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Cover: February 2016
If you had to pick one month to turn your attention to crappie, February is it.[…]
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The Dean of Delacroix — This family patriarch still duck hunts the old way
“I was born in 1940. Things were a lot different back when I was growing up as a kid on Delacroix Island. There was no electricity or running water.”
Errol Dennis Sr.[…]
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Duct works — Why duct tape should be in your hunting bag
There are a few items I’ll never leave home without when heading into the woods to deer hunt. Of course, if it’s during the rut, I’ll tote along a grunt call, doe estrous and even rattling horns, in addition to items that are useful all season.[…]
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2015 Shoot-Don’t Shoot — The annual deer-hunting quiz
Deer hunting has gone full circle. In the ’60s, bucks-only hunting was the rule and any legal buck was fair game. No one was going to harass you at the game pole about the size of your deer.[…]
Bass Fishing
Flipping the switch — Pro tips to catch more pre-spawn bass
They want to go. They probably will go; it’s just a matter of when they’ll go.[…]
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Aromatherapy — 33 Point Buck makes hunters invisible to bucks’ noses
Following conventional wisdom about deer hunting and wind direction, Brandon Nettles never would have hunted the buck he did where he did on the opening day of the 2015 Mississippi archery season.[…]
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Cover: January 2016
The 2015-16 deer-hunting season is drawing to a close, but the big boys like this one killed on Loggy Bayou WMA by Jerry Bailey are showing up to play.[…]
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Yellow haze — How to catch Caney Lake’s yellow bass
“Yeow — that’s a big yellow bass,” I thought to myself when I saw the new first-place entry of 2.67 pounds in the official state fish records kept by the Louisiana Outdoor Writers Association.[…]
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Mr. Duck — Hunting tips from duck-hunting addict Mike Carloss
His blind was ridiculously simple.
The hunter was perched on his shell bucket on one end of a poke boat-style pirogue pulled up on the marsh bank under a rattlebox plant.[…]
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Hunt hard, stay young — How to hunt South Louisiana’s deer
“What a joke!” came the yell. “Why do I even bother watching this stuff? Deze guys ain’t hunting — not the way we do it down here in South Louisiana! They’re hunting a different animal on a different planet! Geeesh!” […]
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Reggio milk run – How to catch wintertime speckled trout
According to Merriam-Webster, a “roundup” is a gathering together of people or animals or items. As in a cattle roundup, or a police roundup of suspects.[…]
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The other rut — January is perfect timing for squirrel hunting
The cold month of January marks the beginning of the end of our hunting season. The deer rut is over in many places, ducks have become harder to call in and hunters start thinking about fishing.[…]
Bass Fishing
Travelocity — Target travel lanes for more pre-spawn bass
Bass go where bass want to go, but there’s always a logical reason for why they chose their courses. Seasonality drives major relocation, with water temperature and bait positioning being the major influences.[…]
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Humble holiday — Redfish swarm at that East Cote Blanche Bay hotspot
It was a blasted shame. On one couch in a comatose sugar shock was my son-in-law, staring at the television. In my lounge chair reclining rocker was my oldest son and his wife, both sawing logs sound asleep.[…]
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Biloxi bound — Duck-hunting tips for Biloxi WMA
“Here it’s almost Christmas!” snorted Artie’s brud-in-law Anthony (pronounced: “Ant-Knee.”) “But for us it’s still TEAL season! That’s almost all we been gettin’ — and mostly bluewings to boot!”[…]
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Unabridged trout — How to troll for Lake Pontchartrain trout
“That’s a big trout, Momma. Be careful! Take your time, Momma. Bring him this way.”[…]