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Mr. Sac – Tips for fishing crappie on Bayou Corne
Bayou Corne is famous for its crappie fishing, known locally as sac-a-lait and in North Louisiana as white perch.[…]
November 2012
Inshore Fishing
Best baits
Pike said he mostly fishes Bomber mud minnows in glow/chartreuse, electric chicken, all chartreuse or purple/chartreuse, but any color with a chartreuse tail will be effective.[…]
Hunting
Condo Deck
The Condo Deck from Southern Outdoor Technologies is the perfect companion to any Sportsman’s Condo Blind.[…]
Freshwater Fishing
Looney’s Bayou Corne sac-a-lait tackle
Jim Looney is an artificial bait kind of guy. Except when he is targeting bream in the heat of the summer, live bait is never on his hook.[…]
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Dr. Pontchartrain — Learn from one of Lake Pontchartrain’s legends of fishing
Dr. Bob Weiss knew where some keeper trout were holding. He knew he could yank up his anchor, start his motor and high-tail it to feeding speckled trout at the L&N Bridge in the Rigolets.[…]
Hunting
KonusPro Plus
Featuring an unbreakable glass engraved, 30-30 red and blue dual illuminated reticle, the KonusPro Plus 3X-10X44 is the perfect scope for hunting in any lighting conditions.[…]
Freshwater Fishing
The Sinkhole
Since mid-summer, Bayou Corne has received plenty of not-so-welcome publicity because of what the media has dubbed the “Bayou Corne Sinkhole.”[…]
Inshore Fishing
Separate and distinct
Because he fishes every day, Dr. Bob Weiss has more fishing partners than a bass pro wannabe on the co-angler circuit.[…]
Hunting
The Vapor Maker
The Vapor Maker is a scent dispersal system that puts scent in the air in liquid form, allowing you to release any scent killer or attractant the natural way that animals smell it.[…]
Freshwater Fishing
An author too!
Besides being a fanatical angler, Jim Looney is the author of 12 fishing booklets focused on how to catch bass, bream and sac-a-lait in the Grand Bayou-Bayou Corne areas, as well as the Atchafalaya Basin. He also covers redfish and speckled trout in Pointe au Chien.[…]
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Scout’s Promise —Tips for hunting Atchafalaya Basin wood ducks
Long before daylight, Cole Romero laid flat on his back along the floor of the boat, the back of his head resting on a gear bag positioned on the front deck like a pillow.[…]
Hunting
THE TUBE Gravity Feeder
Keep your feed off the ground with THE TUBE Gravity Wildlife Feeder.[…]
Freshwater Fishing
Learn It!
Like so much of Louisiana, the Bayou Corne/Grand Bayou area seems to be a maze of canals and bayous. All of them look almost the same, so “what does a poor girl do?”[…]
Sidebars
Three ducks in the bag
From the season being totally closed in the early part of the 20th century to a limit of two birds in 1962, after 20 years where hunters could harvest just one, in the 2008-09 duck season the daily bag limit for wood ducks went to three.[…]
Hunting
Barnett Buck Commander
The Buck Commander comes standard with the industry’s only proprietary Carbon Riser Technology (CRT), giving it great handling and superior balance.[…]
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Shoot, Don’t Shoot — Learn how to properly manage deer through proper harvest
It’s time for the 2012 edition of Shoot-Don’t Shoot Sportsman, so grab a pen and paper, and mark how many times you would squeeze the trigger.[…]