By Nathan Coker
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Oct 1st, 2024
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article by Dan Chason I miss my times as a kid where we spent our free time fishing, hunting and my other area of expertise; which was hunting for soda bottles. That’s right kids, soda bottles. You see back in those days recycling consisted of turning in the glass soda bottles or “Coke” bottles and...
By Nathan Coker
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Sep 2nd, 2024
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article by Dan Chason I can remember when I started deer hunting at the young age of 15. I borrowed a .35 Whelen rifle and embarked on a mission I knew nothing about. I didn’t belong to a hunting club so my hunting was limited to public WMA’s including D’Arbonne National Refuge. It’s fairly close t...
By Nathan Coker
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Jul 31st, 2024
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article by Dan Chason With hunting season on the horizon, many of us are bush hogging, cleaning lanes and getting ready to plant food plots. This year is a new year and your hunting objectives should include the possibility of change. We hunt the same stands in the same places, using the same metho...
By Nathan Coker
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Jul 1st, 2024
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ARTICLE BY DAN CHASON | PHOTOGRAPH COURTESY OF BILL PETRUS For me, fishing started at a very young age. Early on my main driving force was the competition between my older brother and which was encouraged and driven by our dad. In the early days, my fishing was pretty limited to pan fish or catfish...
By Nathan Coker
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Jun 3rd, 2024
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article by Dan Chason I am told that on my first fishing trip, my stroller rolled into the lake and about flipped my mother out. My dad was a die-hard fisherman. His favorite saying was “Just let me catch one more”. He was a pan fisherman and a cat fisherman. He wasn’t introduced to bass [&hellip...
By Nathan Coker
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May 1st, 2024
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article by Dan Chason This topic could go on to the point it would engulf this entire publication. I have never seen any other area or topic that is so important or so much overlooked or twisted to accommodate one’s own desires. I’ll start with basic hunting etiquette and then move on to fishing. ...
By Nathan Coker
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Apr 1st, 2024
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article by Dan Chason When Caney Creek Lake or “Caney” as referred by locals was formed in 1985, this 5000-acre impoundment had one goal: Create a trophy bass lake in the heart of Jackson Parish. I can remember when it opened and for years it was not uncommon for a line of trailered boats and [&hel...
By Nathan Coker
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Feb 29th, 2024
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article by Dan Chason There is a lot of misinformation, particularly on the internet concerning Concealed Carry in Louisiana. With that there is even more misnomers concerning what, when, where and how you can be a legally armed citizen and exercise your rights to possess a firearm. As a concealed ...
By Nathan Coker
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Jan 31st, 2024
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article by Dan Chason My two least favorite months are February and August. Okay, I said it. I used to love the month of February as it meant pre-spawn bass fishing and deep water crappie fishing, squirrel and rabbit hunting and of course the age old tradition of breaking down deer stands, cameras a...
By Nathan Coker
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Jan 2nd, 2024
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article by Dan Chason I am fortunate to have some very remarkable men that I call my friends. Some I’ve known longer than others but I will say that few men have influenced me more than Scott Self. Scott is a big man, standing 6’6”. He is quite daunting in his physique, but the outside […]...
