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Deer of the Year, Part II
Up-and-down temperatures drove some deer hunters crazy, but the weather didn’t seem to affect the big-buck kill. Here are the stories about how some hunters scored big.[…]
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Fond Farewell
We pulled up, looked around and found we had Joshua’s Marina almost to ourselves. “That super high river has this area all fouled up,” Pelayo said. “Look at that — water’s even dirty way up here by the marina.[…]
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The Other White Meat
While riding downriver from the Berwick landing, the thought occurred to me: Why would anyone prefer white meat? […]
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Get in the Game
North and Central Louisiana bass anglers can hardly wait for the bass tournament schedules to come out each year.[…]
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Miserable March?
Miserable March! I call it the bipolar month, the manic-depressive month and the month that just can’t make up its mind. March can’t seem to decide if it wants to be spring or winter, so it teases us with a little of both.[…]
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2009 Turkey Season Forecast
With the 2009 spring turkey season opening next month, what areas of the state might have the best hunting opportunities based upon the annual poult production surveys?[…]
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Saltwater Perch Jerking
The venison fajitas and sheepshead ceviche were the hit of the evening. As usual for the post-Endymion festivities, Doc Fontaine’s Bourbon street bungalow was packed to suffocation.[…]
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Cover: February 2009-Hunting
Echoes of trophy deer and hopes of trophy trout – it’s all in this issue.[…]
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Cover: February 2009-Fishing
Echoes of trophy deer and hopes of trophy trout – it’s all in this issue.[…]
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Turkey Tracks on Small Tracts
Opening day of the 2008 season, I was set-up in my ground blind on a wheat/clover patch I had planted with two sorghum strips during the spring of 2007.[…]
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Good for the goose
Bobby Belaire received a call last February from a rice farmer, and he couldn’t believe the opportunity he was offered.[…]
Bass Fishing
Purple, Green, Gold and Red
The entire fishing world will have its eyes focused on the Red River near Shreveport in February for the 2009 Bassmaster Classic. The best bass fishermen of 2008 will compete for the $1/2-million first prize and plenty more trickle-down money.[…]
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Circuit Riders
Back in the earlier days of American history and due to the lack of ministers and the far distance between churches, some preachers, called circuit riders or saddlebag preachers, would journey long distances on horseback to rural churches to preach.[…]
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Long and Short
There are as many ways to catch crappie as there are names for the tasty fish. Some prefer dipping a cork and shiner in tree tops, some use nothing but jigs in open water, and still others rig up multi-pole “spider rigs” with both jigs and shiners to fish flats and deep holes.[…]
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2008-09 Deer of the Year
Big bucks fell across the state this season as cooler winter weather seemed to really get deer moving. Here are the stories of some of the year’s biggest bucks.40-acre beast.[…]
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3-Step Specks
Nearly 40 years of guiding has taught Capt. Stu Scheer with Cocodrie Inside Charters at least one thing — February is without a doubt the worst month of the year to fish out of Cocodrie.[…]