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Sight fishing for marsh reds
“I really like sight fishing them with topwater hard baits, but you can’t do that while you’re guiding because you’ll wear them,” Lambert said.[…]
Month: August 2017
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Get ready, get set, go for teal! Part 1
Ensure preparation meets opportunity for your teal hunts by working your retriever, cleaning your shotgun and stocking up on supplies.[…]
Bass Fishing
Long, lanky and in-demand
Baseball, watermelon, pool parties — if you’re making a list of summer faves, don’t forget that big worm. See, bass bites can be hard to come by during the dog days of summer, as the big green dudes spend most of their time sulking in deep offshore haunts, or in the shadows of docks or large trees.[…]
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Cover: August 2017
Mallory O’Brien snared this nice red snapper on a recent trip out of Fourchon during the 2017 extended federal season in the Gulf of Mexico, which is scheduled to close on Labor Day, Sept. 4.[…]
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The easiest limit?
The phone rang.
“Dude, what are you doing tomorrow?”
“Hey, Sammy. What’s up? I dunno, I’ve gotta…”[…]
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Be ready for field repairs
You can do several things to prepare for most bow issues you will encounter in the field, possibly saving your hunt in the process.[…]
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Snapper Snafu no More!
From now until Labor Day, snapper season is a go! More specifically, you can only legally possess fish on Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays, but hey, that’s better than the three-day excuse for a season earlier this year.[…]
Bass Fishing
Night moves – Night Fishing primer
Why fish at night ?It’s easy to predict one answer—It’s not so blamed hot! Avoid the heat and traffic and bust bigger bass in the process.[…]
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Is your Buck Management Program working?
Managing the buck harvest has become the norm for most deer programs these days.[…]
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Poppin’ Bugs for Bream
Todd Schultz throws bugs at fish.
Not real ones; fake ones — foam spiders. But the fish are real.[…]
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Trout in the Throngs
I never could wrap my mind around why people would actually tune in to watch Jerry Springer.[…]
Fishing Tournaments
Video: Mandeville Elite Redfish angler falls from tower, still reels in $65,000 fish
Sometimes things are just meant to be.
Even in ideal sight-fishing conditions, redfish can spook, bend a hook, pop a line, just not eat or find myriad other ways to avoid the landing net.[…]
Bass Fishing
School is in session
It’s shaping up to be a different kind of August for bassin’ on Toledo Bend.[…]
Inshore Fishing
Search crews looking for possible missing boaters in Lake Pontchartrain
Search crews are currently looking for possible missing anglers after a 12-foot flat boat was discovered overturned Tuesday morning near the Highway 11 bridge in Lake Pontchartrain.[…]
Inshore Fishing
Pierre Part angler reels in Leeville leopard red
If the International Grand Isle Tarpon rodeo had a category for most spots on a redfish, Sally Chapman Mabile likely would have been the 2017 winner in a landslide.[…]
News Breaker
Potential new No. 1 Warsaw grouper caught during Grand Isle rodeo
You might say Dr. J.J. Tabor has become somewhat of a giant grouper specialist — and he just beat his own record Friday when he reeled in a massive 383-pounder during the International Grand Isle Tarpon Rodeo that once certified will likely became the state’s new No. 1-ranked Warsaw.[…]