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Living (DU)large
Heaven for Brennan Head feels a lot like hell.
When the rest of South Louisiana is perspiring at leisure and debating the feasibility of cooking breakfast on the sidewalk, Head is smiling.[…]
Year: 2005
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Keep Your Powder Dry
I admit I was pumped. The prospect of taking a deer with my muzzleloader on video set pretty well with me.
I was hunting with good friend Luke Lewis on a hunting lease that is adjacent to Jackson-Bienville Wildlife Management Area south of Ruston. Lewis, a wildlife biologist, planned to video me taking a deer on video, and was all set to preserve my special moment for my grandchildren to one day enjoy.
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KISS not just a rock band anymore
I’ll never forget the time one of my 7th-grade classmates totally outwitted our science teacher, who had more degrees than a thermometer.[…]
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Bushytail Baksheesh
The smell of fat, homemade biscuits and Community coffee greeted us as we rolled out of bed.[…]
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Boudreaux Tackles Alaska
There were just too many caribou charging through the valley at once. Hank, 11 years old, had a hard time drawing a bead on a good bull.[…]
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Cover: October 2005
Want to kill a big buck with your muzzleloader? In this issue, we tell you about two public areas that’ll give you better odds than most.[…]
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Mojo Management
For more than 35 years, Mike Centanni didn’t simply hope to kill deer — he expected to.[…]
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Cover: September 2005
COVER: Louisiana Sportsman kicks off the hunting seasons with its forecasts for WMAs, ducks, and the deer rut.[…]
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Way, Way, Way Down There
Many people fish — or at least profess to fish — just for the thrill of feeling the raw piscatorial power throbbing through the line.[…]
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Tarpon in the Triangle
As the morning sun was just starting to glow over the horizon, the Mr. Todd made its way down Tiger Pass. The needle on the vessel’s temperature gauge climbed almost as quickly as the thermometer, reflecting the record 95-degree heat radiating from the nearby marsh.
Capt. Coon Schouest slowed the vessel to check out the situation.[…]
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Slack Busters
Robbie’s face lit up. His eyes bugged. A crazy grin creased his face. He’d just answered the cell phone from the passenger seat as we passed the Greater Macedonian Baptist Church on the way down to Venice.[…]
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Passed Over
Charlie Thomason isn’t a big believer in the anecdotal notions of how the changing of seasons affects fishing.[…]
Events & Announcements
Cross talk can hurt fish-finder images
“When I turn on both my console and bow fish finders, at least one of them goes crazy!” This is the most common fish-finder complaint I hear, and it stems from a lack of understanding of how sonar works.[…]
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Original Bagley Balsa B’s are back
You won’t have to pay $100 for one of the most efficient artificial lures in bass fishing history.[…]
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Form Follows Function
It doesn’t take much to make Bobby Phillips happy. All he really needs is a couple shiners and a few willing white perch.[…]
Currents
President does 180 on Louisiana’s vanishing coast
President Bush has had some sort of epiphany.
It’s obvious. Perhaps he was visited by the ghost of Christmas Future one sleepy August night on Pennsylvania Avenue. Maybe Christmas Future held the hand of the leader of the free world and took his spirit on a midnight stroll through the heart of America’s Wetland.[…]