Bass Fishing
Yo-Zuri introduces soft-plastic crank
A different look and a different feel are the selling points of a new crankbait on the market.[…]
Fishing
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Technique makes one a Jedi flycaster
According to Roger del Rio, the dark side of the fly fishing force threatens.[…]
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Easy East
It flashed like a silver dish flipping underwater. The lane snapper shot one way and then another.[…]
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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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All in the Family
In a world full of eroded family ties, North Louisiana is a place where the true family spirit can still be found. This section of Louisiana that has been titled “Sportsman’s Paradise” by the Louisiana Office of Tourism could more aptly be called “Sports-family’s Paradise.”[…]
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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
Chinquapin don’t only bite in the springtime. Learn how to catch these tasty fish in[…]
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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.[…]
Bass Fishing
Sweet Home Alabama
I fell in love with the Ouachita River exactly one week after I pulled up stakes in South Louisiana and headed north. This affair began as my first trip to the river ended with a 7-pound bass on the proverbial “last cast.”[…]