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Pearly Gates
Let’s face it — hunting ducks on public land can be about as much fun as sliding down a razor blade into a pool full of rubbing alcohol.[…]
Year: 2006
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Mellow Yellow
Frigid cold fronts and blustery north winds signal that it’s time to head to one of the most famous Louisiana wintertime trout hotspots — Yellow Cotton Bay in Buras.[…]
Fishing
Even you can do swap-and-test technique
There are three places to look when a fish finder or GPS unit stops working properly. The problem can be in the display unit, in the transducer (for a fish finder) or GPS antenna module (for a GPS unit), or it can be in the power wiring for either type of unit.[…]
Freshwater Fishing
Cold-water crappie bite red hot at Bistineau
It’s the time of year that crappie anglers dream about. Cold water has pushed the fish into deep holes all across Louisiana, where they can be sacked up by the hundreds, but there probably isn’t a hotter crappie bite going right now than the one at Lake Bistineau in the northwest corner of the state.[…]
Bass Fishing
King of the Lake
A cold front had pushed through the night before, and the sun threw light over cypress trees and turned the skies from black to burnt orange to sapphire blue. Donaldsonville angler Richard Sherman already was on the water, working a stretch of bank in search for his first bite.[…]
Ask Captain Paul
Where are Venice’s spillways?
Dear Capt. Paul:
Can you point me to the spillways south of Venice? I have heard of the First and Second spillways. How far south of Venice are they? Which pass are they in?[…]
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Hot and Cold
The cold air cut through me like a Ginsu as I steered my flats boat out of Delacroix’s Bayou Gentilly and into Little Lake.Thick, gray clouds capped the atmosphere, diffusing the low-hanging sun and blanketing in the chill.[…]
Bass Fishing
Rodemacher’s Resurrection
I kept my eye on Porter Trimble’s water temperature gauge as he maneuvered his big Nitro 929 bass boat across the surface of CLECO Lake. The air temperature was in the lower 60s, and there had been enough cold nights to drop the water temperature into the 50s.[…]
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Inverse Relationship
I remember a funny song Jerry Reed used to sing titled “When you’re hot, you’re hot…”[…]
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Rack-Filled and Rugged
Robert Duncan grew up hunting the piney woods of Washington Parish. He can vividly recall traipsing through the woods around Ben’s Creek west of Bogalusa.
However, his weren’t the only set of feet slogging through the creek bottom.[…]
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Limits in Lafourche
The speed limit through Galliano is 30 m.p.h., so it’s easy to recognize sites of obvious local significance. But even in a 55-m.p.h. zone, I would have spotted and stopped for the “Chene au Cowan.”[…]
Waterfowl & Duck Hunting
West zone duck opener offers hope
The beginning of the 2006-2007 duck season got off to an incredible start in the west zone on Nov. 11.[…]
Inshore Fishing
Trout bite around MRGO ‘goofy good’
If the fishing on either side of the MRGO has ever been better than it is right now, Capt. Barry Brechtel with Big Fish Charters (504-610-6914) doesn’t remember it.[…]
Bass Fishing
Poor conditions can’t slow CLECO bite
Wouldn’t it be something if there were a lake that offered near perfect bass fishing conditions during the winter? It would attract anglers like San Diego attracts residents.[…]
Deer Hunting
Deer tag harvest cards now available on-line
The new deer tag harvest cards for the 2006-07 deer hunting season can now be downloaded and printed from the Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries Web site.[…]
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Cover: November 2006
Hunt smart, and you’ll let other hunters push public-land deer to you.[…]