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Air Raid
It’s a 35-minute boat ride from Lafitte to Grand Gosier Island.
That is, of course, if your boat has wings.[…]
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Retro Port Sulphur
Zak’s cork hit a swell right under the hovering laughing gulls and vanished.
“A no-sooner, as you guys call it!” he beamed while cranking away and looking around with a lunatic leer.[…]
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The Fall Guy
“Déjà vu all over again.” That’s what former New York Yankees catching great Yogi Berra called it, and I got a taste of it last hunting season.[…]
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To Shoot or Not To Shoot
Most deer hunters in Louisiana by now should know something about Quality Deer Management (QDM). It has been preached not only in this state but throughout the Southeast for the past 20 years.[…]
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The Sucker Punch
Of the 14 snapper species in the Gulf of Mexico, the mangrove snapper has the reputation for being the wariest. Perhaps smartest is a better word.[…]
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North Louisiana angler has great success at Grand Isle
Speckled trout or redfish, live baits or plastics, rising tide or falling tide. Every month Louisiana Sportsman has several articles discussing the myriad details of saltwater fishing.[…]
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The Spillway Effect
Unless you are strictly a freshwater angler, the opening of the Bonnet Carre’ Spillway has definitely altered your fishing plans for the summer. On May 9, the Corps of Engineers began opening the bays of the spillway to divert some of the rising river water into Lake Pontchartrain, and from there into the Gulf.[…]
Alligator
We’re all ‘Swamp People’
When out-of-state people think about Louisiana, they think, “Alligators.” Louisiana has long had a reputation for alligators and alligator hunting.[…]
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Cover: July 2011
Saltwater fishing is off the charts right now across the coast.[…]
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Cover: July 2011-Freshwater
Toledo Bend angler Joe Joslin is a big fan of swimbaits.[…]
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Take Home Angler: Dr. Sam Field
Things have changed an awful lot in Cocodrie since Dr. Sam Field started fishing down there in the 1970s. What used to be a rustic camp destination has turned into a refined resort of sorts.[…]
Bass Fishing
Work that Wiggle
About the only way to make a soft-body swimbait more user-friendly would be teaching it to tie its own knot. Short of that, just sling one out, wind it back and note how this hunk of molded plastic excels at doing the work for you.[…]
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Mack Attack
A drip of sweat somehow traveled along the Neanderthalic eyebrow-hidden bumps of my forehead and passed down the lens of my cheater eyeglasses.[…]
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Chumming the Shallows
“It’s a bird!” gasped Eddie while pointing up. “No! It’s a plane! No! It’s a PIG!”[…]
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Burn Hack!
Kids need action to stay interested.
Put them in a baseball position where they don’t get many balls hit to them, and they’ll start chasing grasshoppers.[…]
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High On The Hogs
The concept of fair chase is a hallmark tenet of hunters around the globe. Basically, it means that hunters give the game they target a fair and fighting chance to outwit the hunter and leave him hungry for another chess match in the field.[…]