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LaLoutre Swing and Drift
“Why don’t you and your brother come fishing with us Monday?” the voice on the phone said. “Monday is New Year’s Eve, and isn’t it supposed to be cold?” I asked.[…]
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Bass Fishing
Cover: February 2008
Bass pro Jason Pittman caught this lunker on the Tchefuncte River, but our team of experts picked other water bodies as the most likely to deliver trophies this spring.[…]
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Mailbox Bass
Have you ever seen one of those largemouth-bass mailboxes that some people have in front of their houses? Imagine taking one of those boxes and putting a couple treble hooks on the bottom of it.[…]
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Cover: January 2008-Hunting
By this point in the season, the deer know you’re there. Wise hunters use certain techniques to overcome heavy hunting pressure.[…]
Bass Fishing
Designer Bass Fishing
I remember 8th grade like it was yesterday. The only problem is there are a lot of things about 8th grade that I don’t want to remember.[…]
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Hot Redheads and Delta Cakes
Over the years, with each generation, there always seems to be a good-looking redheaded actress that captivates audiences everywhere.[…]
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Cover: January 2008-Fishing
Capt. C.T. Williams knows that winter often offers the absolute best saltwater action of the year.[…]
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Pearl of Plaquemines
Gazing from atop the Empire Bridge in southern Plaquemines Parish, one can see literally thousands of white PVC pipes sticking up from atop oyster beds.[…]
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Bow Wow Bushytails
One advantage I had growing up out on the rural route was an early introduction to hunting. I was blessed with a dad who hunted and who saw the advantages of introducing his two sons to the sport not long after we were out of diapers.[…]
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Stumpy Specks
Capt. C.T. Williams’ web address is thebigfish.net. But during this season of the year, the marshes surrounding his home port of Hopedale deliver not quite exactly what his Internet name implies.[…]
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Small Game in a Big-Game World
Talk to a hunter who belongs to the Baby Boomer generation about his first hunting trip, and odds are it will be about squirrel hunting.[…]
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The Pressure’s On
Russell Scarbrough got off work at 6 p.m., too late to actually do any hunting. But he went ahead and drove to the public tract of land he planned to hunt the next few days and slept in the truck.[…]
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Nooner Ducks
Poor Zach. Maybe I should have warned him. This was the first Louisiana duck hunt for Pelayo’s brother-in-law, and he was dressed like a male model for Cabela’s catalog.[…]
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Duck Central
Do you have a favorite honey hole that you keep hunting because it seems to always hold game? If so, you’re not alone. Most hunters have secret spots that they jealously guard with everything but their lives.[…]
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The Causeway Approach
Tedious. Boring. Congested. Long. Time-consuming. Commuters use all these words and more to describe their daily 24-mile trek across the Lake Pontchartrain Causeway into the Big Easy.[…]
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Calcasieu Cleanser
Most people in Louisiana relate purging with cleaning a sack full of crawfish by making them vomit out impurities before they are dropped into a pot of boiling water.[…]