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Outdoors with Larry Dablemont: Pork rinds and blackberries
I caught several nice Kentucky and largemouth that day and took the same procedure to Bull Shoals Lake to experience success there.
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Outdoors with Larry Dablemont: A floater from the fifties
So here I am with a pair of old antique johnboats that I have to do something with.
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Outdoors with Larry Dablemont: Bobbers!
Back then, summer ponds weren’t all filled with the scum and algae you see today. The water there in the shade of a big oak tree was dark and deep, full of bluegill and bass and a few small catfish.
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Outdoors with Larry Dablemont: An incident at Clevenger Cove
I couldn’t cast it a long way with that old Shakespeare reel and braided line but just that once it went back a little farther than intended, and the line draped over the end of that bush.
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Outdoors with Larry Dablemont: Three heavenly lakes
For a lot of reasons, the place called S of O was the greatest thing that ever happened to me.
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Outdoors with Larry Dablemont: Filled with suckers
Fighting the white bass for a few hours was fun, but I would have given a good rebel lure for a big treble hook. Those suckers that we hillbillies have always referred to as ‘yaller suckers’ would have been lots of fun with trebles and a grabbin’ outfit
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Outdoors with Larry Dablemont: Fishing an Ozark river
If you look out into the river current when the suckers are schooling before the spawn and you have a treble hook out there, you can’t see it very well.
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Outdoors with Larry Dablemont: Walleye time
If there's plenty of water, they move up the tributaries and streams at the slightest warming of the currents that call them.
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Outdoors with Larry Dablemont: An owl before dawn
My grandfather, who always lived out in the woods or on the creek somewhere, sawed the top out of medium-sized trees up about twenty feet from the ground, to create a flat landing place for the great horned owl, and then would set a steel trap there, and bait it with a wood rat or small squirrel.
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Outdoors with Larry Dablemont: Firewood in abundance
On upper sections, nearly three quarters of the river, there are shoals so shallow canoes can’t pass through or over without dragging.
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Outdoors with Larry Dablemont: The White and the browns
Browns are not native to the United States. They have been stocked in the White and no one would think they could successfully spawn there, but when the water is high this time of the winter, they actually do, to a lesser degree, but not to any great extent.
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Outdoors with Larry Dablemont: Visiting the Old Homeplace Covey
Luke and Sadie aren’t just good, they are great! They both sat in my boat while we motored across Truman Lake to a hard-to-reach spot where Freckles and I found quail years ago.
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Outdoors with Larry Dablemont: A haven
In the woodlands, where giant oaks and hickories and cedars are as big as any I have ever seen anywhere, I find scrapes and rubs freshly made by buck deer.
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Outdoors with Larry Dablemont: Canadian adventure
With the pain hammering me with each heartbeat, Christy took over, and drove me back to the border, to International Falls, Minnesota. There was no doubt what was happening; the pain was tremendous.
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Outdoors with Larry Dablemont: What sounds like a trumpet?
That flock of eleven is something I will not forget seeing.
We didn’t get a deer that afternoon; in fact, we never even saw
one. We did see a wild gobbler and a half-grown wild pig, coal black,
and hard to see in the underbrush.
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Outdoors with Larry Dablemont: Geese aplenty
Floating down the river in November and December of the 1960s as a kid with my dad, hunting mallards and wood ducks from our old johnboat, if we saw a few Canada geese on the river and actually had a chance to bring one home, it was a never to be forgotten experience.
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Outdoors with Larry Dablemont: Adders and vipers
The terms "spreading adder" or "hog-nosed viper" are common names for the harmless little snake, given to them by Ozark rural people.
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Outdoors with Larry Dablemont: What about wild turkeys?
We talked about how, years back, we would see eight or ten strutting gobblers and hens in March and April back in the reaches of green fields along timber edges.
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Outdoors with Larry Dablemont: Don’t hunt fall turkeys
Bow hunting should not be very high on any outdoorsman’s list in September unless he doesn’t fish at all or do anything else but deer hunt. It is a poor time to skin and hang a deer because it is always too warm. The dead of winter is bow-hunting time.
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Outdoors with Larry Dablemont: The lowdown on doves
If it has been written once that dove hunting is a good way to get a youngster the chance to hunt and experience a day outdoors, it has been written a million times.
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