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Rig’Em Right Decoy Anchors
Hunters looking for an easy and super-fast way to retrieve their duck decoys without worrying about tangles will love Rig’Em Right Decoy Anchors.[…]
December 2012
Sidebars
Top picks for North Louisiana public duck hunting
The Ouachita River itself offers some good duck hunting in many of its backwaters, but there is a collection of publicly managed federal refuges and state wildlife management areas within a short drive of Monroe that would make any hunter green with envy.[…]
Deer Hunting
Know what you’re shooting at
Tensas Nation Wildlife Refuge is home to a number of Louisiana black bears, and hunters should be aware that they are still protected from hunting.[…]
Columns
Louisiana’s three-buck limit was the right call
OK, so I’m a meat hunter at heart. After more than 20 years of deer hunting and who knows how many deer on the ground, I still just love to squeeze the trigger and watch a deer do the death jump.[…]
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Sock Knocker
This past teal season didn’t exactly knock Capt. Chris Pike’s socks off. The Delacroix charter captain and duck-hunting guide hunted every day, and although he had some decent hunts, most days ended with a few empty spots on his duck strap.[…]
Deer Hunting
Bucks by the numbers
Refuge Manager Kelly Purkey said the chances of killing a buck on Tensas NWR is pretty good. Last season the refuge produced three bucks scoring over 200 non-typical points.[…]
Columns
Don’t knock whitey
White trout certainly don’t fight as hard a speckled trout, but anglers tossing the fish overboard are throwing away some good eatin’.[…]
Sidebars
Changing water conditions change duck patterns
Capt. Chris Pike is used to keeping an eye on the water while he is speckled trout fishing, and that has helped him to understand exactly how water conditions — namely high water and low water — affect duck hunting in the Southeast Louisiana marsh.[…]
Deer Hunting
About Tensas River NWR
Tensas River National Wildlife Refuge was established in 1980 with the aim of saving and preserving “one of the largest privately owned tracts of bottomland hardwoods remaining in the Mississippi Delta.”[…]
Ask Captain Paul
Yellowfin hotspots
Dear Capt. Paul,
Can you give me the GPS locations of the Blind Faith and Thunder Hawk rigs and any other coordinates you may have for areas to fish yellows out there?
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Sidebars
Biloxi Marsh offers duck hunters room to spread out
The marsh that Chris Pike hunts around Delacroix is admittedly all leased up. That means that one can’t just launch a boat and find the closest pond to make a duck hunt.[…]
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Wilkerson’s Wonderland — Myrtle Grove’s Wilkerson Canal offers great redfishing options
Maybe you’ve thought of Myrtle Grove as a mere blip in the road, a tiny hamlet somewhere between Ironton and West Pointe a la Hache, a place you whiz by on your way to more notable destinations, such as Buras, Empire and Venice.
But it’s time to think again.
Certainly, many old timers remember Myrtle Grove as an outstanding wintertime bank-fishing destination, where you could pay a small fee and pull your car or truck up near the edge of Wilkerson Canal and fish for trout and redfish.
It was well known for producing excellent catches of specks and reds in the most inclement weather. It actually seemed that the colder and more bitter the winter weather was, the better your chances of catching fish.[…]
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The Fourchon Freeze — Kayaks are perfect for catching redfish in Port Fourchon’s fish-filled waters
The Port of Fourchon is not the frozen tundra that Green Bay Packer fans so fondly depict their hometown as being. Nor do the surrounding waters of the port freeze, as some of those seen on the Discovery Channel’s “Deadliest Catch.”[…]
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Corked! How a popping cork could save your fishing trip
Scrunch, Scrunch, Schrunch! The heavy frost on the vehicle’s windshield wasn’t yielding easily to my efforts.[…]
Inshore Fishing
Fly-fishing a great Wilkerson Canal redfish option
Capt. Dave Marino’s other passion is to fish the same areas with a fly rod.[…]
Inshore Fishing
Kajun Kayaks
Just 65 pounds and stackable, Kajun Kayak’s 12-foot long, 34-inch-wide model is light enough for one person to handle and load into the bed of a pickup truck.[…]