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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. […]
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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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From Bambi to Bullwinkle
Michael Fazende and his 11-year-old son David settled into the box stand Nov. 1 hoping to get a jump on the other members on their 1,200-acre West Feliciana lease.[…]
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Carp — it’s what’s for dinner?
Fly fishers will find any means necessary to amuse themselves on the water. If it has fins, it’s fair game.[…]
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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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New trout rule won’t accomplish much
This just in: The Louisiana Wildlife and Fisheries Commission today passed a regulation restricting hunters to only two bucks scoring more than 160 B&C per season. The future of deer hunting in Louisiana is saved![…]
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Got coordinates? We sure do
Dear Capt. Paul:
I would like to get the coordinates for the Motor Vessel Dawn (wreck), also called the Golden Dawn. It is located in the Vermilion blocks in approximately 100 feet of water.[…]
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Cover: December 2003
When’s the best chance for you to kill that big buck? We’ve got the dates narrowed down.[…]
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Lightweights deliver a one-two punch
Cast and drift, cast and drift. It was getting rather tedious watching my strike indicator go floating with the current, through the riffles, and not a thing to show for it.[…]
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DuLarge, Delacroix and Lowrance
Dear Capt. Paul:
I have looked on several maps but cannot find DuLarge. I read about it all the time in Louisiana Sportsman, but have not yet been able to find out exactly where it is.[…]
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New sun study bad news for anglers
My 84-year-old grandfather has had so much skin cancer surgery, it’s amazing he still has any dermis covering his body. A fair-skinned man of English descent, he worked his entire life as a glazer, and consequently spent nearly as much time outside as your average tree.[…]
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Go cheap, and you’ll do the job twice
If there’s anything worse than having to do repairs, it’s having to do them over again because the materials you picked didn’t stand up to the marine environment.[…]
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Hunt like a Gypsy
The DU banquet was PACKED to suffocation.[…]
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Bird Watching on Big Lake
Ken Chaumont pulled his Steiner binoculars from his eyes and yelled out that he had spotted a huge flock of sea gulls working near the Washout. My pulse kicked into high gear.[…]
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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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Front-ending Bucks
Al Bullock knew a good buck was in the cutover, but after six straight days of hunting West Bay Wildlife Management Area he had nothing but lost time to show.[…]