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Life in the Fast Lane

At the expense of small towns all across America, the Interstate system became a traveler’s best friend as Americans realized they could speed from one side of the country to the other without anything in their way.[…]

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Great 8

Taking a topwater to the crotch doesn’t sound like something a speckled trout angler would have to worry about. Sling a trout in the boat, let him flop around on the floor, grab him and unhook him.[…]

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The Lady and the Kid

“Well, at least the pork chop sandwich is good.” A half hour earlier, at 5 a.m., I stepped out of my truck under the Seabrook Bridge and a 20-mph wind hit me in the face like I had been smacked with a cast-iron frying pan.[…]

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River Wild, Part I

Today, the Red River is a fishing mecca. Both largemouth and white bass prowl around its rock jetties, huge catfish lurk in the deep holes and crappie school up on the oxbow lakes.[…]

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Sweating to the Hits

If you were to list your all-time favorite things to do on the water during a lazy Louisiana summer, where would you rank catching crappie on a cypress-tree lake? Probably not too high, huh?[…]

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Wrecked!

It started with a casual greeting just before daylight recently when I bumped into Capt. Charlie Thomason at the dock of Blackie Campo’s Marina in Shell Beach.[…]