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Echoes of Yesterday
Once upon a time, a man walked alone on a desolate pothole prairie in Southwest Louisiana, shrouded in the mist of a cold winter morning.[…]
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West Delta Unwrapped
Jagged bolts of lightning flashed through the blinds of the Sandpiper Cove, and the accompanying boom of thunder rocked us from our warm bunks long before the requested 5 a.m. wakeup call.[…]
Bass Fishing
False Focus
Just at the edge of the shadow cast by Baton Rouge lies one of the most underestimated lakes in the entire state of Louisiana.[…]
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Long Ride for Big Trout
Sometimes it’s flat, no breeze in your face. Sometimes there’s a chop and the wind ripples your clothes. And sometimes you don’t want to be out there at all in those near-offshore waters of the Gulf of Mexico.[…]
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Oh my Gauche!
The red torpedo cork hit the duckweed and just kept going. For a moment I could only imagine the terror that fat cricket must have experienced as it plunged below the water’s surface only to find itself being sucked between the lips of a giant warmouth.[…]
Ask Captain Paul
Can inshore, offshore maps be installed?
Dear Capt. Paul:
I have a GPSmap 188c, and am going to be fishing offshore and some inshore. Can I install both the Blue Chart and the MapSource on the same data card?I have a 64mb data card, and have used very little room, but didn’t know if the unit was capable of switching back and forth.[…]
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2006 Summer Saltwater Season Blowout
Feel that?
That’s the same feeling ducks begin to get late in the summer when the sun’s daily arc creeps closer and closer to the horizon.It’s the same longing the swallows have when their tiny bird brains dream of Capistrano.[…]
News Breaker
La. angler boats world-record snapper
When Maggie Corbett left her Springfield, Missouri home on Wednesday to head down to Cocodrie for opening day of snapper season, she had a good feeling.[…]
Inshore Fishing
Plaquemines Parish the place to be
The Plaquemines Parish recovery took a body blow recently when it was announced that there was a push to exclude the parish from a strengthened levee system that would protect the rest of the region.[…]
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Perfect Speck Storm
I used to think God was mad at me for spending too many Sundays fishing bass tournaments rather then sitting in church.[…]
Freshwater Fishing
Take a redear roadtrip to Caney
Anglers looking for a good road trip this weekend couldn’t make a better decision than to head up to Caney Lake in Jackson Parish to tangle with the giant chinquapin that’s turning the lake into a panfishing paradise.[…]
Inshore Fishing
DuLarge trout moving south
One look at the fishing reports on this site is enough to make the most honest of those among us develop enough of a cough to call in sick.[…]
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Ready, Set, Fish!
April signals the arrival of many spring traditions across Louisiana — among them Jazz Fest, crawfish boils and strawberries.[…]
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APT Moniker
Fog wrapped up the Mississippi River passes as sunlight slowly beat back the darkness. And so we sat at Venice Marina, chatting and watching workers repair hurricane damage to the facility.[…]
Fishing
Solutions to a slow-starting engine
I received an e-mail this month from a reader (I’ll call him Joe) who is having carburetor troubles. He wrote that he has a 1987 model boat with an XYZ brand outboard.[…]
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Pattern your shotgun to take more game
As a young dad, I wanted to take my boys deer hunting, but they were still small for high-powered rifles, and the budget didn’t allow for two new rifles anyway.[…]