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This story was posted March
18 to the LouisianaSportsman.
com news feed on March 18.
For the last two years in
March, anglers at Poverty
Point Reservoir State Park
have placed a white crap-
pie into Louisiana’s record
books.
And with (March 18’s)
3.26-pounder, it looks like
Bob Wells just extended the
Delhi reservoir’s hot streak
to three years and counting.
He landed a 17-inch slab
spider-rigging in about
20 feet of water and, pending certification, it will be the No.
4-ranked sac-a-lait in the state fishing record books kept the
Louisiana Outdoor Writers Association.
“When I hooked it and pulled it to the surface, I knew that
was my trophy,” Houma’s Wells said. “I was kind of yelling to
myself. They had like eight boats around me, but those locals
up there — they don’t bat an eye at all that.
“But it was exciting for me because down here we don’t
catch anything 2 pounds barely.”
The catch came during the final day of Wells’ annual week-
long visit to the reservoir, and it started off with a bang shortly
after 8 a.m. when the monster crappie was his first fish of the
morning.
Wells said he had tipped the 1/8-ounce jig with a live minnow.
“I knew that was my big one,” he said. “I had caught the other
ones right at 3 pounds and they were big, but this one was
bigger.”
It was the perfect ending to a very special week that
saw Wells land not only the 3.26-pounder, but a certified
3-pounder and a 3.04-pounder, as well, he said.
All three fish would have potentially cracked the state’s all-
time Top 10 list. ■
Hog-killer
Video shows marksman stacking swine
LouisianaSportsman.com supporting member Capt.
Travis Miller of Millertime Fishing Charters posted this
photo from a mid-March trip to the Cocodrie/Dularge
area. Log onto http://www.louisianasportsman.com/capt-
travis-miller to read the guide’s fishing reports.This story, with an accompanying video, was posted on April 19 on the
LouisianaSportsman.com news feed.
German hunter Franz-Albrecht Oettingen proves his incredible
marksmanship n this video showing him literally stacking up
hogs with a rifle.
Hogs are the
scourge of the South
nowadays, with
swine spreading into
every area and generally causing mayhem. They tear up feeders,
root up trails and create nasty wallows in bottoms — competing
with the deer we all want to hunt.
What we need, according to the attached video, is German
hunter Franz-Albrecht Oettingin to make a round through the
state and put the smackdown on problem populations.
The man, who is a well-known bear hunter in his native Ger-
many, leaves a swath of destruction in his wake whenever he hits
the woods. He proves time and again that he can hit hogs at full
stride with kill shots, stacking them up in quick succession.
The video shows him shooting running hogs through trees,
rechambering and putting down the next and the next and the
next hog passing his position.
Franz’s weapon of choice is a bolt-action rifle with a red-dot
scope, and he is an absolute machine.
And the video includes slow-motion scenes and clips from dif-
ferent angles showing the impact points — many of them head
shots.
It’s an amazing feat of markmanship. So watch as Franz the Hog
Killer puts the smackdown on swine.
You’ll be inspired to get out and practice on a few of those hogs
tearingup your hunting property. ■Big crappie looks to
be No. 4 for state
Watch the vid! Log onto
LouisianaSportsman.com/hog-hunting-marksmanRecord-book slab
caught
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