Bass Fishing
Cover: June 2013
Find the nearest grass bed to snatch chunky bass into your boat this month, while specks are waiting along the coast. […]
June 2013
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Catching Up —The basics for recreational trawling for shrimp
It was opening day of the 2012 trawling season for the east bank, and I had arrived a little early at the boat launch.[…]
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Cover: June 2013-Inshore
Find the nearest grass bed to snatch chunky bass into your boat this month, while specks are waiting along the coast.[…]
Bass Fishing
Blade Runner — How to pimp your spinnerbait
Flashy appearance and bold profile may define the spinnerbait’s basic appeal, but there’s a lot of room for tactical tweaking and creative development — particularly with the blade setup.[…]
General
SpareOne
Powered by only a single AA battery, the SpareOne mobile phone is the perfect communication device to have in an emergency situation.[…]
Bass Fishing
Old Red Mare — Bass fishing the ever-changing Red River
The Red River might not be as bad as the old gray mare, but she definitely ain’t what she used to be.[…]
Fishing
LakeVü HD & LakeVü HD Ultra
Garmin is releasing some of the highest definition inland waterway maps they’ve ever created.[…]
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Refuge-relax — Head to Bayou Teche NWR for a quiet day of fishing
The balsawood float sailed through the air like a bullet with purpose to the predetermined target making a sploosh as it hit the water.[…]
Fishing
Prop Alert
Help keep your boat safe with the prop alert, a new product which cinches down over your prop and allows trailing vehicles to adequately judge how far away they are from your boat’s motor.[…]
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Redfish Central — Redfishing is crazy in this stretch of marsh near Empire
Eddie popped his cork, pointed toward the shoreline with his rod, and blurted, “Looks like that otter’s interested in my cork! Food must be scarce for him around here!”[…]
General
Bear & Son Cutlery
Bear & Son Cutlery has added three new 7-inch Skinners to their line of quality knives for hunters.[…]
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Greener on the Other Side — How to fish Raccoon Island without fighting the crowds
Fishing the islands means different things to Louisiana speckled trout connoisseurs. Masses of pulverized shell, thick spartina grass rimmed by hidden oyster reefs and even near-perfect circles of roseau cane all have their place in different areas along the coast for anglers to hoist healthy yellowmouths over the gunnels.[…]
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All in the Family — Grand Isle guiding couple share secrets for loading the boat with trout
It wasn’t even 6:45 a.m. and the Bellanger fishing team had boated 20 speckled trout. They were anchored on a submerged, eroded island on the west side of Barataria Waterway within easy sight of Grand Isle.[…]
Columns
Where’d the ‘sportsmen’s friend’ go?
When Bobby Jindal was running for the governorship in 2007, he said all the right things during an interview with this magazine.[…]