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Anglers turning to freshwater areas
Dear Capt. Paul,
Where is the Orange Grove out of Bayou Black?[…]
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Louisiana has its share of Kansas redfish
Last year I attended a fly fishing festival where one of the seminars was entitled “Carp on the Fly.” Just out of curiosity, I decided to check it out.[…]
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Flounder aren’t just for ladies
On a fishing trip last spring, one of the fishermen in a boat with me commented that he sure hoped we would catch some flounder because his wife had asked him specifically to bring some home.[…]
Bass Fishing
July is Basin bass time
Generally, by July, the Mississippi River will have started falling, which causes the water in the Atchafalaya River to begin falling.[…]
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Random thoughts on BP’s oil spill
I wouldn’t think twice about eating a fish, crab, oyster or shrimp harvested from anywhere along Louisiana’s coast right now. The harmful elements of crude oil evaporate quickly.[…]
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PT 709 Slim: a self-defense pistol worthy of the name
David George DeMersseman was 54 years old, an insurance executive and on a road trip. He was sitting in a Waffle House on a major thoroughfare next to an entrance/exit off Interstate 12 in my town, having an early breakfast or a late dinner — the newspapers didn’t specify.[…]
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Still lots for Louisiana boaters to do
I remember looking through some old photographs that my mother had when I found one of my mother and dad sitting in one of dad’s race boats. The third person in the boat was me.[…]
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ItzaBug improvement on Gator Pup
The 4-inch ItzaBug by Stanley Lures just might represent the pinnacle of the creative artificial lure manufacturing prowess of John Dean.[…]
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Red is certainly not dead
This month, I’ll return to the Red River at Shreveport to fish for bass. Generally in June, the river begins to go down and stabilize, and the bass start their summertime pattern.[…]
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The secret to fishing that father knows best
My dad. Everything he does in the outdoors — from gardening to setting crawfish traps — he does with a passion few men have. And excels at it.[…]
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Red snapper are not homebodies
It is hard to believe that the recreational season for Gulf of Mexico red snapper has shrunk to less than two months this year.[…]
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Horseshoe Reef a summer hotspot
Dear Capt. Paul:
Do you have information and GPS coordinates for the Horseshoe Reef in the Lake Pelto area?[…]
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Senator thinks La. should get no oil cash
“I have always found the thought of taking resources from the OCS … and dedicating the revenue to just a handful of states to be unfair.” — Sen. Jeff Bingaman (D-N.M.)[…]
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Redfish love Sebile’s Flatt Shad
A Lake Charles outdoorsman, professional redfish fisherman and television fishing show host saw first-hand recently the painstaking effort one of the world’s leading artificial lure designers puts into making an artificial lure like the Flatt Shad.[…]
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Training protocol: Teaching a woman to shoot
Here’s a truth we’ve learned through hundreds of gun-training classes and thousands of students — call it the Hutchinson Dictum: Most guys buy the gun they want for their wife or girlfriend.[…]
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Bream secrets they don’t want you to know
Several recent late-night tying sessions have exposed me to the countless television infomercials that appear after midnight.[…]