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Insight on Cocodrie’s Inside
It was a typical Louisiana spring day — the wind was howling to beat the band, and the water was, well, less than clear.[…]
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Basin Bream Bash
Gabby was never much of a fisherman. Oh, sure, she’d go out with the family when we would fish, but just so she could feel the wind in her hair as we ran the boat from one spot to another.[…]
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Nighttime Raids
Trivia has it that Georges Auguste Escoffier (1846-1935), the father of French cuisine, listed frog legs on the menu of the famous Hotel Carlton in London as, “Cuisses de Nymphe Aurore.”
Considered a disgusting food by the British, who could resist an item on the menu with a name such as “Legs of the Dawn Nymphs?”[…]
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Consistent Calcasieu
Drags screaming and rods bending mean bull reds diving for the bottom, a scene often interrupted by 5-, 6- and 7-pound trout exploding on surface lures that walk on water.[…]
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Stalking the Thundering Herd
The water explodes when redfish school up to feed on shrimp. Like geysers, the water erupts with intense fury as hundreds of redfish wreck a helpless pod of bait.[…]
Bass Fishing
Have a Cow, Man!
There is a hidden bass-fishing treasure in the Atchafalaya Basin that few know about and even fewer dare to venture.[…]
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Creeping Cocodrie-Style
The red was clearly visible, relaxing just on the edge of a marshy point of grass.[…]
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Black Crappie
Bigger is better, right?
Not in Capt. Bryce Michel’s estimation.[…]
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Monsters of the Midway
Capt. Bill Lake meant no disrespect toward his sparring partner. “That’s not the size we wanted,” he muttered after gaining a glimpse of a 2 1/2-pound trout that was darting around haphazardly in a desperate and futile attempt to regain its freedom.[…]
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Guaranteed Action
Zack set the hook and erupted with a mighty “WHOOOAH!” His rod bashed the console as it dipped to the water.[…]
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Oak River Rhapsody
I nicknamed it “Mr. Reliable” over a dozen years ago, and for good reason: It kept producing fish.[…]
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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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Sweet Vermilion
Lafayette’s Evangeline Steakhouse had a familiar air about it when I walked through the doors to meet with the Acadiana Speck Club.[…]
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Arriba Sac-a-lait
When you see hundreds of tow vehicles this month in a parking lot at Spanish Lake, it can only mean one thing.[…]
Bass Fishing
Clearance Sale
These young guns coming up on the competitive bass fishing scene have so much technology and information at their fingertips.[…]