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(Copyright 2026, Emmerich Newspapers, Inc.) Wyatt Emmerich, left, and Kemal Sanli enjoy exploring via canoe in this Enterprise-Journal file photo.
Leather Britches Classic: This column originally ran Nov. 5, 2000:
As I rounded a bend on north-central Louisiana’s Little Bayou D’Arbonne, I saw a man and woman in a johnboat, fishing. The man’s pole began to bounce, and he lifted a fine white perch from the leaf-dappled water.