Inshore Fishing
Lafitte improving after cold front
Captain Mike Daigle with Cast It Charters (985-331-8548) was smoking the redfish right before the last front blew through coastal Louisiana.[…]
Month: October 2008
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Cover: November 2008
North Louisiana has a gem of a WMA that puts plenty meat in freezers year after year.[…]
Fishing
Don’t forget the basics of ownership
I don’t think I will ever forget one day when my dad and I were working behind the parts counter at our dealership, Big M Marine. […]
Ask Captain Paul
Are Google coordinates accurate?
Dear Capt. Paul:
I like to find potential spots on Google Earth. I have heard that the coordinates from Google Earth can be off a good bit from what a GPS unit says if you are not using the right datum.Can you tell me what datum I should when finding spots on Google Earth?[…]
Columns
Don’t be dog-matic! Go with spoons
As we reach the climax of a bizarre election year, what could be more bizarre than a website dedicated to having dogs vote? Thedogvote.com believes that “our nation lies in their paws.”[…]
Bass Fishing
True or False? Definitely go with False
This month, my choice of lakes for catching numbers of nice-sized bass will be False River in Pointe Coupee Parish near New Roads.[…]
Columns
Menhaden are key link in food chain
Menhaden, usually called pogies in Louisiana, are certainly not a game fish. They never bite a hook, even by accident.[…]
Fishing
Sonar operation is really pretty basic
Fish finders change their appearance and add new features each year, but the principles of sonar haven’t changed since World War II. […]
Columns
This small dog barks and bites
There are many ways to determine you have arrived. […]
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Hurricane Buffet
Eddie stormed into Doc Fontaine’s Venice houseboat, slammed the door and hurled his camo duffel bag in the corner.[…]
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Duck Walk
I think I would have made a great colonist. Of course, I might not have liked actually being one back in the 1700s, but I think I could have at least held my own for a couple of days.[…]
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Getting Bigger
At a recent deer-scoring event at Cabela’s in Gonzales, Joshua Babin of Prairieville brought in a buck that his grandfather killed on Thistlethwaite WMA in 1972.[…]
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Chief Ouachita
Troy Hibbard desired to be duck hunting the morning of Dec. 20, 1997, but he couldn’t put incredible deer sign he had found on the edge of Ouachita Wildlife Management Area out of his mind.[…]
Bass Fishing
Spin Doctor
Figuring he had it tied on to fool anybody who happened to be sneaking around in his camouflaged Triton aluminum boat, I half expected Eddie Halbrook to clip off the blue/white tail-spinner that was tied to the line on the rod that he handed to me.[…]
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Lafitte’s Treasure
Redfish are tearing up spoons in Lake Salvador,” the voice said on the other end of the phone. The inflection in the voice made it both a statement and an implied question.[…]
Bass Fishing
Tidal Tactics
A half dozen great egrets and as many blue herons were scattered along the edge of a small cove, and every five minutes or so, they would take a few steps back.[…]