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New Age Tuna Baits
The giant flare was as impressive audibly as it was in a visual sense, giving off a dull roar. […]
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Fishing
New sonar images look like pictures
Imagine that your boat is a plane flying over the lake bottom taking aerial photos of the bottom through windows on both sides of its hull, and you have a rough idea of what you get from Humminbird’s new Side Imaging feature. […]
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Jurisprudence, Cote Blanche-Style
What is it about the flash of gold in green tinted water that makes so many of us go bonkers to the point of embellishment? […]
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Reef Raider
Only a slight ripple tousled the water as Erik Rue streaked across the wide-open reaches of Calcasieu Lake. […]
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Not a Novelty
The small cove on the eastern end of Calcasieu Lake looked much like any other stretch of uninhabited shoreline. It wasn’t so much of a cove as a dip in the largely featureless stretch of bank. […]
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Map Feature: Sabine Lake
The heavy fog, which had inundated the extreme southwestern part of the state, was just beginning to break when the 9-pound redfish began its assault on the southern end of Sabine Lake, trying in vain to render the colorful MirrOlure useless for the remainder of the day. […]
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Winter Wading
Human nature seems to require most fishermen to try and make something happen before it’s really the ideal time. […]
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Satellite Specks
Capt. Ronny Biddy of the Hackberry Rod and Gun Club, a guide on Calcasieu Lake for 11 years, shut down his big engine, jumped to the bow and lowered his Minn Kota. […]
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Big Lake Migration
Calcasieu Lake calls out to trout anglers like whale-rich waters beckoned Ishmael and Captain Ahab. The lure of landing a trophy or just the pure mystery behind why it is such a strong speckled trout producer summons anglers from hundreds of miles out. […]
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Bird Watching on Big Lake
Ken Chaumont pulled his Steiner binoculars from his eyes and yelled out that he had spotted a huge flock of sea gulls working near the Washout. My pulse kicked into high gear. […]
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Southern Sac-A-Lait
Louisiana has its great and storied winter sac-a-lait fishing holes such as Saline-Larto and the Chicken Coop at Toledo Bend. […]
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Getting Goosed
A near perfect day for goose hunting was seemingly in store for us as we watched the Johnson grass buck in the stiff northerly wind. We were following the truck of one of Clint Matthew’s guides through the vast fields of long-ago harvested rice fields, almost tailgating so as not to lose him on the unfamiliar highways of the area around Kaplan. […]
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Short-Rig Specks
Draw a line on a map between the Cameron Jetties and the 18-mile light out of Sabine Pass then back to the Sabine Jetties, and you have a triangle. […]
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Rice-Field Rabbits
The dictionary defines instinct as “a complex, unlearned, adaptive response to some situation or experience.” […]
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Overlooked Opportunity
The big Parker slid smoothly under the bridge, and the south end of Sabine Lake spread out before the anglers. […]
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A + BAB = AT
April + American Bay = Awesome Trout.
It’s a formula that works every spring. […]