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Blue-Collar Cats
“Come on, come on, don’t play with it. Yeah baby,” Christine whooped.Swinging my seat around to watch the action, I was just in time to see her give a non-lady-like, lip-ripping yank.[…]
Freshwater Fishing
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Basin Bream Bash
Gabby was never much of a fisherman. Oh, sure, she’d go out with the family when we would fish, but just so she could feel the wind in her hair as we ran the boat from one spot to another.[…]
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Ain’t nothin like the almost-real thing
Crappie. White Perch. Sac-a-lait. Call them whatever you want, but in the Cormier household, we call them “dinner.” Nothing brings everyone to the table faster than a fresh-fried batch of these tasty critters.
For that reason, anytime I’m on the water and fishing sac-a-lait, I practice a different form of catch-and-release. I catch the sac-a-lait, then release them into my ice box.[…]
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Blind Luck
The anglers shivered as the boat came off plane, evidence that leading edge of a cold front working its way through the state had reached Blind River.[…]
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Hopping the Tops
The promise of numbers of crappie rang in my head as I watched Garrett napping across the seats of the big Bass Cat.[…]
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Cover: July 2004
If you cut your buzzbait off as soon as the sun gets above the trees, you don’t know what you’re missing.[…]
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Jugheads
Catfishing is one of Louisiana’s most popular pastimes. For generations, we have pursued Mr. Whiskers with traps, nets, yo-yos, rod and reel, and old-fashioned cane pole. Today, more and more fishermen are trying an old, but relatively unknown, method — jugging.[…]
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Child’s Play
Well, let’s try this again,” I said as Clay pushed the boat out from the muddy Dugdemona river bank. This was the second time in a week that my cousin Clay Scoggin, his son Jake and I had come here to participate in a North Louisiana springtime ritual: yo-yo fishing.[…]
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Black Crappie
Bigger is better, right?
Not in Capt. Bryce Michel’s estimation.[…]
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Pop…Pop…Sploosh!
Allow me to get this disclaimer out of the way very quickly:[…]
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Crappie, specks have much in common
Patrick McManus, author and long-time columnist for Outdoor Life and Field & Stream magazines, once observed that the two best times to fish are “when it’s rainin’ and when it ain’t.”[…]
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Carp — it’s what’s for dinner?
Fly fishers will find any means necessary to amuse themselves on the water. If it has fins, it’s fair game.[…]
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Southern Sac-A-Lait
Louisiana has its great and storied winter sac-a-lait fishing holes such as Saline-Larto and the Chicken Coop at Toledo Bend.[…]
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Pushepatapa Pumpkinseeds
Pushepatapa Creek has been designated a wild and scenic river by the state of Louisiana. I now know why. The first time its cool, clear water swirled around my feet, I found that I had entered a completely different world.[…]
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Pit Stops
Although he was under near-constant investigation for misappropriation of state funds, Huey P. Long did use some of that money like it was meant to be used by paving nearly 3,000 miles of roads and giving free books to students throughout the state.[…]
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Red & White
It was a picture-perfect day as I motored into Red River. A series of weather systems had screwed up every outing I had tried recently, but now it seemed that weather and circumstances were finally going my way. […]