Bass Fishing
Tidal Tactics
A half dozen great egrets and as many blue herons were scattered along the edge of a small cove, and every five minutes or so, they would take a few steps back.[…]
Statewide LA
Currents
For me, election hinges on two issues
When I’m looking at candidates, trying to decide who should get my vote in any election, there are two things I examine that are more important to me than any others.[…]
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Creeped Out
Lying with our backs against the side of an Arkansas ditch huffing and puffing trying to catch our breath is where I remember my buddy’s words that offered no relief to the pains that would later become that night’s leg and body cramps.[…]
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On the Edge
4:05 p.m. — I down the last sip of my coffee. In no hurry, I notice my brother is getting antsy. Who wouldn’t? […]
News Breaker
New restrictions on canvasbacks and scaup for upcoming waterfowl season
With the first waves of fall migrant ducks and geese starting to show up in Louisiana, the Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries (LDWF) is reminding eager hunters about the changes for the 2008-09 migratory waterfowl season.[…]
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Gettin’ Jiggy With It
I’m not sure what woke me first, the alarm clock or the repetitive ligI’m not sure what woke me first, the alarm clock or the repetitive lightning and thunder. […]
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SCARs run deep
Shane Johnson had found a magical hunting spot, and couldn’t wait to set up on it.“There was this scrape that was about 6 feet around,” Johnson said.[…]
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Cover: October 2008
Mandeville resident A.B. York arrowed this 171-inch beast last November in East Carroll Parish.[…]
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Central Line
The hotspots for speckled trout fishing seem to be fairly well-known. The marshes of Terrebonne, Lafourche, Jefferson and St. Bernard parishes have oodles of trout, mostly modest-sized but making up in number for what they lack in size.[…]
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Pearl River Rebound
Hurricane Andrew did it to Sherburne WMA in 1992 — barreled through and leveled it. This saved the LDWF millions.[…]
Columns
Optima Elite .45-70 will ‘wallop’ deer
The late, great Robert Ruark wrote for many of the big outdoor mags in the 1950s and ’60s, and began a series of columns that would become one of the all-time hunting classics, entitled “The Old Man and the Boy.”[…]
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Cashing in at the Coast
Frank Tullar was the guy I hung out with in high school. Of course, the fact that I dated his sister might have been part of it. Nonetheless, we were friends, and his sister didn’t hunt squirrels.[…]
Fishing
Take trip to battery fountain of youth
About 20 years ago, a company called PulseTech Products Corporation developed a way to cancel a process that prematurely “ages” lead-acid batteries, rendering most of them useless long before their components actually wear out.[…]
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Flounder Funnel
I’ve been known to drive quite a few miles to get on a good flounder bite. That’s why I immediately picked up my cell phone when I saw a recent picture on the fishing report page at www.lasmag.com.[…]
Bass Fishing
14-inch limit wastes Basin bass
Randy Lanctot, the esteemed executive director of the Louisiana Wildlife Federation, once told me that if outdoorsmen aren’t careful, they’ll conserve themselves right out of existence.[…]
Columns
Crevalle jacks hungry, hard-fighting
In Louisiana, where the desirability of a sportfish is measured almost as much by its culinary attributes as its fighting qualities, the crevalle jack just doesn’t get any respect.[…]