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Claiborne Conundrum
There are plenty voices rising above North Louisiana suggesting that Lake Claiborne, a 6,400-acre impoundment 25 miles northwest of Ruston, has become an enigma — a mystery wrapped in a riddle.[…]
Statewide LA
Fishing
Upgrade your electronics, how and why?
One thing remains constant with marine electronics: When you buy any unit, the very next year you will be able to buy a model with more features and better performance for the same money, or a model with the same features and performance for considerably less.[…]
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Going Coastal
Has there ever been a better match-up than the rabbit and the beagle? Not Godzilla versus King Kong. Not Ali versus Frazier.[…]
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Rare Jewels
While deer hunting out of a tree stand last year, I learned the productivity for pondering the deep mysteries of life when you’re high above the earth, close to God and free to meditate away from ringing telephones, loud music and people with nothing to do but interrupt your work.[…]
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Reds on the Rocks
I hope it’s going to be cold, with a good stiff wind blowing from the northwest,” Papa Joe Bush said, about the fishing trip I planned. […]
Fishing
Louisiana Sportsman TV Debuts
A year ago, Louisiana Sportsman joined forces with GeauxFish TV to bring you the very best the magazine has to offer through the cable connection in the back of your television.[…]
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Treasure of Tensas Parish
Like all oxbow lakes, Lake Bruin was once an actual river channel. In this case, it was the Mississippi River channel.[…]
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Cover: January 2006
It’s been a banner year in the Louisiana outdoors this fall and winter. That great action will continue this month.[…]
Columns
Antlers & Beards
I was programmed as a hunter from the start, and the start for me has been some time ago.[…]
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Miss. expands list of primitive weapons
One of my all-time favorite movies is “Quigley Down Under.”[…]
Ask Captain Paul
GPS makes woods hunting easier
Dear Capt. Paul:
I purchased a handheld Garmin GPS III quite a few years back.[…]
Currents
MIA: Where have all the duck experts gone?
Louisianasportsman.com is missing something this year.
An entire group of people who have dominated the posting board on our magazine’s website the last few winters have mysteriously disappeared.Where they have gone, no one can tell.[…]
Columns
Need pointers? Make a short drive
According to a recent article in USA Today, for the first time in many years, the number of fishing licenses sold in America is back on the rise.[…]
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Hopedale Springs Eternal
The ride through St. Bernard Parish is still depressing, even all these months after the hurricane did its damage. My heart aches every time I drive through.[…]
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Late Can Be Great
In a flooded pasture in northern Catahoula Parish, Dan Chason watched from the blind as a flight of six birds breezed in from the north. The ducks flapped in over the tops of the pine trees, banked into a light wind and seemed to lock in on the spread of decoys that Chason had conspicuously placed several days earlier.[…]
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New Years’s Fireworks
I think the first time I ever noticed the abundance of doves during winter, I was duck hunting in the flooded rice fields of Northeast Louisiana. Adjacent to our waterhole was a dry field where row crops had grown earlier.[…]