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Fishing Fathers
Some of the most-important life lessons I ever learned, my dad taught me in boathouses while we fished, usually with the rain pouring down.[…]
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Fishing
Cheap marine batteries actually cost more
Lots of fishermen think they save money when they go to a discount center and plunk down about $50 for each trolling motor battery they need. They did the same thing last year, and they’ll do it again next year.[…]
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Studley Dudley an easy-to-work plug
Speckled trout had better run and hide this summer because, if they don’t, a new topwater lure is sure to give them a mouthful of steel and hard plastic.[…]
Ask Captain Paul
Wanted: waypoints for Black Bay, EI 51
Dear Capt. Paul:
Do you have a file for Black Bay and Breton Sound? If so, I would greatly appreciate a copy.Also, I noticed on the Mapsource Topo map that there is a rise in the sea floor from about 7 feet to 3 feet to 0 feet about 2.75 miles WSW of the Black Tanks at N 29 30.056, W 89 26.915.[…]
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On Top of the World
Chalk it up to being in the right place at the right time.[…]
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Jugheads
Catfishing is one of Louisiana’s most popular pastimes. For generations, we have pursued Mr. Whiskers with traps, nets, yo-yos, rod and reel, and old-fashioned cane pole. Today, more and more fishermen are trying an old, but relatively unknown, method — jugging.[…]
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Life is Hard
The briny deep just off the fertile Louisiana coastline is full of big fish, so much so that its anglers, for many years, spurned the use of live bait to catch prized species such as yellowfin tuna, amberjack, cobia and wahoo.[…]
Bass Fishing
Weightless Wonder
The lure plopped lightly into the water next to some flooded brush, slowly falling toward the bottom.[…]
Currents
Anybody in the market for a bridge?
Naivete’ and childhood go hand-in-hand like two love-sick teen-agers walking through a park. It’s universal: If you’re a kid, you simply haven’t seen enough of society to know what’s real and what isn’t. It’s called childhood ignorance, and it’s a wonderful thing.[…]
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Pontchartrain’s Trout Circle
For most people, bridges are a means.For Barry Weinstein, they are an end.[…]
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Knee-Deep In Sand
On one of those impossibly beautiful speckled trout fishing days in South Louisiana, when the wind was low, the sun gentle, the friends good and when all was right with nature and the boat, I felt, around mid-morning, that familiar tug on my line, and knew we were about to improve on perfection.[…]
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La. coast is getting a mixed bag
There’s good news and not-so-good news. The good news is that wetland restoration projects are going to construction at an extremely rapid rate.[…]
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Manic May
For anglers, May is the month of paradoxes.[…]
Fishing
New onboard chargers extend fishing time
An obscure paragraph of Murphy’s Law says that no matter how many deep-cycle batteries you connect to a trolling motor or how much storage capacity each one has, Mother Nature can hit them with enough wind or current to send you back to the dock early.[…]
Columns
New Cork-Lure a saltwater rage
Taking the Gulf Coast by storm is what a soft-plastic lure from Bimini Bay Outfitters has done since it hit stores in February.[…]
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Benefits vary in canoes, kayaks
Not so long ago and not so far away, puddling, the sport of fly fishing from a paddlecraft, was dominated by canoes, as it had been for centuries. Then came the rise of “kayak fishing,” deemed as the hottest new segment of the outdoors market.[…]