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Four League Legions
For summer redfish action, locals from the St. Mary Parish Tri-City area head south, out the mouth of the Atchafalaya River and into Four League Bay.[…]
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Late summer’s hot for El Diablo
My first encounter with large spanish mackerel left quite an impression. It was back many years ago. Mark Hilzim, current Sportsman VP of Sales and Marketing, and I took our wives down to South Seas Plantation Resort, located on Captiva Island in Southwest Florida.[…]
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Calcasieu’s 4
August is an iffy month for fishing most any body of water in South Louisiana.Searing heat, time-consuming end of the summer activities and the beginning of the real tropical season tend to throw many fishermen off their rhythm in planning trips. […]
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Beach Boy
I grew up in the 1960s, when groups like the Beach Boys became rich and famous singing about surfing in the summertime.[…]
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Pass a Good Time
The tide was slack when C.J. Rojas reached Barataria Bay, and the results of the first several hours of fishing were predictable.[…]
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Breton Blast
Ernie Pyle called it the “thousand-yard stare.” Pyle was a WWII war correspondent who shared foxholes with the boys who won it. He wrote for the folks back home about the grunts and dogfaces and the holy hell they went through while blasting their way to victory — but from a front-line seat.[…]
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Broken Chain
When hurricane Ivan spared the majority of the population of Southeast Louisiana last fall, it certainly did the Breton and Chandeleur Island chain no favors.[…]
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Big Brother’s Shadow
Lake Borgne has for a long time taken a back seat to its bigger brother, Pontchartrain, who likes to hog the spotlight and grab all the attention for the large trout it produces.[…]
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Deepwater Doozie
It’s easy to outrun those huge tankers when they’re chugging upriver. They’re like us after a huge champagne brunch. You can almost hear them groaning as they churn slowly upriver, fully-laden, low in the water, every yard gained an agonizing effort.[…]
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Jurisprudence, Cote Blanche-Style
What is it about the flash of gold in green tinted water that makes so many of us go bonkers to the point of embellishment?[…]
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Red State
The first day of the 2004 Redfish Tour Open Championship was fishing about how most everybody had scouted it.[…]
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Reef Raider
Only a slight ripple tousled the water as Erik Rue streaked across the wide-open reaches of Calcasieu Lake.[…]
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Cover: July 2005-Trout
See our diagram of a fictional pass to learn how pros fish these trout-producers.[…]
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The Red Line
Raphael Pass was gorgeous as Ron Price’s boat sliced through the emerald-green water and into Joe Brown Pass.[…]
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Surprise Amberjacks
We were halfway to Venice on a fun Friday night, and the reminiscing about a previous life in Tigerland was kicking into high gear (stopping at a Daiquiri shop helped).[…]
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Redfish on Bull Minners
A pre-sunrise sheen flowed across the water like a micron-thin coating of mercury, mirroring scattered clouds cruising above the calm waters of Bayou Long.[…]