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Lafitte’s Hideaway
Generally, March is a warming month. It’s not really winter anymore, at least not here in the deep Gulf South.[…]
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Dollars Unlimited?
O.K., let’s start with the obvious: For the last two seasons, duck hunting in Louisiana has been, at best, disappointing.[…]
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Dog Days
Glenn Leingang has nowhere to go but down. That’s what happens when you achieve the pinnacle of a sport so early in your career.[…]
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Crappie Connection
Fishing is in Mike Megee’s blood, courtesy of a transfusion received years ago while spending time with his father-in-law on the water in his home state of Arkansas.[…]
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Behemoth Bream
Eddie Halbrook turned his nose into the air and started sniffing. He looked like a beagle that just hit a hot trail.[…]
Bass Fishing
Bass Lake Report Card
Considering that successful bass fishermen do their homework before going on the water, how about subjecting the many bass fisheries in Louisiana to academic standards of their own for 2003?[…]
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A Taste of Spring
“You cast that bait right over that reef, and I guarantee a fish,” said Buras fishing guide John L. Taylor, pointing his 7-foot Shimano V-series rod toward a small spit of land near a sun and rain-scrubbed white PVC pipe leaning at a 60-degree angle.[…]
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The Final Count
Deer hunting isn’t really about racks. Well, it isn’t all about antlers.[…]
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Freelined Fins
Louisiana anglers have a reputation — deserved or not — of being on the tail end of technology and finesse techniques in the pursuit of the state’s varied fish population.[…]
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Trout in the Chumlines
An old, Middle-Eastern proverb says, “If Mohammed cannot come to the mountain, then the mountain must come to Mohammed.”[…]
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Coastal Killers
“There’s somebody back there!” Eddie hissed, spraying me with whiskey spittle as he pointed a gloved finger behind the duck blind. “I’ve been hearing them all morning.” His eyes were wild. His lips quivered. “SEE!….. Hear THAT?!”[…]
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Rice-Field Rabbits
The dictionary defines instinct as “a complex, unlearned, adaptive response to some situation or experience.”[…]
Bass Fishing
Trappin’ Trees
Louisiana and the number ranking in a national list, the Saints and the playoffs, boiled crawfish and milk — it doesn’t take a genius to figure out that these things just don’t go together.
Yeah, you may come across a dubious list that has Louisiana ranked at the top of some bad-news category. The Saints may even make the playoffs a couple of times every 30 years or so, and you may see a child having to drink milk while eating boiled crawfish. But other than that, never the two shall meet.
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Arriba Sac-a-lait
When you see hundreds of tow vehicles this month in a parking lot at Spanish Lake, it can only mean one thing.[…]
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Stealth Bombers
The sky was gray with low, mid-winter clouds, but the speckled trout action quickly made us forget the raw morning chill.[…]
Bass Fishing
Clearance Sale
These young guns coming up on the competitive bass fishing scene have so much technology and information at their fingertips.[…]