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The Middle of it All
Every now and then, I’ll walk through the room while my wife is watching HTGV and see some property virgins making a $500,000 offer for a three-bedroom house.[…]
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The Ugly Cousin
They are the unsung heroes, those by whom much responsibility is borne but to whom little credit is ever given.[…]
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2009 Speck Forecast
Hurricanes, with the associated torrential rains and storm surges, didn’t seem to affect the trout fishery last year. And, indeed, the fishing seemed easier in many instances.[…]
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Luck of Lafitte
How difficult would you find it to talk about fishing without saying the word luck?[…]
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Bouncing Around Buras
March has the reputation of being “kite-flying weather.” It might not be the best month for fishing, but it’s perfect if you want to get that kite airborne. You won’t even have to run to get some air under the kite.[…]
Bass Fishing
Dazed and Confused
My first experience fishing the Tchefuncte River in St. Tammany Parish was the trolling motor going out on my brand-new Bass Tracker TX-17.[…]
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Cover: March 2009
Bass pro Jason Pittman knows there’s no better month for catching bass than March.[…]
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Fantastic Four
Capt. Papa Joe Bush maneuvered his bay boat through the Pen and down toward the Texaco Canals as an approaching cold front hung ominously low in the sky just behind us.[…]
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Mr. Crappie
For most of the past decade, I’ve talked with 65-year-old Bobby Phillips on a weekly basis, picking his brain for a fishing report I put together for newspapers, magazines and radio.[…]
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5 Spinnerbait Secrets
Outside the occasional marsh bass that falls for my redfish spinnerbait, I can’t tell you the last time I had a really good spinnerbait bite in a lake or river.[…]
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Helping Mother Nature
Television viewers from the 1970s will easily remember the irate words, “It’s not nice to fool Mother Nature,” followed by a peal of thunder and a bolt of lightning.[…]
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Deer of the Year, Part II
Up-and-down temperatures drove some deer hunters crazy, but the weather didn’t seem to affect the big-buck kill. Here are the stories about how some hunters scored big.[…]
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Fond Farewell
We pulled up, looked around and found we had Joshua’s Marina almost to ourselves. “That super high river has this area all fouled up,” Pelayo said. “Look at that — water’s even dirty way up here by the marina.[…]
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The Other White Meat
While riding downriver from the Berwick landing, the thought occurred to me: Why would anyone prefer white meat? […]
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Get in the Game
North and Central Louisiana bass anglers can hardly wait for the bass tournament schedules to come out each year.[…]
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Miserable March?
Miserable March! I call it the bipolar month, the manic-depressive month and the month that just can’t make up its mind. March can’t seem to decide if it wants to be spring or winter, so it teases us with a little of both.[…]