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2014 Speckled trout forecast
April is here at last—time for any red-blooded coastal fisherman to start thinking about the fish.
The fish?[…]
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Bass Fishing
Spawn Specifics — Pro tips for fishing the bass spawn
When bass move shallow to make the next generation can be a time of great opportunity or a time of great frustration.[…]
Bass Fishing
Delayed Gratification — Why Toledo Bend bass fishing will turn on this month
If there has ever been a colder winter at Toledo Bend, Bassmaster Elite Series pro Dennis Tietje cannot remember it.[…]
Bass Fishing
Bend Bonanza — Keys for bass fishing the Toledo Bend spawn
Half-ounce Rat-L-Traps were about as rare from Alexandria west to Toledo Bend last month as a Republican at an Obama rally.[…]
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Cover: April 2014-Freshwater
The trout season is kicking off and bass should be on their spawning beds this month.[…]
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Cover: April 2014
The trout season is kicking off and bass should be on their spawning beds this month.[…]
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Top-shelf Tackle
They haven’t invented any new fish that we’re aware of, but the fishing industry never lets us down in terms of new products to help us catch all those fish that we know and love.[…]
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The Cajun and the Beast — How to catch snapping turtles
The huge, scaly beast — its massive body partially supported by the water — swim-crawled its way along the soft, mucky bottom. Its bear-like, long, black claws stirred up clouds of half-decayed vegetation and silt.[…]
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Small Tract Toms — Turkey-hunting tactics for small properties
You don’t need large acreage to score a big gobbler, if you know how to manage your property and employ the right strategy.[…]
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Bream busting in Boeuf — Tactics for bream fishing in Lake Boeuf
One hundred-thirty years of experience.
That’s what my friend Dirk Matherne, no spring chicken himself at 58, had fixed me up with. It was a little intimidating, listening to the two silver-maned old lions comparing notes with Mike Adams, a Raceland dentist and Lake Boeuf lover. […]
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Cover: March 2014
Toledo Bend already has turned out a number of double-digit bass, and Sulphur’s Johnny Walker — who has several lunkers to his credit — tells you how to get in on the action.[…]
Bass Fishing
Toading at Toledo — Keys to fishing frogs for bass
In Grimm’s Fairy Tales there is a story about a princess who made a deal with a frog who had secured her lost golden ball from the depths of a well.[…]
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Wetland Warriors — Battling coastal erosion by hunting nutria
“The coyotes ate all the rabbits! The ducks got short-stopped! And the squirrels all live in woods leased by deer clubs who hate squirrel hunters! So how’s a kid supposed to scratch his hunting itch nowadays?” […]
Bass Fishing
Marsh Punch-out — How to punch grass mats for big bass
Back in 2009 during the Bassmaster Central Open held in the Atchafalaya Basin, Elite Series angler and local favorite Cliff Crochet punched grass mats to earn his first trip to the Classic.[…]
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Barrier Bulls — How to catch bull redfish at Breton Island
So, I’m at this media event, at Theophile Bourgeois’ lodge in Lafitte. Bourgeois invited all his sponsors and a few media guys to spend a couple nights at his place, where he’d provide food and lodging, give us all a chance to mingle and talk shop, and then pile us into a fleet of bay boats to see if we could do more than talk the talk.[…]
Bass Fishing
The jewel in the city
I was in the heart of the urban jungle.
It was 4:30 in the morning.[…]