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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.[…]
Ask Captain Paul
Horseshoe Reef a summer hotspot
Dear Capt. Paul:
Do you have information and GPS coordinates for the Horseshoe Reef in the Lake Pelto area?[…]
Currents
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.[…]
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Are DC alternator chargers worth the money?
I recently received an e-mail from a reader asking if I could help identify which wire is the ignition wire for his 1999 outboard motor. He stated that he was considering hooking up an onboard DC alternator charger.[…]
Ask Captain Paul
What’s left of Breton Island still produces
Dear Capt. Paul:
Where is Breton Island?[…]
Bass Fishing
Rage on the Red River
May’s an excellent month to fish the Red River because the bass have finished their spawn and are starting to move from the bank out to deeper water. But they’re not all the way to the deep places where they tend to hold in the summertime.[…]
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It’s as clear as black and white
In 1993, the Louisiana Legislature picked a state fish. It wasn’t the much-hyped tournament fish, the largemouth bass; it wasn’t any one of the glamorous snapper species; it wasn’t even the beloved speckled trout.[…]
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Don’t like bowfishing? Don’t do it
Just a few years ago, Louisiana Sportsman published a feature story about a hunter whose technique of choice was taking really, really long shots at deer.[…]
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The doctor orders a spring check-up
Wow, what a winter we had! We saw record rainfall totals, cold temperatures, high winds and tides so low that many waterways were reduced to mud flats.[…]
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Spinnerbait, crankbait deliver on D’Arbonne
I enjoy fishing Lake D’Arbonne near West Monroe. During April, some of the bass at D’Arbonne still will be bedding. To catch the most and the biggest bass at D’Arbonne in April, watch for the shad spawn.[…]
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You’re now free to stand up and cast
What do Bigfoot, the alien autopsy at Roswell, Manbearpig and stand-up kayak fishing all have in common?[…]