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Borgne Identity
Gasoline is well over $3 a gallon and the peak of the fishing season has not even arrived. What if you could still have a great fishing trip and spend a lot less on fuel for both the truck and the boat?[…]
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Grander Tuna
Kevin Carter resembled a marathon runner trying to sprint up the last hill to the finish line at the end of a race. Drenched in sweat from head to toe, his muscles rippled.[…]
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Delacroix Daze
The problem anglers face in May is not whether to go fishing, but where. The action turns on all over the state this month, and virtually any area you pick will be a winner.Even when you narrow your choice down to a particular area, you still face the same dilemma.[…]
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Super Psycho Specks
Size matters. If you don’t think so, stand at any of the number of boat ramps around Calcasieu Lake this month and ask anglers what they’re going after.[…]
Bass Fishing
Boondoggle Bassin’
It’s hard to imagine that the Florida Parishes don’t have some type of freshwater reservoir to attract anglers.[…]
Bass Fishing
Finger on the Pulse
Kelli Batten lives in West Monroe, and she wants to learn how to catch bass well enough to be able to fish tournaments in the future.[…]
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Cover: April 2008
The state’s experts look into a giant crystal ball and give their forecast for the coming trout year.[…]
Bass Fishing
Cover: April 2008-Bass
Louisiana bass come to jerkbaits like kids to pizza.[…]
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On Top of the World
Click, clack, click, clack, click-whoosh! Before the next clack, the red/white Top Dog was mauled by a 4-pound speckled trout.[…]
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Perfecting Pontchartrain
t’s often hard for anglers to believe the fishing reports they hear coming from Lake Pontchartrain. The problem is that their eyes rarely see what their ears hear.[…]
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Just North of Destruction
Eddie went through this a couple years earlier when he moved back to his home state of Louisiana after two divorces and at least one disbarment that we heard of.[…]
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On Golden’s Ponds
April is the tail end of the dreaded transition period, according to Capt. Chad Dufrene (985-637-6357). By now, the weather has definitely changed, and temperatures are established in a solid spring pattern.[…]
Bass Fishing
Jazzed Up Jerkbaits
Had it not been for missing roe estimated to be 1 1/2 to 1 3/4 pounds, Wisconsin resident Ed Stellner would have landed a new state-record largemouth bass back in February of 2000.[…]
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The Good, The Bad & The Ugly
She pricked my finger, smeared some blood on a slide and took it into the lab for analysis. After reading the findings, the technician glanced nervously at me while whispering behind her hand to a colleague.[…]
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Feast Fixins
Admittedly, I haven’t set out a trotline for catfish in a really long time. The last time I remember stringing out a line, I was still in high school. Those of you who know me realize that this had to have happened a l-o-n-g time ago.[…]
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Turkey Terrain
Despite their adventurous nature, the English Puritans who settled in America in the early 1600s were not singly outdoors-oriented.[…]