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2009 Turkey Season Forecast
With the 2009 spring turkey season opening next month, what areas of the state might have the best hunting opportunities based upon the annual poult production surveys?[…]
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Saltwater Perch Jerking
The venison fajitas and sheepshead ceviche were the hit of the evening. As usual for the post-Endymion festivities, Doc Fontaine’s Bourbon street bungalow was packed to suffocation.[…]
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Cover: February 2009-Hunting
Echoes of trophy deer and hopes of trophy trout – it’s all in this issue.[…]
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Cover: February 2009-Fishing
Echoes of trophy deer and hopes of trophy trout – it’s all in this issue.[…]
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Turkey Tracks on Small Tracts
Opening day of the 2008 season, I was set-up in my ground blind on a wheat/clover patch I had planted with two sorghum strips during the spring of 2007.[…]
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Good for the goose
Bobby Belaire received a call last February from a rice farmer, and he couldn’t believe the opportunity he was offered.[…]
Bass Fishing
Purple, Green, Gold and Red
The entire fishing world will have its eyes focused on the Red River near Shreveport in February for the 2009 Bassmaster Classic. The best bass fishermen of 2008 will compete for the $1/2-million first prize and plenty more trickle-down money.[…]
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Circuit Riders
Back in the earlier days of American history and due to the lack of ministers and the far distance between churches, some preachers, called circuit riders or saddlebag preachers, would journey long distances on horseback to rural churches to preach.[…]
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Long and Short
There are as many ways to catch crappie as there are names for the tasty fish. Some prefer dipping a cork and shiner in tree tops, some use nothing but jigs in open water, and still others rig up multi-pole “spider rigs” with both jigs and shiners to fish flats and deep holes.[…]
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2008-09 Deer of the Year
Big bucks fell across the state this season as cooler winter weather seemed to really get deer moving. Here are the stories of some of the year’s biggest bucks.40-acre beast.[…]
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3-Step Specks
Nearly 40 years of guiding has taught Capt. Stu Scheer with Cocodrie Inside Charters at least one thing — February is without a doubt the worst month of the year to fish out of Cocodrie.[…]
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Calcasieu Crapshoot
Fishing Calcasieu Lake during February is a crapshoot. If you’ve never heard of that colloquial phrase, don’t worry.[…]
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Climb the Wall
Whoever is in charge of fishing at Venice this year must be the same guy who schedules the holidays.Just like staring at Valentine’s Day only weeks after Christmas, Venice guides haven’t had much time in between a series of unfortunate events.[…]
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Cover: January 2009
Brad Pourciau has had great success using decoys to lure in late-season bucks.[…]
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Swan Song
If only Pelayo were as punctual as wood ducks. The exasperating two-winged creatures keep a rigid daily schedule, flying exactly five minutes before and five minutes after legal shooting time.[…]
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Mining for Silver and Bronze
The weather forecast predicted cold temperatures and winds blowing out of the north at up to 25 mph. It would be perfect weather for duck hunting. Only we weren’t going duck hunting, we were going fishing.[…]