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Cover: September 2013
Now is the time to start planning out your hunting season, and the annual WMA guide is a great tool.[…]
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River Runs Red —Mississippi River fills with redfish
The Mississippi River’s nickname is the Big Muddy. It’s well-earned.[…]
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Pontchartrain Mix-up — Fishing for variety
Sometimes people forget that Lake Pontchartrain is about more than speckled trout.[…]
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Teal down — Teal hunting the Mississippi Delta
The whooping! The high-fiving! Those glowing FACES!
Everyone at Tad Gormley Stadium on Sept. 16, 1964, for the Beatles knows the faces. All Louisianans watching the Alabama-LSU match-up (also known as “da Game of da century”) on Nov. 5, 2011, when overtime ended also know it.[…]
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Sabine Surrender — Sabine River bass fishing tactics
In the corner of his eye, Lake Charles’ Ken Chaumont spied what he was looking for. On a weedy point on the Louisiana side of the Sabine River across from Orange, Texas, balls of “rain shad,” as he called them, were erupting from the water.[…]
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Whole Hog (Part 1) — Why wild hogs should be controlled
The 150-pound boar hit the ground kicking and squealing wildly. Mark Falgoust’s 150-grain .30-06 smashed into the neck, perfectly placed to minimize meat damage.[…]
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Stupid September — Redfish action heats up in Dularge
John Wayne once said, “Life is hard. It’s even harder when you’re stupid.”
Me, I’m tired of being stupid when it comes to fishing in September.[…]
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Eat More Red Meat — How to catch Delacroix’s fall reds
The winds were already blowing when I stepped out of my truck onto the dock by Capt. Ron “Ahab” Broadus’ boat dock down in Delacroix Island.[…]
Bass Fishing
September simplified — Bass fishing without all the complications
As a photographer, I learned a long time ago that it is simple to make images look complicated.[…]
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First in Line — Opening-day dove-hunting strategies
My brother-in-law jockeyed for position along the line of trucks, ATVs and UTVs lining up down a long gravel driveway beside a farm shed in Tensas Parish.[…]
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Firecrackers — Grand Bayou offers some great August chinquapin fishing
As far as clichés go, few are more frequently used than, “Dynamite comes in small packages.”[…]
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Internal Alarm — Catfish go on a feeding frenzy when the Mississippi River begins to fall
Aaron Langlois has an internal alarm clock set by his ancestors through Canada all the way back to France.[…]
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Live limits — Tips for live-bait fishing for trout and redfish
The August morning was warm and sticky. The wisp of the faint breeze only seemed to move the stifling hot air around, giving no real relief.[…]
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Clear-cut foods — Cutovers can be ready-made grocery stores for deer
During the mid-1970s, I was conducting a study concerning the flora of Bienville Parish for my master’s thesis at Northeast Louisiana University (now ULM) when I got a glimpse of my first large timber clear-cut.[…]
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Stump Jumpin’ — Catching bull bream during the heat of summer
OK, it’s August.
It’s hot — really, really hot. Bass have lockjaw. Crappie have disappeared. Catfish have retreated into the deepest holes in the river.[…]
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No Tails Necessary — Redfishing options for Vermilion Bay
Surrounded by boats, raucous gulls and terns dived into the green waters of Vermilion Bay near Weeks Island. And as quickly as lines could be cast, anglers were landing speckled trout.[…]