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From hot to cold — How to fish Chalmette after the Hot Water Canal went cold
For Chalmette-area wintertime anglers, the Hot Water Canal was about as close as you could get to a sure thing.[…]
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Get to the Pointe — Guide’s tips for Pointe a la Hache trout and reds
So another December arrives — a month of endings, to be sure, but also of beginnings.[…]
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Lull Busters — How to kill bucks when they’re laying low
The dog days of summer have nothing on the dog days of December.
Anybody fishing during the dog days of summer knows before launching his boat that tough fishing lies ahead. […]
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Sneaky ducks — How to use a kayak for duck hunting
The hunt didn’t last long. Good hunts never do.
The ducks never had a chance.[…]
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Cover: December 2016
The season is at the halfway point, but there’s still a lot of deer hunting left.[…]
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Cover: November 2016
With the deer season in high gear, it’s time to buckle down and put some meat in the freezer.[…]
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Top Guns — Duck-hunting guides share the secrets to their success
Archer Daniels looked up at the ducks, grabbed the Haydel duck call and blew hard as he could.[…]
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Yak attack — How to fish Prien Lake with a kayak
The three kayaks looked like sleek raiders fanning out into Prien Lake from a friend’s pier near the public launch on the lake’s eastern shore. […]
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Public prospects — Top 5 WMAs for duck hunting
Backlit faintly by the early morning glow, they came as we’d hoped. Silhouettes — large and deliberate, and small and acrobatic — bombarded our spread.[…]
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Cage Rattler — Tips to rattle up a big buck
Teenage boys have a saying they sometimes use to express an understanding that they will put their fraternal friendships ahead of any teenage girls who might try to come between them.[…]
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Delacroix de’ja vu
De’ja vu. We get the expression from the French, and it means “already seen.” It’s the feeling that you’ve been there before, experienced something previously or seen the same thing on some former occasion.[…]
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Blasting Bachman’s — Where to hunt Bachman’s fox squirrels
Artie suddenly put down his basting brush, clapped his hands, and bellowed.
“So who wants squirrel sauce piquante next week for the LSU-Florida tailgate PAAAW-TY?” he howled.[…]
Bass Fishing
Transitional jerks – Jerkbait fishing tactics
Word association games show us our true perceptions by drawing forth gut responses.[…]
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Dark arrows — Top tactics for coastal bowfishing
It wasn’t like shooting fish in a barrel. I thought they would be just kind of sitting there, hovering helplessly in gin-clear water, hypnotized by the boat’s bright lights.[…]
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Close encounters — How to deer hunt with a longbow
A stick and a string — the only things standing between a traditional archery hunter and harvesting a whitetail.[…]
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Bayou boogie — Best WMAs and squirrel-hunting tips
On opening day last year, conditions were favorable for squirrel hunting at Sherburne Wildlife Management Area and the adjacent Atchafalaya National Wildlife Refuge.[…]