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Cover: April 2013-Specks
Big stringers of trout await this month across the Louisiana coast, while freshwater options abound for inland anglers.[…]
Month: April 2013
General
Water’s Edge Caddy
The Water’s Edge Caddy from Past Tyme Designs, LLC is a portable carryall when enjoying activities such as fishing, hunting, target shooting and photography.[…]
Fishing
Surface-Mount Chocks
Accon Marine’s Surface-Mount Chocks help keep deck space clutter-free and clear of any hazards by enabling users to fold them down and out of the way when not in use.[…]
Bass Fishing
Cover: April 2013-Bass
Big stringers of trout await this month across the Louisiana coast, while freshwater options abound for inland anglers.[…]
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Snapper secrets
It’s been years since we’ve been able to head out to the rigs in the spring and bring home red snapper, but that all changes this year.[…]
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4 keys to 4-strokes — Maintenance tips for four-stroke outboard engines
The advent of the four-stroke outboard has changed a lot about boating. No more oil-and-gas mixtures, less pollution, better economy overall and generally lower maintenance.[…]
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Weather Proof — Why Catfish Lake should be on your trout-fishing list
Lots of folks launch at the Oak Ridge Park boat ramp in Golden Meadow during April. A great percentage of them aspire to fish East Timbalier. […]
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Waist Deep — Wade-fishing tips to catch more Big Lake trout
I could tell wade-fishing turns Guy Stansel on by the way he jumped into the water. While his buddy Mark Jeanes quietly stepped down the transom ladder into Calcasieu Lake, Stansel leapt in with reckless abandon.[…]
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Slot Red Roundup — Tips to win redfish tournaments
Kaplan’s Skip Floyd and his wife Tanya had traveled east by boat all the way from Bridge City, Texas, to the Lambert weir on southern Lake Calcasieu.[…]
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Retro-fitting — Panfishing in ‘Orlandia’ is a great diversion
Artie blew up at the very mention of the place.
“Man don’t even say the word!” he snarled. “Brings back too many memories! Now it’s all gone!”[…]
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Late-season lingo — Learn how to fool wary turkeys
Veteran turkey hunter Randy Stafford remembers well one late-season hunt for a very wizened longbeard. “This old gobbler would not roost in the same place two days in a row,” the 65-year-old president of the Louisiana Chapter of the National Wild Turkey Federation said.[…]
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Flat Out — How to fill the boat with Flat Lake chinquapin
It’s easy. It’s fun. It can be “flat-tastic!” Ask anyone in the tri-city area of Morgan City, Berwick and Patterson where is the best place to fish redear sunfish, fondly referred around these parts as chinquapins, and the first place they’ll tell you is Flat Lake.[…]
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Un-train-ed — Fishing guides share their Lake Pontartrain Trestle tactics
Many of the Trestles trout that ended their day in an icy coffin had a bat ray to thank.[…]
Columns
Time to move north?
Last July I wrote about my hope for the Louisiana coast, which seems to be melting away like so much candle wax, because of projects funded by the Coastal Wetlands Planning, Protection and Restoration Act.[…]
Events & Announcements
Price Lake Road on Rockefeller Wildlife Refuge to close April 1st 2013 until further notice
Visitors to Rockefeller Wildlife Refuge should be advised that a main access road top the western end of the refuge, Price Lake Road, will be closed from April 1, 2013 until further notice, the LDWF said.
Vehicular access to fishing, crabbing and shrimping areas along the road will be temporarily blocked due to the road closure.[…]
Inshore Fishing
Sabine Lake monster trout is pending No. 8 speck in state record books
It has been nine years since an angler has taken a speckled trout that broke into Louisiana’s top 10 list, but on March 23 speckled trout history happened again when what appears to be the eighth largest trout ever taken in the state was landed on Sabine Lake.[…]