Fishing
Wake Fishing’s Soft Spoon
Wake Fishing’s Soft Spoon lure produces strikes both on the sink and during the retrieve.[…]
Year: 2013
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Have paddle, will travel — Kayak your way to more fish
You’ve likely noticed that there is a surge in kayak fishing.[…]
Bass Fishing
Heart Attack — How to get heart-stopping strikes from Lake Larto bass
Slap-pow!
No matter how ready you think you are, a smashing attack on a topwater plug by an aggressive springtime largemouth bass will make your heart stop.
Guaranteed.[…]
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Two Trees Trout – How to catch boatloads of Hopedale specks even after a front blows through
Hard late-April cold fronts are about as common as honest politicians.[…]
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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.[…]
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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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.[…]
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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.[…]
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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.[…]