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Waterfowl & Duck Hunting
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Hooked on Quack
The water was high, but it wouldn’t be for long. […]
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Sunup to Sundown
Southwest Louisiana has a special place in my fishing heart. There, on the border estuary of Sabine Lake, guide Chuck Uzzle introduced me to a large harem of speckled trout some six years ago. It was the biggest stringer of gorilla trout I have ever caught — nine fish over 28 inches were released that day. […]
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Lovey Dovey
Louisiana will really be a “Sportsman’s Paradise” for those outdoorsmen who enjoy the challenge of wing shooting for speedy gray bullets that buzz grain fields in the fall. […]
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Wild Duck Chase
The call of the wild. To Jack London, it meant wolf howls echoing through snowy valleys of the Alaska wilderness. To me, it sounds like geese — that distant honking that always jerks your gaze skyward and sets your neck craning around, searching for the source. […]
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Late is Great
In the latter part of the Louisiana duck season, times can be awesome and they can be frustrating. Just when you think you figured out a late-season pattern, it changes and then it does again the following season. […]
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Fronts: Blessings or Curse?
Forty-four-degree temperature drops are normally reserved for places like Canada’s Northwest Territory. […]
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Hunt like a Gypsy
The DU banquet was PACKED to suffocation. […]
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Thrill Seekers 101
There’s a certain smell that the rest of the world finds repulsive, but to a duck hunter it’s sweeter than a spring orchid. […]
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Goose Gear
I cannot count how many times I have traveled the back roads through Rayne, Crowley, Kaplan and Gueydan and points in between on my way to Pecan Island. […]
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Gleaning the Glades
Duck hunters throughout Louisiana were whining about the dearth of targets last year, and many had given up by the end of the first split. […]
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Ducking for Cover
No matter one’s position on the organization, it’s impossible to deny that Ducks Unlimited has done a tremendous amount of good for waterfowl, and hunters who pursue them, across the North American continent. […]
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Getting Goosed
A near perfect day for goose hunting was seemingly in store for us as we watched the Johnson grass buck in the stiff northerly wind. We were following the truck of one of Clint Matthew’s guides through the vast fields of long-ago harvested rice fields, almost tailgating so as not to lose him on the unfamiliar highways of the area around Kaplan. […]
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Different Ducks
Marsh duck hunting doesn’t consist of hundreds of decoys, big pit blinds and several callers talking to ducks at the same time. […]
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Plenty of Pressure
The sound was almost frightening. A dark, crisp December morning suddenly shaken by a too-close neighbor blasting the air waves with a duck call. How in the world he got there in the first place without you noticing was bad enough, but now the hideous sounds of his amateurish calling guarantee that no birds will be taken here. […]