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Deer of the Year
The 2012-13 hunting season opened with real promise, as the past couple of years produced dozens of absolute hammer bucks.[…]
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Secrets of a sac-a-lait master – How to catch more crappie
He called it “venture fishing.” I called it a few choice words I can’t write here. But before me lay an extremely, thick tangle of small, long branches sticking atop the water from a submerged, major artery of a tree.[…]
Freshwater Fishing
Top Chicot Lake crappie tactics
Another location on Glynn Lavergne’s rotating itinerary is Chicot Lake — 2,000 acres of flooded cypress/tupelo located north of Ville Platte within the interior of Chicot State Park.[…]
Freshwater Fishing
Best crappie tackle and lures
Part of Glynn Lavergne’s secret to success with slab crappie has to do with the very sensitive tackle he uses to entice these sac-a-lait.[…]
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A labor of love — How the New Orleans Big Game Fishing Club began
Louisiana is blessed in all things that come from the water. Its reputation as a seafood-producing and consuming state is unequaled.[…]
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Good Vibrations — Spinnerbaits offer another option to catch speckled trout
After picking up the third speckled trout in a row on a spinnerbait, I looked at Ken Chaumont and said, “This ain’t coincidence anymore.”[…]
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Fourchon Meat Haul — Catch boxes of sheepshead by fishing the rigs just off Louisiana’s coast
The call to Doc Fontaine seemed perfunctory, a mere formality — almost pointless. After all, traditionally, mooching a Grand Isle camp for a weekend in February ain’t too hard.[…]
Bass Fishing
Dogged Determination — How to catch big Caddo Lake bass during the winter using Rat-L-Traps
Lipless crankbaits are not for the cowardly.
With all those exposed treble hooks, the faint-hearted have a hard time seeing past the snag waiting to happen.[…]
Bass Fishing
Confidence colors come through in the crunch
Fishing lure colors are a hotly contested conundrum. One angler swears by black-and-blue, while another won’t throw anything but watermelon red.[…]
Bass Fishing
Caddo guide adjusts to salvinia on a daily basis
The salvinia that has infested Caddo Lake has forced many bass anglers to adjust their approaches to fishing the lake.[…]
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Rip Dash Rocked — Spend time fishing with this local rock legend
Roughly 15 hours of every day of my childhood were spent fishing in Southwest Florida. In my late teens, I put aside the rod after picking up the guitar.[…]
Inshore Fishing
Dularge camp provides rock muse
Rows of houses out in the water looked in every way like a regular, quaint neighborhood, except totally lacking in roads.[…]
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How much are you worth?
Hunting and fishing are huge recreational factors for those of us who, by the grace of God, were born in Louisiana. It’s just engrained in our psyche. Bred into our very genes.[…]
Cobia
Cobia: The curious fish
Cobia feed from the surface of the water down to the bottom, often over 100 feet deep. And they will eat almost anything.[…]
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Cover: February 2013
It’s time to brush the dust off the boat and catch some fish! Learn where and how to catch bass, speckled trout, crappie and more.[…]
Freshwater Fishing
Long and Short
There are as many ways to catch crappie as there are names for the tasty fish.[…]