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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.[…]
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Leeville Trash Haul
It was just another day at Leeville, at least according to guide Chad Billiot. “The wind is always blowing down here,” Billiot said. “The wind today at least allows me to use the trolling motor.[…]
Fishing
Temperature governs fish activity
The first water temperature sensor I saw in a tackle shop was a weighted thermometer on a string that came with a list of fish species and the temperature that each species considered ideal.[…]
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On The Rebound
Clever soldiers who want to avoid work details keep their distance from superiors. “Out of sight, out of mind,” is the order for the troops who like their free time to remain free.[…]
General
Cover: December 2005
ON THE COVER: Winter only increases the options for Bayou State outdoorsman.[…]
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Worth the Wait
Late December can be frustrating — even frightening — for a Louisiana deer hunter. I know because I’ve been there.[…]
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White Christmas
Alligators have absolutely nothing to do with goose hunting. Nonetheless, it was during the commercial alligator season when my co-duck-oholic friend, Shane Wiggins, and I talked about hunting geese during the upcoming season.[…]
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Two shooting stars for sporting clays
The massive 6×6 bull elk strolled regally from the oak grove, walked down the bank and plunged into the water, laying down and caking itself in the cooling mud.
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Marine Electronics
Maps getting incredibly sophisticated
Computer power and memory storage are gaining speed and capacity while losing bulk, and I’m happy to report that these evolutionary steps are impacting the world of marine electronics.[…]
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New products target the budget angler
Dear Santa: I can’t claim to be a good boy this year, since on more than one occasion I tipped my fly with bait shrimp. So instead of asking for a new boat and giant plasma TV, I’ll be happy to settle for a new fly rod or reel.[…]
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Duck Tactics for Bucks
To take an older, mature buck, you need to set up where he least expects you at a time when he least expects to see you. Leave no trail as you go into the woods or exit the woods.[…]
Currents
Benson a train wreck, Blanco can be salvaged
True character is revealed when the fire is turned up. That’s never been more evident than in Louisiana in the weeks, and now months, since Katrina and Rita hit and changed our state forever.[…]
Currents
Restoration options still painful after Katrina, Rita
Jefferson Parish’s emergency preparedness guru, the affable Walter Maestri, says the destruction caused by hurricanes is the rent we pay to live in a place as wonderful as South Louisiana.
He’s right.[…]
General
Cover: November 2005
Every year, trophy bucks come off of public land in Louisiana. Hunters who kill these monstrous animals know how to outthink the other hunters as well as the bucks.
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