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Raiding Reggio
The winds were already blowing steady out of the north when I arrived in the little St. Bernard community of Reggio. It’s a small hamlet on the side of Bayou Terre aux Boeufs on the way down to Delacroix Island.[…]
Fishing
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.400 Hitter
Lake Pontchartrain regulars are no doubt familiar with what has become known as World Series trout, trophy trout that show up every year around the first pitch of Major League Baseball’s championship series.[…]
Currents
Dark days ahead for red snapper?
“UPS and FedEx are doing just fine. … It’s the Post Office that’s always having problems.” — President Barack Obama, Aug. 11, 2009[…]
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The Fall of Fall
Luke Landry’s favorite color is green. It is the color of money and of envy, but more importantly to Landry, it is the color the lower Mississippi River gets this time of year.[…]
Inshore Fishing
Transition trout biting at Pontchartrain
September can be a tough month to find speckled trout because they can be outside, inside, or anywhere in between.[…]
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Finally Fall!
Few things in the Louisiana coastal fishing arena can match the fall and winter speckled trout run. The problem lies in the timing of such an event. Myriad factors go into exactly when the fish turn on, whether it’s catching them in the passes during years of a low Mississippi River or in the surrounding bays when the Big Muddy swells.[…]
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Locate bass on unfamiliar lakes
At almost every seminar and tournament, I’m often asked how I’ll fish a new lake. Today, advanced technology allows anglers to quickly and easily obtain information on lakes all over the country.[…]
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Wahoo are the Ferraris of the Gulf
Sleek, fast and glamorous, wahoo are the Formula One race cars of the fish world. Scientists know them as Acanthocybium solandri.[…]
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Dark side of the flyfishing force
Cosmologists believe that over 90 percent of the universe consists of something called “dark matter.” This is not to be confused with anti-matter.[…]
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Is it cavitation or ventilation?
In a recent e-mail, a reader requested help with what he believes is a cavitation problem. He described his boat as a 1994 16-foot center console with a 1994-model 70-horsepower engine.[…]
Fishing
New trolling motors are truly hands-free
About two decades ago, a serious fisherman named Joseph Mardesich left the high-tech halls of California’s computer geekdom and set out to change the world of electric trolling motors.[…]
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What’s not to love about Sweet Beaver?
The story about one of the most popular soft plastics coast to coast, border to border, is oh, so sweet.[…]
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Triple Treat
Some fish are cool; some aren’t. Even cold-blooded, dispassionate fisheries biologists recognize that. Sawfish are cool; pogies aren’t.[…]
Currents
No tag? Big problem
When looking for parental role models, it’s probably not the best of ideas to ponder the philosophies of 1970s-era shock rockers on the subject.[…]
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Mr. Gone
In typical bureaucratic style, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers completed damming the Mississippi River Gulf Outlet on April 22 of this year.[…]
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Last of the Grand Isle Specks?
According to popular thought, September is the last hurrah for speckled trout anglers who fish out of Grand Isle. It’s almost an accepted maxim: “When Labor Day is over, so is the trout season on Grand Isle.”[…]