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Triple Treat
The tripletail, also called the buoy bass, blackfish, chobie or sunfish, derives its name because the oversized dorsal and anal fins sweep back toward the tail to give the fish a three-tailed look.[…]
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Ballistic Bay Bream
Boats were stacked up in the protected bay, anglers in each one diligently watching corks for any sign that a fish had swallowed their baits.[…]
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Ouachita Whiskerfish
There’s got to be a reason why catfish have the word cat in their name. I think it may have something to do with what they are willing to eat. […]
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Mixed Box at Myrtle Grove
We’d just planed out after slowing down to pass a boat fishing near a bayou juncture when Pelayo jerked back on the throttle.No warning this time, and I was bashed headlong into the console.[…]
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Gulf Habitats Part II
The eight habitat types of special importance are marshes, seagrasses, mangroves, oyster reefs, live/hard bottoms, artificial structures, coral reefs, and sargassum. Each will be discussed in more detail.[…]
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Weather or Not
Many centuries ago, when Houmas Indians needed precipitation to water crops, their leaders would get together at night around a fire and join in a rain dance. Capt. Bryce Michel can relate.[…]
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Changing Faces
Caney is a different lake than it was in the early 1990s, when it was the hottest bass impoundment in the South. But it still holds plenty more lunkers than the average Louisiana lake.Like a pubescent teenager, 5,000-acre Caney Lake in Jackson Parish went through some changes a few years ago.[…]
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Chitto Chitto, Bang
“Son, you gotta be there shootin’ when the ducks are flyin’!” I can hear those 40-something-year-old words as if they were uttered just last season.[…]
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Blind Luck
The ride to Venice was both eye-opening and heart-breaking.It was my first trip down the Louisiana peninsula since the eye of Katrina came ashore and ravaged that fragile finger of land.[…]
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Lost & Found
Capt. Mike Guidry stepped from his truck and slid a crisp five-dollar bill into the slot of the honor box at Bason’s Marina. Seventy-five-year old Lurey Terrebonne, who operates this quaint launch, waved us on from his front porch.[…]
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Cover: May 2006
Do you struggle on False River? You won’t after reading this issue.[…]
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Cover: May 2006-Saltwater
Don’t fish this season without reading our 2006 Saltwater Blowout.[…]
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Spring Gardene
This is it, my absolute favorite time of year. The days have grown longer and consistently warmer.[…]
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Fish, Fun & Fillets
The fish-cleaning shed at the marina was the happenin’ place that afternoon as Pelayo, Spencer and I walked up to check out the scene.[…]
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Gulf Habitats – Part I
The greatest distance across the Gulf is more than 1,100 miles from west to east. The shortest distance is 500 miles, between the Mississippi River Delta and the northern tip of Mexico’s Yucatan Peninsula.[…]