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Two Trees Trout – How to catch boatloads of Hopedale specks even after a front blows through
Hard late-April cold fronts are about as common as honest politicians.[…]
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Cover: April 2013-Specks
Big stringers of trout await this month across the Louisiana coast, while freshwater options abound for inland anglers.[…]
Bass Fishing
Cover: April 2013-Bass
Big stringers of trout await this month across the Louisiana coast, while freshwater options abound for inland anglers.[…]
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Un-train-ed — Fishing guides share their Lake Pontartrain Trestle tactics
Many of the Trestles trout that ended their day in an icy coffin had a bat ray to thank.[…]
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Flat Out — How to fill the boat with Flat Lake chinquapin
It’s easy. It’s fun. It can be “flat-tastic!” Ask anyone in the tri-city area of Morgan City, Berwick and Patterson where is the best place to fish redear sunfish, fondly referred around these parts as chinquapins, and the first place they’ll tell you is Flat Lake.[…]
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Late-season lingo — Learn how to fool wary turkeys
Veteran turkey hunter Randy Stafford remembers well one late-season hunt for a very wizened longbeard. “This old gobbler would not roost in the same place two days in a row,” the 65-year-old president of the Louisiana Chapter of the National Wild Turkey Federation said.[…]
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Retro-fitting — Panfishing in ‘Orlandia’ is a great diversion
Artie blew up at the very mention of the place.
“Man don’t even say the word!” he snarled. “Brings back too many memories! Now it’s all gone!”[…]
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Slot Red Roundup — Tips to win redfish tournaments
Kaplan’s Skip Floyd and his wife Tanya had traveled east by boat all the way from Bridge City, Texas, to the Lambert weir on southern Lake Calcasieu.[…]
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Hard Times — Turn to hard-plastic baits to catch lunker trout this month
At the mouth of the cove on the southwestern portion of Calcasieu Lake, Capt. Adam Jaynes slowed his Haynie Bay boat way, way down.[…]
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After the flood — Keying in on Sherburne WMA turkeys
Brandon Trahan remembers walking down a long, winding trail in Sherburne Wildlife Management Area and hearing a gobbler sound off at daybreak.[…]
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Wahoo Wonderland — How to catch more wahoo in the early spring
Offshore anglers know winter offers some of the best wahoo fishing of the year.[…]
Bass Fishing
Bullied Bass — How to adjust when largemouths aren’t spawning in the shallows
So much emphasis is placed on bullying in schools today that students can spot a bully much more quickly than they can spot an action verb.[…]
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Company Move — Catching crappie as simple as moving to find fish
Moving is a hassle.
Whether it’s cushioning the china in newspaper, bearing the weight of heavy boxes or figuring out what to do with the furniture, nobody likes to move.[…]
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Cover: March 2013
Springtime is here, and that means bass fishing breaks out across the state as fish move to the shallows to spawn.[…]
Bass Fishing
Flip that Switch – How to coax bass to bite on tough fishing days
You know they’re there, but the bass just have a bad attitude and they’re refusing to cooperate. Persistence is certainly an admirable trait, but repetitive casts are only one tactic for getting the job done.[…]
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The Odd Couple — How a pair of polar opposites catch speckled trout all year long
The big, fair-skinned, bluff man looked at me level in the eyes as he spoke.[…]