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HOME NEWS FISHIN' REPORT CLASSIFIEDS GUESTBOOK DEAR MEMAW ARCHIVES
*** FLASH *** Boucherie: cracklins GONE by 9 *** The big pot is HOME *** Carnival: merci, the roof is half done *** Clocks fall back Sunday Nov 1 *** Gator resting until spring, leave him be *** River gauge: low, Boudreaux's dock is OUT *** FLASH ***
🚧 SITE UNDER CONSTRUCTION SINCE 1999 — PARDON OUR MUD 🚧
TODAY'S WEATHER
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Butte La Rose station
RIVER GAUGE
Bayou Perdu: 7.2 ft
Atchafalaya: 11.8 ft
Boudreaux's dock: underwater
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🎣 T-BOY'S FISHIN' REPORT
Sac-a-lait: BITING (minnow under a cork, around the brush)
Redfish: GOOD (bunched up in the channels)
Catfish: STEADY (fishing pralines, same pralines)
Squirrel: NOT A FISH (pecans behind the school)
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FOR SALE: Pirogue, slight leak, mostly on the left. $40 OBO. See Alcide after church.
LOST: One (1) rooster, answers to "Napoleon." Reward: gumbo.
WANTED: Somebody who knows computers to fix this website. Ask for Clotile.
FREE: Kittens. Found in T-Boy's air boat. Semi-feral, like T-Boy.
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