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Like father, like son

By Steve Bowman
ESPNOutdoors.com

Thursday, December 11, 2008

ALEXANDRIA, La. — Jeff Conella remembers his first duck hunt with clarity. He was 5 years old and his father bundled him up in blankets and laid him down in the bottom of a boat and they headed off to a blind on Catahoula Lake. "It was freezing and I was trying to stay warm,'' Conella said. "When we pulled up to the blind, I peeked out from under the covers and my dad's moustache was covered in ice. I thought 'That has to be the toughest man in the world.'" That was 34 years ago and no ...

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