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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. […]
Waterfowl & Duck Hunting
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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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Fly Delta
Hunt a place for a decade, and you’ll see sights known to no other man. Hunt a place as productive as the Atchafalaya Delta for a decade, and you’ll have a front-row seat to manifestations of nature too glorious to be fully appreciated by just one man.[…]
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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.[…]
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Gray Days
Every hunter has a specialty.
He may hunt for everything from antelopes to zebras, but there’s one animal that holds his fancy more than the rest.[…]
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Sight for the Blind
The two young hunters couldn’t believe their good fortune as they unloaded the last of the gear from the pirogue in the inky blackness.[…]
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Delta Teal Revisited
The teal opener and it’s a coolish 63 degrees. Could anything be more GLORIOUS?![…]
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2003 Duck Forecast
Many Louisiana waterfowlers had hung up their waders and packed their decoys away long before the end of last year’s hunting season, disgusted with the paltry opportunities to kill ducks.[…]
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Dollars Unlimited?
O.K., let’s start with the obvious: For the last two seasons, duck hunting in Louisiana has been, at best, disappointing.[…]