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2012-13 WMA Forecast
Did you know when mast-producing trees are stressed, as they are in a drought, they produce a bumper crop of acorns?[…]
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2012-13 Rut Calendar
The key to having a good deer population is to have good reproduction to replace the deer harvested from the previous season and those that die from natural mortality.[…]
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Transitional haul: Never miss a lick as trout begin the annual inshore migration
September can pose some real challenges for trout fishermen. First, we have weather to contend with and, while that is true in any month, September is the peak of our tropical season — which brings winds and seas to a whole different level.[…]
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Promise Keepers: Tips for opening-morning bow hunts
Bowhunters spend all summer promising themselves that things are going to be different this year.[…]
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Island Invitation: Head to the Chandeleur Islands for great redfish, trout action
It was the eve of Feb. 1 in the year 1700 — a day long celebrated by Europeans as “Candlemas,” a day when their religious clergy blessed the candles that would be used in their religious services for the remainder of the year.
On the eve of that holy day, French explorer Pierre Le Moyne d’Iberville dropped anchor alongside a long chain of uninhabited islands off the border of the Louisiana/Mississippi coast and christened them Les Iles de Chandeleur (Translated in English a “The Chandeleur Islands”) in honor of the event.[…]
Bass Fishing
It’s always football season
Much more than a chunky, lumbering bottom bumper, the football jig offers a diverse tool for probing deeper spots — especially those with lots of hard stuff on the bottom.[…]
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Goin’ Downstairs: Tips for catching summertime fish deep in the MRGO
The trip looked doomed. It always happens this way. The prospects for the morning’s fishing trip always decrease in direct ratio to the number of wine corks popped and trips to the keg. When Doc cranks up “Shattered” by the Rolling Stones, the plans are seriously tail-spinning.[…]
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Cover: August 2012
It’s time to start thinking about the upcoming deer season. Also, Capt. Scott Avanzino knows the beaches are full of trout this month.[…]
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Cover: August 2012
It’s time to start thinking about the upcoming deer season. Also, Capt. Scott Avanzino knows the beaches are full of trout this month.[…]
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A surge of testosterone: One buck’s story
The rut is on. Mature bucks, if not pursuing does, are tending and breeding estrous females.[…]
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Afternoon Delight: Tips for tarpon fishing out of Venice
We were actually looking for kingfish, but a different king — this one also robed in silver — came to play, and the day turned interesting in a hurry.[…]
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Calcasieu Heat: Tips for Big Lake speckled trout success
Ten-year-old Phillip Rue was scrunched up on the bow seat of the boat, torquing the handle of the spinning reel ferociously.[…]
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Cranked! Tips for catching summertime marsh bass
“So uhhh — Dad. Why do we have to leave again?” my son Jason asked, while he was setting his crankbait with a solid jerk into another little marsh bass.[…]
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Postage Stamp Plots, Part IV
I pulled my game cam card and anxiously rushed back to the house to see what kind of horn porn awaited me.[…]
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A Grand Plan: Head to the Island for fishing options as varied as your imagination
It was time to put Plan B into action.
Craig Matherne and I had been trying to coax a trout or two to bite on the surf side of Grand Isle, and we were having very little luck.[…]
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Sweeping up
Making a clean sweep seems to always make things feel a little fresher.[…]