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Defining Lake Catahoula
Defining Catahoula is difficult. Perhaps it is easier to define what it is not.[…]
Month: December 2012
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Cover: December 2012
Collin Merritt killed this huge buck after trying 17 times to intercept it.[…]
Ask Captain Paul
Yellowfin hotspots
Dear Capt. Paul,
Can you give me the GPS locations of the Blind Faith and Thunder Hawk rigs and any other coordinates you may have for areas to fish yellows out there?
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Columns
Don’t knock whitey
There are lots of reasons to fish. Some fish for food. Others fish strictly for the pull. For those who love the fight, but could care less about the table qualities of their catch, the Good Lord put jack crevalle’s on earth.[…]
Columns
Louisiana’s three-buck limit was the right call
OK, so I’m a meat hunter at heart. After more than 20 years of deer hunting and who knows how many deer on the ground, I still just love to squeeze the trigger and watch a deer do the death jump.[…]
Deer Hunting
Feeding quality whitetails critical to quality deer management
In Dugas’ opinion, food for quality whitetails has to be distributed throughout the entire property 12 months out of the year.[…]
Deer Hunting
Shoot does for better deer management
For a couple of reasons, Roland Dugas Jr., his family and guests take does during mid-October through mid-December.[…]
Deer Hunting
You’ve got to let deer grow
According to Dugas, once hunters have decided just what is possible on their lands of choice for quality deer management — they then have to make a decision on what can be harvested.[…]
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Chuck Buckley: The man
Martin Close III’s father Martin Jr. often good-naturedly called his friend Chuck Buckley an “unnaturalized citizen” of Alexandria.[…]
Deer Hunting
About Tensas River NWR
Tensas River National Wildlife Refuge was established in 1980 with the aim of saving and preserving “one of the largest privately owned tracts of bottomland hardwoods remaining in the Mississippi Delta.”[…]
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Wilkerson’s Wonderland — Myrtle Grove’s Wilkerson Canal offers great redfishing options
Maybe you’ve thought of Myrtle Grove as a mere blip in the road, a tiny hamlet somewhere between Ironton and West Pointe a la Hache, a place you whiz by on your way to more notable destinations, such as Buras, Empire and Venice.
But it’s time to think again.
Certainly, many old timers remember Myrtle Grove as an outstanding wintertime bank-fishing destination, where you could pay a small fee and pull your car or truck up near the edge of Wilkerson Canal and fish for trout and redfish.
It was well known for producing excellent catches of specks and reds in the most inclement weather. It actually seemed that the colder and more bitter the winter weather was, the better your chances of catching fish.[…]
Inshore Fishing
Fly-fishing a great Wilkerson Canal redfish option
Capt. Dave Marino’s other passion is to fish the same areas with a fly rod.[…]
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Balancing Act
We used to say at the deer camp not to shoot the does, now it’s don’t shoot the bucks. My how things have changed![…]
Deer Hunting
How natural mortality figures into deer management
It is a given that deer are going to die annually on your property due to factors other than legal deer hunting.[…]
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Second Split Stand-off — Move stands to see more late-season deer
Da Saints had just stomped Da Falcons in Da Dome. Da Tigers were scheduled to stomp Bama at the championship the following week. And a perfectly-timed (for hunting) holiday cold-front was barreling through.
So spirits were soaring high at Da Camp as we converged the day after Christmas, with Da owners Eddie and Artie arriving elegantly late, as usual.
Exactly which one of Dem owned and ran the deer-club had never been precisely nailed down. Artie’s uncle more or less “founded” Da Lease back around the time “Bum” Phillips resigned as Saint’s coach in a huff.[…]
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Family matters — Quality deer management is a family matter on this land
Mark Huvall had seen a huge deer several times over the past few years, and now the buck was walking right into his lap.[…]