Hunting and Fishing in Maurepas Swamp:  The Sportsman’s Perspective
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Hunting and Fishing in Maurepas Swamp: The Sportsman’s Perspective

Idling slowly among the cypress knees in a shallow-draft boat, one can only imagine what the Maurepas Swamp would have looked like 100 years ago—before the Great Flood of 1927, before the leveeing of the Mississippi River, and before the virgin cypress were cut down and hauled out to be milled for house and boat…

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Maurepas Swamp

The Maurepas Swamp.  I’ve never paddled through it or ridden through it in a boat.  I’ve only driven over it via Highway 55. BUT, it still intrigues me every time I drive over it. So, let’s backtrack to this post I wrote in 2014 that mentions Julia Sims as one of the top influential female…