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Triple Play — Trout fishing tips for Lake Charles, Prien Lake and Moss Lake
There’s a lot going on in Lake Charles in November and December besides refining oil and moving liquefied natural gas.[…]
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Ground Rules — How to stalk deer
Decades ago, most people deer hunted either by using dogs or quietly stalking through the woods. Today, both methods seem to be dying out because of the land lease system and the increasing popularity of climbing and box stands. […]
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Shoot-Don’t Shoot, 2013 Edition
A new age of deer management and hunting was ushered in when the concept of quality deer management began to sweep across the Southeast United States and eventually into the Bayou State.[…]
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Limited Success — Duck hunting Manchac WMA’s limited access area
I knew this would probably be my last Louisiana duck hunt.
The Sirens Ulysses had to deal with had nothing on the Call of the Grandchildren: The wife was putting on serious pressure to move to Colorado.[…]
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Clovelly two-step — Speckled trout fishing gets hot at Lafitte’s Clovelly
I couldn’t figure out why my son wasn’t making a cast.
It was obvious where the fish were. The gulls dive bombing nervous shrimp was a dead give-away.[…]
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Theophile’s Flying Circus — Seaplane offers easy fishing access to barrier islands
Did you ever go to the circus when you were a kid? There really wasn’t anything else quite like it.[…]
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Night Stripes — Fishing tips for Lake St. John hybrid stripers
When darkness falls on Lake St. John, hybrid stripers swarm around pier lights. And these anglers know how to get them to bite.[…]
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Water Works — Hunting from a pirogue
Sid Havard exited his truck and left it parked along the banks of Black Lake Creek.[…]
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Cover: November 2013
Deer hunting means you have choices to make: Should you shoot that buck that walks out or let it live another year?[…]
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First Flight — Tips for youth waterfowl hunts
A long offseason crept to a close as the final weeks were counted down leading up to the last year’s waterfowl seasons.[…]
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Doctor’s Orders — Fall speckled trout and redfish hotspots mapped out
You’ve heard of situations described as “win-win-win.” How about one that’s “Win-Wynn-when?”[…]
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The Edge — How to hunt Bogue Chitto National Wildlife Refuge deer
“Now, during most of the day,” my cousin-in-law Al frowned, “the big bucks hole up in this thick stuff. This timber sure makes for tough hunting at times!”[…]
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Cover: October 2013
With the opening of bow season, it’s important to set up just right to ambush that buck you’ve been seeing on trail-cam photos.[…]
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Cajun Combo Platter — The Tchefuncte River is the gateway to great fishing
There are certain anglers who wait for Internet reports to tell them where to fish. If an area heats up, they find out about it, and then they hitch up the boat to go share in the fun.[…]
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Time Sensitive — Early season bow-hunting tips for public lands
Temperature’s dropping to 48! But it’s two days after Christmas. Getting in your deerstand for dawn? Probably. But you’re not really pumped for the occasion.[…]
Bass Fishing
River Rat — Bass-fishing tips for the Florida Parishes rivers
Joe Lavigne saw more deer than probably half the Louisiana hunters who had humped their way up trees one morning last October.[…]