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2009 Speck Forecast
Hurricanes, with the associated torrential rains and storm surges, didn’t seem to affect the trout fishery last year. And, indeed, the fishing seemed easier in many instances.[…]
Statewide LA
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Luck of Lafitte
How difficult would you find it to talk about fishing without saying the word luck?[…]
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Bouncing Around Buras
March has the reputation of being “kite-flying weather.” It might not be the best month for fishing, but it’s perfect if you want to get that kite airborne. You won’t even have to run to get some air under the kite.[…]
Currents
Want bigger trout? Read this book
Biologists are dorks.[…]
News Breaker
L.D.W.F. turkey tagging regulations in effect for 2009 season
The Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries (LDWF) will enforce turkey-tagging regulations during the 2009 turkey season and urges hunters to become familiar with the steps in the process before the season begins.[…]
Bass Fishing
Dazed and Confused
My first experience fishing the Tchefuncte River in St. Tammany Parish was the trolling motor going out on my brand-new Bass Tracker TX-17.[…]
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Cover: March 2009
Bass pro Jason Pittman knows there’s no better month for catching bass than March.[…]
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Fantastic Four
Capt. Papa Joe Bush maneuvered his bay boat through the Pen and down toward the Texaco Canals as an approaching cold front hung ominously low in the sky just behind us.[…]
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Election drives gun sales, carry applications
Since the recent presidential election, sales of AR-15-style rifles have gone off the charts, and some manufacturers now report backlog orders for their rifles to number in the thousands.[…]
Fishing
Flushing will save you big bucks
I have asked many customers how often they flush out their engines, and the answer is almost always the same. They tell me they flush their engines every time they use them.[…]
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Mr. Crappie
For most of the past decade, I’ve talked with 65-year-old Bobby Phillips on a weekly basis, picking his brain for a fishing report I put together for newspapers, magazines and radio.[…]
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5 Spinnerbait Secrets
Outside the occasional marsh bass that falls for my redfish spinnerbait, I can’t tell you the last time I had a really good spinnerbait bite in a lake or river.[…]
Fishing
Your owner’s manual is your friend
If there is anything worse than a complicated sounder or chart plotter, it’s an owner’s manual that doesn’t give you the traction to climb the unit’s learning curve. My[…]
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Stay warm, catch fish in March
This month, I’ll be fishing the Delacroix area, near the east side of New Orleans, and trying to stay warm. The Caernarvon Diversion there lets Mississippi River water run out through the marsh, which has helped rebuild the marsh and caused a big boom to the bass fishing.[…]
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Helping Mother Nature
Television viewers from the 1970s will easily remember the irate words, “It’s not nice to fool Mother Nature,” followed by a peal of thunder and a bolt of lightning.[…]
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Deer of the Year, Part II
Up-and-down temperatures drove some deer hunters crazy, but the weather didn’t seem to affect the big-buck kill. Here are the stories about how some hunters scored big.[…]