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Still lots for Louisiana boaters to do
I remember looking through some old photographs that my mother had when I found one of my mother and dad sitting in one of dad’s race boats. The third person in the boat was me.[…]
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Freshwater Superhighway
Doc Fontaine’s brother-in-law of the month was visiting South Louisiana from Oregon for a wedding. He also wanted to squeeze in some of the fabulous fishing Doc had been preaching about since they’d met a year earlier.[…]
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Put a 12-volt meteorologist in your boat
Weather can kill people in boats and be downright sneaky while doing it. When fishing Lake Tawakoni in East Texas, for instance, I remember how blue northers would slide by just clear of the west side of the lake, like they were going to miss us, and then circle around to come north right over the dam and hit the lake.[…]
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Now you see them …
The athletic young man’s glittering eyes and neatly trimmed goatee gave him the look of a predator.[…]
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ItzaBug improvement on Gator Pup
The 4-inch ItzaBug by Stanley Lures just might represent the pinnacle of the creative artificial lure manufacturing prowess of John Dean.[…]
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Red is certainly not dead
This month, I’ll return to the Red River at Shreveport to fish for bass. Generally in June, the river begins to go down and stabilize, and the bass start their summertime pattern.[…]
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Kayakity-yak
I had been warned that kayak fishermen are passionate about their sport, and that they love to talk about it. Oh, how they love to talk about it![…]
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The secret to fishing that father knows best
My dad. Everything he does in the outdoors — from gardening to setting crawfish traps — he does with a passion few men have. And excels at it.[…]
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Tickets being written ‘only for the most-blatant’ violations of fishing closures
Recreational fishing closures have come at a staggering pace since the Deepwater Horizon oil spill began more than a month ago, and that has left many anglers scratching their heads and sometimes fishing water that have closed without their knowledge.[…]
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Flat-Out Fantastic
To the east, an orange ball glowed just above the horizon through the cypress and tupelo trees in the backwater areas of the basin. […]
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Red snapper are not homebodies
It is hard to believe that the recreational season for Gulf of Mexico red snapper has shrunk to less than two months this year.[…]
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Boogie Nights
Now I know what driving against contra-flow must feel like. The boats that were getting out of Bayou DuLarge down at Jug’s were making it difficult for us to get in.[…]
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Saltwater Series: Grand Terre
Capt. Eddie Berthelot and I idled into the Wildlife and Fisheries Canal on the north side of Grand Terre Island in late April with prior knowledge and past years’ experiences pointing out that we were about to have a good time.[…]
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Long, Large & Lazy
If husbands could achieve trophy status by the number of their weight on the scales rather than the number of dimples on their chins, I would grade out much higher today than I did 14 years ago when my wife and I got married.[…]
Ask Captain Paul
Horseshoe Reef a summer hotspot
Dear Capt. Paul:
Do you have information and GPS coordinates for the Horseshoe Reef in the Lake Pelto area?[…]
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Pointe-aux-Chenes hit with closure, western-most state offshore waters reopen again
More fishing closures were put in place in Lafourche and Terrebonne parishes this evening (May 28), while the state offshore waters between Marsh Island’s South Point and Freshwater Bayou reopened, the Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries announced.[…]