Bass Fishing
Locks, Tops and Barrels
Few Red River bass tournaments held out of Alexandria are won with fish landed in Pool 2.[…]
March 2003
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Tough Turkey Tactics
The wind was stiff, and the sun was blocked by a thick layer of clouds. Lafayette’s Jeff “Bubby” Jackson stepped out of his truck and shook his head.[…]
Bass Fishing
Shroud of Mystery
Caddo Lake, a 26,800-acre unspoiled treasure shared equally by Texas and Louisiana, has been called “the most beautiful lake in America” as well as “the best big-bass secret in the South.”[…]
Bass Fishing
Rivers of Bass
Roger Boler’s lure split the water beside the cypress tree soundlessly, barely making a ripple.[…]
Marine Electronics
Electronics lingo made simple
Reading the owner’s manual for a fish finder or GPS navigator exposes you to terminology found nowhere else. Here is a quick primer translating some common but important terms in the language of electronics.[…]
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Lafitte’s Hideaway
Generally, March is a warming month. It’s not really winter anymore, at least not here in the deep Gulf South.[…]
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Dollars Unlimited?
O.K., let’s start with the obvious: For the last two seasons, duck hunting in Louisiana has been, at best, disappointing.[…]
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Dog Days
Glenn Leingang has nowhere to go but down. That’s what happens when you achieve the pinnacle of a sport so early in your career.[…]
Currents
Open letter to an old friend of mine
George,
Hey, buddy! How’s everything? Long time, no see. I know it’s probably taxing to run the entire free world, but hey, a 20-minute phone call is only 99 cents. Is 20 minutes too much to ask from an old chum?[…]
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Crappie Connection
Fishing is in Mike Megee’s blood, courtesy of a transfusion received years ago while spending time with his father-in-law on the water in his home state of Arkansas.[…]
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Behemoth Bream
Eddie Halbrook turned his nose into the air and started sniffing. He looked like a beagle that just hit a hot trail.[…]
Bass Fishing
Bass Lake Report Card
Considering that successful bass fishermen do their homework before going on the water, how about subjecting the many bass fisheries in Louisiana to academic standards of their own for 2003?[…]
Columns
Louisiana flyfishing pioneer still at it
Ask the conventional angler in our state if they’ve ever heard of Tony Accardo, Pete Cooper or Tom Nixon, and chances are Nixon is the one that comes up with a blank.[…]
Ask Captain Paul
It’s not difficult to convert coordinates
Capt. Paul:
I was wondering how to convert lat/lon coordinates. A source of information on current rig locations in the Gulf of Mexico list their locations in the following strange format as I have listed below. I would like to be able to convert into a ddd mm.mmm format that I use in my GPS unit.[…]
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A Taste of Spring
“You cast that bait right over that reef, and I guarantee a fish,” said Buras fishing guide John L. Taylor, pointing his 7-foot Shimano V-series rod toward a small spit of land near a sun and rain-scrubbed white PVC pipe leaning at a 60-degree angle.[…]