those pages.[…]
Bass Fishing
Rapala introduces the Shadow Rap
Combining a horizontal struggle with a vertical fade that mimics a minnow’s final quivering moments, the Rapala Shadow Rap suspending jerkbait triggers bites as predator fish move in for an easy meal.[…]
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February is for fishing and rigging
One of the many blessings of Louisiana fishing is that there are no closed seasons. Great fishing is available any month of the year, but February is ranked by many anglers as 12 out of 12.[…]
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Bomber Saltwater Grade Mullet
Give Theophile Bourgeois a new artificial lure with so much upside to it and he’s as happy as speckled trout and redfish chasing tasty mullet.[…]
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Looking back at 2014, but moving forward into 2015
Well, another year has ended and as Tennessee Ernie Ford sang, “Another day older and deeper in debt.” The hunting version of this song would go, “Another season has ended and the freezer is empty.”[…]
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How to “sea-duce” a predator
The rivers and lakes of Alaska offer the best fly fishing in North America. Its waters teem with steelhead, arctic char, grayling, dolly varden, trophy rainbow and lake trout, and five species of salmon, including the mighty king salmon.[…]