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River Wild, Part I

June 29, 2009 Terry L. Jones

Today, the Red River is a fishing mecca. Both largemouth and white bass prowl around its rock jetties, huge catfish lurk in the deep holes and crappie school up on the oxbow lakes.[…]

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Sweating to the Hits

June 29, 2009 Chris Ginn

If you were to list your all-time favorite things to do on the water during a lazy Louisiana summer, where would you rank catching crappie on a cypress-tree lake? Probably not too high, huh?[…]

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Wrecked!

June 29, 2009 Rusty Tardo

It started with a casual greeting just before daylight recently when I bumped into Capt. Charlie Thomason at the dock of Blackie Campo’s Marina in Shell Beach.[…]

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Blues are La.’s freshwater big-game fish

June 29, 2009 Jerald Horst

Seldom do anglers associate “freshwater” and “big-game fish” together. But Louisiana, with the continent’s largest rivers, large and small lakes and reservoirs, vast freshwater marshes and seemingly endless miles of small rivers, bayous and streams, is home to several species of large freshwater fish.[…]

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Delacroix holds hot July action

June 29, 2009 Greg Hackney

I love to fish the Delacroix area, especially Lake Lery, at any time of the year, but especially during July. If you fish around Delacroix this month, you’ll catch 20 or 30 bass and the same number of speckled trout and redfish.[…]

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Little Lake reds schooling along shorelines

June 26, 2009 Chris Ginn

It wasn’t very hard to tell where the redfish were biting in Little Lake and Bay L’Ours a couple days ago. Captain “Papa” Joe Bush (504-689-3728) wanted to get an early start because he knew word had traveled quickly, and he wanted to get to the hot spots before everybody else.[…]