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Gettin’ Jiggy With It
I’m not sure what woke me first, the alarm clock or the repetitive ligI’m not sure what woke me first, the alarm clock or the repetitive lightning and thunder. […]
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SCARs run deep
Shane Johnson had found a magical hunting spot, and couldn’t wait to set up on it.“There was this scrape that was about 6 feet around,” Johnson said.[…]
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Cover: October 2008
Mandeville resident A.B. York arrowed this 171-inch beast last November in East Carroll Parish.[…]
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Central Line
The hotspots for speckled trout fishing seem to be fairly well-known. The marshes of Terrebonne, Lafourche, Jefferson and St. Bernard parishes have oodles of trout, mostly modest-sized but making up in number for what they lack in size.[…]
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Pearl River Rebound
Hurricane Andrew did it to Sherburne WMA in 1992 — barreled through and leveled it. This saved the LDWF millions.[…]
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Optima Elite .45-70 will ‘wallop’ deer
The late, great Robert Ruark wrote for many of the big outdoor mags in the 1950s and ’60s, and began a series of columns that would become one of the all-time hunting classics, entitled “The Old Man and the Boy.”[…]
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You can salvage your submerged boat
It was just a little over three years ago when Louisiana was dealt a horrific one-two blow from Katrina and Rita. […]
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Cashing in at the Coast
Frank Tullar was the guy I hung out with in high school. Of course, the fact that I dated his sister might have been part of it. Nonetheless, we were friends, and his sister didn’t hunt squirrels.[…]
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The Secret is Safe
Extreme Southwest Louisiana has a secret that it doesn’t want you to tell. You see, while lines of anglers wait to launch their bay boats into the fertile waters of Calcasieu Lake, there is an equally productive lake not too far away where it’s more common to see a lonely loon than it is lots of loony anglers.[…]
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Wealth and Poverty
When the weather starts to cool in early fall, most sportsmen hit the woods for squirrel hunting or the archery deer season.[…]
Fishing
Take trip to battery fountain of youth
About 20 years ago, a company called PulseTech Products Corporation developed a way to cancel a process that prematurely “ages” lead-acid batteries, rendering most of them useless long before their components actually wear out.[…]
Bass Fishing
Easy bites await at Ouachita River
In October, I like to fish the Ouachita River with its plentiful cover. When the weather starts cooling down, the spotted and largemouth bass and the shad will head for the shoreline and move into the many laydowns and sandbars.[…]
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Flounder Funnel
I’ve been known to drive quite a few miles to get on a good flounder bite. That’s why I immediately picked up my cell phone when I saw a recent picture on the fishing report page at www.lasmag.com.[…]
Bass Fishing
14-inch limit wastes Basin bass
Randy Lanctot, the esteemed executive director of the Louisiana Wildlife Federation, once told me that if outdoorsmen aren’t careful, they’ll conserve themselves right out of existence.[…]
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Crevalle jacks hungry, hard-fighting
In Louisiana, where the desirability of a sportfish is measured almost as much by its culinary attributes as its fighting qualities, the crevalle jack just doesn’t get any respect.[…]
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Autumn Oasis
Forty miles to the east of New Orleans in upper St. Bernard Parish lies a vast 40,000-acre swath of marshland known technically as the Biloxi Wildlife Management Area.[…]