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Deer Hunting

Rut prep turns deer to natural foods

November 29, 2009 Patrick Kelleher

Every year I am amazed at how a deer seems to know what type of nutrition he needs at certain times of the year. It seems like flipping the light switch off: The deer just stopped eating rice bran and other high-protein feeds the first weekend of November from the Felicianas and north into Mississippi (Interestingly, it seems like the deer near the flooded river and south around Mount Pleasant and Baton Rouge are still eating the bran/protein).[…]

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Thanksgiving Week

November 29, 2009 Guy LeBreton

I took vacation Thanksgiving week to catch up on some chores and, of course, make a few duck hunts! I went out with my son Monday (Nov. 23), and the very high tide from the Saturday storm put water over the transom of my boat.[…]

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Blind's Eye

Opening day good for some

November 24, 2009 Capt. Mike Hermann

Well, I think we lucked out in the coastal marshes this year. Comparing the marsh to last years’ dead zone, I would say we’re way ahead. Last week, as Hurricane Ida nosed its way into the Gulf, I was still celebrating the great hunt that I had been on with Paul and Mike Woods during the youth weekend.[…]

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Deer Hunting

What’s the deal?

November 24, 2009 Patrick Kelleher

Well, after a very good last couple of weeks of October, the deer movement has gone to close to non-existent. My hunting buddies from all over Louisiana and Mississippi and I were having great hunts from Oct.15 through around the first week of November, and all of a sudden it turned off like a light switch.[…]

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How the passion began

November 24, 2009 Guy LeBreton

I am the youngest of four children, and my dad was not a spring chicken when I was born. As a result, most of our quality time at home didn’t involve a ball and glove, it was more like a rake and a wrench.[…]

Blind's Eye

Blind’s Eye

November 24, 2009 Capt. Mike Hermann

Born and raised in St. Bernard Parish, Mike Herrmann Jr. earned a bachelor of science degree in biology from Southeastern Louisiana University after graduating from Chalmette High School.[…]

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Florida bass are different creatures

October 23, 2009 Jerald Horst

Largemouth bass are the most popular freshwater recreational fish in America, in spite of the changing face of the fishery. Gone are the days of a bass fisherman being pictured as a grandfather in a rowboat with a grandson or contemplative pipe-puffing angler patiently casting a clunky wooden topwater plug with his old knuckle-buster.[…]