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Sixteen Times Four
Having heard more than my fair share of empty boasting and even emptier promises, it was with an exhausted ear that I listened to what my buddy Dennis Tietje was trying to get me to understand over the phone.[…]
Statewide LA
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Right shotgun will hold child’s interest
The first wild game Brent ever took was a dove — and he killed it with a Daisy air rifle. Kell Munson and I were cleaning our limits of birds with more than an hour of daylight left.[…]
Fishing
Gummed carburetors a problem now
It has been two years since Hurricane Katrina devastated our area. It’s hard for me to believe, but I’m still getting a large amount of work that is related to the aftermath of that storm.[…]
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Shell Game
The last time I pulled into Capt. Anthony Randazzo’s Paradise Plus lodge in Buras was about two months before Katrina’s infamous visit. The storm’s wash-through left little more than a shell of the log-frame building.[…]
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Rebounding and Recovering
Going on two years after Hurricane Katrina, fishing in the Amite and Tickfaw river basins is still in recovery mode — notwithstanding a countryside fish-restocking scheme set in motion by the Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries even while department personnel were heroically engaged in search-and-rescue missions in flood-stricken New Orleans.In both areas, return to pre-storm conditions has been painfully slow.[…]
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Out of the Gulf, Part II
When many Americans think of Louisiana today, they visualize a swampy morass covered in cypress trees and Spanish moss.[…]
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Care for fuel now for a happy spring
After launching the center console for the first fishing trip of the season, one minute I was zipping toward the fishing grounds at cruising speed, and the next I was off-plane and barely able to keep the outboard at idle as it labored to turn an erratic 500 RPMs.[…]
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Trip Savers
When Mike Muhlbauer’s line came tight with an abrupt strike, we were certain it was bull red time. A couple of Florida boys with a lot of ambition but just a little time, Muhlbauer and I had determined that we’d fare best at the perennial redfish magnet — Southwest Pass.[…]
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Green Canyon Adventure
It was just after midnight. The boat was drifting calmly more than a hundred miles offshore. Lights from the largest truss and spar oil platform in the world cast an eerie glow across the water.[…]
Fishing
Trouble-free batteries not always best
Full-maintenance marine batteries are usually less expensive and lighter than maintenance-free models with the same amount of cranking power and reserve capacity.[…]
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Mississippi River a September hotspot
My No. 1 pick this month will be the Venice region because usually at this time of year, the Mississippi River’s down, the water has greened up and moving water will be at the edges of the passes.[…]
Ask Captain Paul
What’s procedure for Edge files?
Dear Capt. Paul:
I want to purchase your Vermilion Bay waypoints, but I’m not sure what I need to get them into a Lowrance LCX-28c.[…]
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More wisdom from Puddler Answer Man
An unofficial poll conducted earlier this year on the highly respected website beerdrinkers.com found that puddling is one of the hottest new sports in America, second only to sleep-jogging (like sleep-walking but at a faster pace).[…]
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Opening-Day Doves
Joe DiMaggio once said of opening day, “You look forward to it like a birthday party when you’re a kid. You think something wonderful is going to happen.”[…]
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Cover: September 2007
Don’t have a high-dollar lease to hunt? No problem. The state’s WMAs are looking like really good options in 2007-08.[…]
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Hunt Early, Hunt Often
Artie’s plan sounded like it had merit. Granted, midway through a Doc Fontaine party everything sounds like it has merit.[…]