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Knuckle Busters
The topwaters were ridiculously large. They measured 5 inches long, and were as big around as the largest, nastiest stogie imaginable.[…]
Fishing
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Kickin’ Chickens
Came late summer, and Eddie finally sprang for that 22-foot Pro-line he’d been mooning over since he moved back down from up north, where he’d migrated after LSU.[…]
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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.[…]
Bass Fishing
D’Arbonne After Dark
Dale Taylor had been slinging his black buzz bait all night long. Gayle, his wife, had turned it in long ago, and was resting peacefully on the back deck[…]
Bass Fishing
Cool School
The memories of the summers of my youth growing up in rural North Louisiana are as vivid today as they were then — no school for three months, shoes and shirts tossed in the closet, cut-off jeans the only required apparel until September.[…]
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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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Basin’s Bream Buster
It wasn’t a man on the bow of the boat.
It was a machine.[…]
Bass Fishing
Buzzbait Bonanza
The sun was barely peeking through Venice’s roseau canes, but chirping could already be heard in the canal.[…]
Bass Fishing
Number of Nice Ones
The time of year was mid-summer. The time of day, dawn. The fishing hole, Lake D’Arbonne.[…]
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New Age Tuna Baits
The giant flare was as impressive audibly as it was in a visual sense, giving off a dull roar.[…]
Fishing
New sonar images look like pictures
Imagine that your boat is a plane flying over the lake bottom taking aerial photos of the bottom through windows on both sides of its hull, and you have a rough idea of what you get from Humminbird’s new Side Imaging feature.[…]
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.[…]
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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.[…]