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Outdoors with Larry Dablemont: A lure full of memories
What memories I have of that stream! I actually guided a few of my float fishing clients on that little river in a 14-foot wooden johnboat..

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Outdoors with Larry Dablemont: Interviewing the director
He gave a good answer, “We’ll think about it.” He won’t of course. He’d have to answer questions they never will answer like, “Why does...

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Outdoors with Larry Dablemont: Long beaks and big eyes
Forty years ago in Arkansas, I dropped a limit of eight woodcocks in an afternoon of quail hunting along the Buffalo River in early December

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Outdoors with Larry Dablemont: A great day at a great place
If you just want to come and see what we have, show up between 9:00 and 3:00 and you might win a valuable painting of the Big Piney River...

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Outdoors with Larry Dablemont: Who wants a used mower?
I’d go back to the pool hall after a haircut, and the old men would all have some kind of smart-aleck remark about how much lower my ears...

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Outdoors with Larry Dablemont: The evils of gambling
On a recent summer float trip, we all agreed to put a quarter on the biggest smallmouth, a quarter on the biggest largemouth...

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Outdoors with Larry Dablemont: Opening date of Big Piney River Nature Center
He is making a donation to the center and will evaluate any outdoor oriented antiques you wish to bring—lures, reels, whatever.

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Outdoors with Larry Dablemont: Dove feathers
You need harvested grain fields for good dove hunting, or a small pond used as a water hole where they come to water in the evening...

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Outdoors with Larry Dablemont: Maybe they ate sheep
A few years ago, Carol Schroeder, from Camdenton, told me that her husband had died from the disease known as Cruetzfeldt-Jacobs disease...

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Outdoors with Larry Dablemont: Hot summer, cool stream
By doing so, you can actually get off away from the world’s problems. Float downstream and find a gravel bar or sand bar to camp on...

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Outdoors with Larry Dablemont: The big bass
I don’t know for sure how big he was, but I saw him very well, and I thought I had him whipped.

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Outdoors with Larry Dablemont: North Arkansas visit
Many carvers do great work but few do great carvings so quickly and do so many of them. It took me an hour to look at all of them.

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Outdoors with Larry Dablemont: 'Come out so we can fine you!'
The agent had no search warrant, so Ramori, who was busy at the time, refused to comply.

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Outdoors with Larry Dablemont: Smoking' out the worms
If you listen to some of the so-called experts, they want you to buy and use a chemical. My advice is, stay away from chemicals!

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Outdoors with Larry Dablemont: Upcoming interviews and 'Supreme Immunity'
We talked about meeting on August 19 so I can learn more about his attitude toward conservation issues in Missouri, and I will report...

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Outdoors with Larry Dablemont: Fishin' with otters
Those otters are bred in captivity and trained to herd fish into the nets of village fishermen.

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Outdoors with Larry Dablemont: The Big Piney Pool Hall rules
My dad and grandfather bought the pool hall in 1957 when I was 10. From then until 1964, I worked there after school...

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Outdoors with Larry Dablemont: Questions from readers
Ozark streams are full of long-nosed Gar, which often grow to five feet in length and up to 25 or 30 pounds.

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Outdoors with Larry Dablemont: A good spot in heaven
He didn’t know about my big question, whether or not a fellow needed to drink water in heaven… and if he did, did he need to pee later?

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Outdoors with Larry Dablemont: An odd duck
Wood ducks are odd ducks, because they nest in hollow trees rather than in a marshy, reed-covered wetland habitat...

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