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Always Faithful
St. Bernard’s Bayou Bienvenue has long provided access to a vast fishing area favored by many local anglers.[…]
Statewide LA
Currents
Public fishing options get more limited
The dominoes are starting to fall. Regular readers of this magazine know that Louisiana Sportsman for years has covered the issue of the privatization of the public’s tidal and flowing waters.[…]
Bass Fishing
Bass in the Box
Momma always said, “Big things come in small packages.” But I don’t think Momma had fishing in mind when she was referring to the package.[…]
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Cover: April 2006
The Wax Lake area is like a gift to Louisiana’s bass anglers.[…]
Bass Fishing
Red River Right for Early Spawn
Bass typically spawn later in rivers than they do in lakes because of high, spring water levels that look more like a Yoo-hoo than water.[…]
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Ditch Digger
The wind whipped across Toledo Bend the day after a front passed, and Joe Joslin wasn’t look forward to running north from his camp to the relative protection of Six Mile Creek.[…]
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Plucky Pontchartrain
The first thing that stood out to me was just how clear the water was. I mean, this was Lake Pontchartrain — post Katrina.[…]
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Cover: March 2006
Hear that? That’s the sound of millions of bass moving to the beds.[…]
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Sportsman Survivor
Time travel is a scary proposition.
For one thing, you never know if the portal you slide down is two ways. I mean, really, when you’re vaporized from one era and reconstructed in another, is there any guarantee you’ll be able to get back to where you started?[…]
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A Winn is a Winn
With over 600,000 acres, Louisiana’s Kisatchie National Forest can seem an overwhelming place to find a turkey, much less to end a hunt successfully.[…]
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Compliments of Concordia
Jody Perrault and Travis Brown struggled to bring their sack of bass to the scales at the conclusion of the Bass Busters Team Trail kick-off tournament at Lake Concordia last February.[…]
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Turkey Season Primer
I was in my sixth decade of life before I was even remotely interested in spring turkey hunting.[…]
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The Great Bait Debate
Those fish aren’t gonna hit that plastic,” my fishing buddy said emphatically more than a decade ago.[…]
Columns
Apocalyptic angst? Relax, it’s Miller time
One of my best trips of last season was prophesized by the Bible.[…]
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Stevens combines performance, value
Carlos is becoming an optics snob.
“Didja see what they put on that rifle? That cheap scope? Can you believe that?”[…]
Fishing
How many fish-finder pixels is enough?
I recently saw an exchange between fishermen on the Internet. One wanted to know if 500 watts was enough power for someone who fishes water no deeper than 30 feet.[…]